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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-05-13 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Harvey Keitel

Biography:

Harvey 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.

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Known For

Acting

2025

Milarepa as Marpa
Laws of Man as Cassidy Whittaker

2024

Joe Baby as Randall Kane
Spread as Frank Ferretti
Paradox Effect as Silvio
Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as (archive footage)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz as Lali Sokolov (Old)

2023

2022

Mike as Cus D'Amato

2021

Lansky as Meyer Lansky
Blood on the Crown as General Hunter Blair

2020

Fatima as Professor Nichols

2019

QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
The Irishman as Angelo Bruno
Esau as Abraham
See You Soon as Billy

2018

Isle of Dogs as Gondo (voice)
Lies We Tell as Demi

2017

Madame as Bob Fredericks

2016

Chosen as Papi
The Comedian as Mac Schiltz

2015

2014

Two Men in Town as Bill Agati
By the Gun as Salvatore Vitaglia
Rio, I Love You as O Ator (segment "O Milagre")
Gandhi of the Month as Edward Baker

2013

A Farewell to Fools as Father Johanis

2012

Fatal Honeymoon as Tommy Thomas
Moonrise Kingdom as Commander Pierce

2010

Little Fockers as Randy Weir
The Last Godfather as Don Carini

2009

The Ministers as Joseph Bruno
Inglourious Basterds as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)

2008

Life on Mars as Lt. Gene Hunt

2007

2006

A Crime as Roger Culkin
The Stone Merchant as The Merchant
The Path to 9/11 as John O'Neill

2005

Be Cool as Nick Carr
Shadows in the Sun as Weldon Parish
The Outsider as Self

2004

2003

2002

2001

The Grey Zone as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
Nailed as Tony Romano

2000

U-571 as CPO Henry Klough
Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
Presence of Mind as The Master
Prince of Central Park as The Guardian
Viper as Leone

1999

Three Seasons as James Hager
Holy Smoke as PJ Waters

1998

1997

Cop Land as Ray Donlan
FairyTale: A True Story as Harry Houdini
City of Industry as Roy Egan
The View as Self

1996

1995

Smoke as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
Clockers as Det. Rocco Klein
Blue in the Face as Auggie Wren
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)
Get Shorty as Himself (Uncredited)

1994

1993

The Piano as George Baines
Point of No Return as Victor the Cleaner
Rising Sun as Lt. Tom Graham
The Young Americans as John Harris
Dangerous Game as Eddie Israel

1992

Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
Sister Act as Vince LaRocca

1991

Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
Mortal Thoughts as Det. John Woods

1990

The Two Jakes as Julius "Jake" Berman
Two Evil Eyes as Roderick Usher
Drums of Fire as Sandoval
White Hunter as Thomas

1989

The January Man as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey

1988

1987

The Pick-up Artist as Alonzo Scolara
Blindside as Penfield Gruber
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Donald Jacques (voice)

1986

Wise Guys as Bobby DiLea
The Men's Club as Solly Berliner
The Inquiry as Ponzio Pilato
Off Beat as Mickey

1985

Vanessa in the Garden as Byron Sullivan
Star Knight as Klever
Amazing Stories as Byron Sullivan

1984

Falling in Love as Ed Lasky
Dream One as Mr. Legend
La bella Otero as Ernest Jurgens

1983

Copkiller as Lt. Fred O'Connor
Exposed as Rivas
A Stone in the Mouth as The fugitive

1982

The Border as Cat
The Night of Varennes as Thomas Paine

1980

Bad Timing as Inspector Netusil
Saturn 3 as Benson
Death Watch as Roddy

1979

Eagle's Wing as Henry

1978

Blue Collar as Jerry Bartowski
Fingers as Jimmy Fingers

1977

The Duellists as Gabriel Feraud

1976

1975

That's the Way of the World as Coleman Buckmaster
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974

1973

Mean Streets as Charlie Cappa
Pueblo as Seaman (uncredited)
Kojak as Jerry Talaba

1971

1970

Brewster McCloud as The Photographer (uncredited)

1968

1967

Reflections in a Golden Eye as Soldier (uncredited)

1965

The F.B.I. as Ernie
Hogan's Heroes as German Soldier (uncredited)

1953

The Oscars as Self

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Production

2003

Dreaming of Julia as Producer

2001

The Grey Zone as Executive Producer

1999

Three Seasons as Executive Producer

1995

Blue in the Face as Executive Producer

1992

Reservoir Dogs as Co-Producer