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Harvey Keitel
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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.
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Pulp Fiction
As The Wolf
Reservoir Dogs
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The Irishman
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Thelma & Louise
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The Piano
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The Duellists
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The Grey Zone
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Taxi Driver
As Sport
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
When the Camera Refuses to Blink
A chain of films about people who have crossed a line, and the directors who hold the lens steady. No absolution, no easy exits, only the long look at what we a...
7 films
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul
From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
No Map. No Plan. Just Go
From American Honey to Nomadland, a journey through films where the open road promises freedom, and sometimes delivers it.
8 films
Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
The Open Road Reclaimed - Women Who Drive Away
From the dust of the American West to the neon of Tokyo, these eight films trace a lineage of women who take to the road not to flee, but to find themselves.
5 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024 · Lali Sokolov (Old)
Lansky
2021 · Meyer Lansky
The Irishman
2019 · Angelo Bruno
See You Soon
2019 · Billy
The Last Man
2018 · Noe
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Gondo (voice)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Ludwig
Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · Commander Pierce
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Sadusky
Be Cool
2005 · Nick Carr
National Treasure
2004 · Sadusky
Red Dragon
2002 · Jack Crawford
Taking Sides
2002 · Steve Arnold
The Grey Zone
2001 · SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 · Izzy Maurer
Cop Land
1997 · Ray Donlan
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 · Jacob Fuller
Blue in the Face
1995 · Auggie Wren
Smoke
1995 · Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
Pulp Fiction
1994 · The Wolf
The Piano
1993 · George Baines
Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
Sister Act
1992 · Vince LaRocca
Bugsy
1991 · Mickey Cohen
Thelma & Louise
1991 · Hal
The January Man
1989 · Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Judas
Off Beat
1986 · Mickey
The Duellists
1977 · Gabriel Feraud
Taxi Driver
1976 · Sport
Mean Streets
1973 · Charlie Cappa
A Memory of Two Mondays
1971 · Jerry