Harvey Keitel
Acting
- Born:
- 1939-05-13
- Place of birth:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Harvey Johannes Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019). Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.
Known For
Filmography
Fate
Hellfire
Kill Code
The Letter
The Wrecker
Milarepa
Laws of Man
Spread
Paradox Effect
Joe Baby
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
The Baker
100 Years of Warner Bros.
National Treasure: Edge of History
Mike
Lansky
Blood on the Crown
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Fatima
11 Colours of the Bird
Esau
The Irishman
The Painted Bird
See You Soon
The Last Man
Isle of Dogs
First We Take Brooklyn
Lies We Tell
Madame
The Comedian
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Chosen
The Ridiculous 6
Outlaws
Behind the White Glasses
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Youth
Scorsese's GoodFellas
By the Gun
Rio, I Love You
Two Men in Town
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gandhi of the Month
The Congress
A Farewell to Fools
Fatal Honeymoon
Moonrise Kingdom
The Last Godfather
Little Fockers
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
The Ministers
Inglourious Basterds
Life on Mars
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
My Sexiest Year
One Last Dance
Arthur and the Invisibles
The Stone Merchant
A Crime
The Path to 9/11
The Outsider
Shadows in the Sun
Be Cool
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
National Treasure
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
This Year in Czernowitz
Chasing The Elephant
Dreaming of Julia
The Galíndez File
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Crime Spree
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The John Garfield Story
Ginostra
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
Beeper
Red Dragon
Nowhere
V Graham Norton
Taking Sides
The Grey Zone
Adam Sandler Goes to Hell
Nailed
Little Nicky
Presence of Mind
Prince of Central Park
Viper
U-571
Fail Safe
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Holy Smoke
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Three Seasons
Gunslinger's Revenge
Shadrach
Finding Graceland
Lulu on the Bridge
Full Tilt Boogie
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
FairyTale: A True Story
Cop Land
The View
City of Industry
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Head Above Water
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
From Dusk Till Dawn
Get Shorty
Ulysses' Gaze
Clockers
Blue in the Face
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Smoke
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
Imaginary Crimes
Somebody to Love
Pulp Fiction
Inside the Actors Studio
Monkey Trouble
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
Dangerous Game
The Young Americans
Rising Sun
The Piano
Point of No Return
Inside 'The Piano'
Bad Lieutenant
Reservoir Dogs
Blast 'Em
Sister Act
Bugsy
Thelma & Louise
Mortal Thoughts
Drums of Fire
The Two Jakes
Martin Scorsese Directs
Two Evil Eyes
White Hunter
Imagining America
The January Man
This Ain't Bebop
Dear Gorbachev
Hello Actors Studio
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ
Down Where the Buffalo Go
The Play on One
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
The Pick-up Artist
Blindside
The Inquiry
The American Bride
The Ellen Burstyn Show
The Men's Club
Wise Guys
Off Beat
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
Vanessa in the Garden
Star Knight
Baciami Strega
Amazing Stories
Dream One
Falling in Love
La bella Otero
A Stone in the Mouth
Exposed
Copkiller
That Night of Varennes
The Border
American Playhouse
Bad Timing
Saturn 3
Death Watch
Eagle's Wing
Fingers
Blue Collar
The Duellists
Welcome to L.A.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Taxi Driver
Saturday Night Live
That's the Way of the World
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Virginia Hill
Kojak
Mean Streets
Pueblo
Brewster McCloud
A Memory of Two Mondays
Great Performances
Street Scenes 1970
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Omnibus
The F.B.I.
Hogan's Heroes
The Oscars
Live Fast, Die Laughing
Paradise Inc.
Theirs
Untitled Harvey Keitel/Daphna Kastner Film
Minute Mark
Pawn Shop
The Method