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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Primarily2025 Hard Matter as Eion
2025 The Wrecker
2025 Milarepa as Marpa
2025 Hellfire as Jeremiah
2025 The Letter as Finn O'Brien
2025 Fate
2025 Paradise Inc. as Hubert Humbolt
2025 Theirs
2025 Laws of Man as Cassidy Whittaker
2024 Spread as Frank Ferretti
2024 Paradox Effect as Silvio
2024 Joe Baby as Randall Kane
2024 Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film as Self (archive footage)
2024 Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as (archive footage)
2023 Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self
2023 Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between as Self
2023 The Baker as Merchant
2021 Lansky as Meyer Lansky
2021 Blood on the Crown as General Hunter Blair
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 Fatima as Professor Nichols
2020 11 Colours of the Bird as Self
2019 Esau as Abraham
2019 The Irishman as Angelo Bruno
2019 QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
2019 The Painted Bird as Priest
2019 See You Soon as Billy
2018 The Last Man as Noe
2018 Isle of Dogs as Gondo (voice)
2018 First We Take Brooklyn as Anatoly
2018 Lies We Tell as Demi
2017 Madame as Bob Fredericks
2016 The Comedian as Mac Schiltz
2016 Chosen as Papi
2015 The Ridiculous 6 as Smiley
2015 Outlaws as The Director
2015 Behind the White Glasses as Self
2015 Youth as Mick Boyle
2015 Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
2014 By the Gun as Salvatore Vitaglia
2014 Rio, I Love You as O Ator (segment "O Milagre")
2014 Two Men in Town as Bill Agati
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Ludwig
2014 Gandhi of the Month as Edward Baker
2013 The Congress as Al
2013 A Farewell to Fools as Father Johanis
2012 Fatal Honeymoon as Tommy Thomas
2012 Moonrise Kingdom as Commander Pierce
2010 The Last Godfather as Don Carini
2010 Little Fockers as Randy Weir
2010 A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Duke White
2009 Wrong Turn at Tahoe as Nino
2009 The Ministers as Joseph Bruno
2009 Inglourious Basterds as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Peter Sadusky
2007 My Sexiest Year as Zowie
2007 One Last Dance as Terrtano
2006 Arthur and the Invisibles as Miro
2006 The Stone Merchant as The Merchant
2006 A Crime as Roger Culkin
2005 The Outsider as Self
2005 Shadows in the Sun as Weldon Parish
2005 Be Cool as Nick Carr
2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio
2004 National Treasure as Peter Sadusky
2004 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze as Walter McGrane
2004 This Year in Czernowitz as Himself
2003 Chasing The Elephant as The Mystery Man
2003 Dreaming of Julia as Che Producer
2003 The GalÃndez File as Edward Robards
2003 Who Killed the Idea? as Private Investigator
2003 Crime Spree as Frankie Zammeti
2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Himself
2003 The John Garfield Story as Self
2003 Ginostra as Matt Benson
2002 Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self (archive footage)
2002 Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
2002 Beeper as Zolo
2002 Red Dragon as Jack Crawford
2002 Nowhere as El Gringo
2002 Taking Sides as Steve Arnold
2001 The Grey Zone as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt Executive Producer
2001 Nailed as Tony Romano
2000 Little Nicky as Dad
2000 Presence of Mind as The Master
2000 Prince of Central Park as The Guardian
2000 Viper as Leone
2000 U-571 as CPO Henry Klough
2000 Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
2000 The Ten Commandments of Creativity as Self
1999 Holy Smoke as PJ Waters
1999 Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
1999 Three Seasons as James Hager Executive Producer
1998 Gunslinger's Revenge as Johnny Lowen
1998 Shadrach as Vernon
1998 Finding Graceland as Elvis
1998 Lulu on the Bridge as Izzy Maurer
1998 Full Tilt Boogie as Self
1998 Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
1997 FairyTale: A True Story as Harry Houdini
1997 Cop Land as Ray Donlan
1997 City of Industry as Roy Egan
1996 The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self
1996 Head Above Water as George
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn as Jacob Fuller
1995 Get Shorty as Himself (Uncredited)
1995 Ulysses' Gaze as A
1995 Blue in the Face as Auggie Wren Executive Producer
1995 Clockers as Det. Rocco Klein
1995 Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)
1995 Smoke as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
1994 Imaginary Crimes as Ray Weiler
1994 Somebody to Love as Harry Harrelson
1994 Pulp Fiction as The Wolf
1994 Monkey Trouble as Azro
1994 Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. White (archive footage)
1993 Dangerous Game as Eddie Israel
1993 The Young Americans as John Harris
1993 Rising Sun as Lt. Tom Graham
1993 The Piano as George Baines
1993 Point of No Return as Victor the Cleaner
1993 Inside 'The Piano' as Self
1992 Bad Lieutenant as LT
1992 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick Co-Producer
1992 Sister Act as Vince LaRocca
1991 Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
1991 Thelma & Louise as Hal
1991 Mortal Thoughts as Det. John Woods
1990 Drums of Fire as Sandoval
1990 The Two Jakes as Julius "Jake" Berman
1990 Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
1990 Two Evil Eyes as Roderick Usher
1990 White Hunter as Thomas
1989 Imagining America
1989 The January Man as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
1989 This Ain't Bebop
1988 Dear Gorbachev as Nikolaj Bucharin
1988 Hello Actors Studio as Self
1988 Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ as Judas
1988 Down Where the Buffalo Go as Carl
1987 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Donald Jacques (voice)
1987 The Pick-up Artist as Alonzo Scolara
1987 Blindside as Penfield Gruber
1986 The Inquiry as Ponzio Pilato
1986 The American Bride as Sacha
1986 The Men's Club as Solly Berliner
1986 Wise Guys as Bobby DiLea
1986 Off Beat as Mickey
1986 Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Frankie
1985 Vanessa in the Garden as Byron Sullivan
1985 Star Knight as Klever
1985 Baciami Strega
1984 Dream One as Mr. Legend
1984 Falling in Love as Ed Lasky
1984 La bella Otero as Ernest Jurgens
1983 A Stone in the Mouth as The fugitive
1983 Exposed as Rivas
1983 Copkiller as Lt. Fred O'Connor
1982 The Night of Varennes as Thomas Paine
1982 The Border as Cat
1980 Bad Timing as Inspector Netusil
1980 Saturn 3 as Benson
1980 Death Watch as Roddy
1979 Eagle's Wing as Henry
1978 Fingers as Jimmy Fingers
1978 Blue Collar as Jerry Bartowski
1977 The Duellists as Gabriel Feraud
1976 Welcome to L.A. as Ken Hood
1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
1976 Mother, Jugs & Speed as Speed
1976 Taxi Driver as Sport
1975 That's the Way of the World as Coleman Buckmaster
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Ben Eberhardt, Ben
1974 Virginia Hill as Bugsy Siegel
1973 Mean Streets as Charlie Cappa
1973 Pueblo as Seaman (uncredited)
1971 A Memory of Two Mondays as Jerry
1970 Brewster McCloud as The Photographer (uncredited)
1970 Street Scenes as Self
1968 Who's That Knocking at My Door as J.R.
1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye as Soldier (uncredited)
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