
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 History
2026
Hellfire as Jeremiah
2026Fate
2025The Wrecker as Dante
2025Milarepa as Marpa
2025Laws of Man as Cassidy Whittaker
2024Spread as Frank Ferretti
2024Paradox Effect as Silvio
2024The Tattooist of Auschwitz as Lali Sokolov (Old)
2024Joe Baby as Randall Kane
2024Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film as Self (archive footage)
2023Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self
2023Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between as Self
2023The Baker as Merchant
2023100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
2022National Treasure: Edge of History as Peter Sadusky
2022Mike as Cus D'Amato
2021Lansky as Meyer Lansky
2021Blood on the Crown as General Hunter Blair
2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020Fatima as Professor Nichols
202011 Colours of the Bird as Self
2019Esau as Abraham
2019The Irishman as Angelo Bruno
2019The Painted Bird as Priest
2019See You Soon as Billy
2018The Last Man as Noe
2018Isle of Dogs as Gondo (voice)
2018First We Take Brooklyn as Anatoly
2018Lies We Tell as Demi
2017Madame as Bob Fredericks
2016The Comedian as Mac Schiltz
2016Chosen as Papi
2015The Ridiculous 6 as Smiley
2015Outlaws as The Director
2015Behind the White Glasses as Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Youth as Mick Boyle
2015Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
2014By the Gun as Salvatore Vitaglia
2014Rio, I Love You as O Ator (segment "O Milagre")
2014Two Men in Town as Bill Agati
2014The Grand Budapest Hotel as Ludwig
2014Gandhi of the Month as Edward Baker
2013The Congress as Al
2013A Farewell to Fools as Father Johanis
2012Fatal Honeymoon as Tommy Thomas
2012Moonrise Kingdom as Commander Pierce
2010The Last Godfather as Don Carini
2010Little Fockers as Randy Weir
2010A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Duke White
2009Wrong Turn at Tahoe as Nino
2009The Ministers as Joseph Bruno
2009Inglourious Basterds as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
2008Life on Mars as Lt. Gene Hunt
2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Peter Sadusky
2007My Sexiest Year as Zowie
2007One Last Dance as Terrtano
2006Arthur and the Invisibles as Miro (voice)
2006The Stone Merchant as The Merchant
2006A Crime as Roger Culkin
2006The Path to 9/11 as John O'Neill
2005The Outsider as Self
2005Shadows in the Sun as Weldon Parish
2005Be Cool as Nick Carr
2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio
2004National Treasure as Peter Sadusky
2004Puerto Vallarta Squeeze as Walter McGrane
2004This Year in Czernowitz as Himself
2003Chasing The Elephant as The Mystery Man
2003Dreaming of Julia as Che
2003The Galíndez File as Edward Robards
2003Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003Who Killed the Idea? as Private Investigator
2003Crime Spree as Frankie Zammeti
2003A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2003The John Garfield Story as Self
2003Ginostra as Matt Benson
2002Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self (archive footage)
2002Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
2002Beeper as Zolo
2002Red Dragon as Jack Crawford
2002Nowhere as El Gringo
2002V Graham Norton as Self
2002Taking Sides as Steve Arnold
2001The Grey Zone as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
2001Nailed as Tony Romano
2000Little Nicky as Dad
2000Presence of Mind as The Master
2000Prince of Central Park as The Guardian
2000Viper as Leone
2000U-571 as CPO Henry Klough
2000Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
2000The Ten Commandments of Creativity as Self
1999Holy Smoke as PJ Waters
1999Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
1999Three Seasons as James Hager
1998Gunslinger's Revenge as Johnny Lowen
1998Shadrach as Vernon
1998Finding Graceland as Elvis
1998Lulu on the Bridge as Izzy Maurer
1998Full Tilt Boogie as Self
1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
1997FairyTale: A True Story as Harry Houdini
1997Cop Land as Ray Donlan
1997The View as Self
1997City of Industry as Roy Egan
1996The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self
1996Head Above Water as George
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1996From Dusk Till Dawn as Jacob Fuller
1995Get Shorty as Himself (Uncredited)
1995Ulysses' Gaze as A
1995Clockers as Det. Rocco Klein
1995Blue in the Face as Auggie Wren
1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)
1995Smoke as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
1994Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
1994Imaginary Crimes as Ray Weiler
1994Somebody to Love as Harry Harrelson
1994Pulp Fiction as The Wolf
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Monkey Trouble as Azro
1994Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. White (archive footage)
1993Dangerous Game as Eddie Israel
1993The Young Americans as John Harris
1993Rising Sun as Lt. Tom Graham
1993The Piano as George Baines
1993Point of No Return as Victor the Cleaner
1993Inside 'The Piano' as Self
1992Bad Lieutenant as LT
1992Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
1992Sister Act as Vince LaRocca
1991Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
1991Thelma & Louise as Hal
1991Mortal Thoughts as Det. John Woods
1990Drums of Fire as Sandoval
1990The Two Jakes as Julius "Jake" Berman
1990Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
1990Two Evil Eyes as Roderick Usher
1990White Hunter as Thomas
1989Imagining America
1989The January Man as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
1989This Ain't Bebop
1988Dear Gorbachev as Nikolaj Bucharin
1988Hello Actors Studio as Self
1988Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self
1988The Last Temptation of Christ as Judas
1988Down Where the Buffalo Go as Carl
1987Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Donald Jacques (voice)
1987The Pick-up Artist as Alonzo Scolara
1987Blindside as Penfield Gruber
1986The Inquiry as Ponzio Pilato
1986The American Bride as Sacha
1986The Men's Club as Solly Berliner
1986Wise Guys as Bobby DiLea
1986Off Beat as Mickey
1986Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Frankie
1985Vanessa in the Garden as Byron Sullivan
1985Star Knight as Klever
1985Baciami Strega
1985Amazing Stories as Byron Sullivan
1984Dream One as Mr. Legend
1984Falling in Love as Ed Lasky
1984La bella Otero as Ernest Jurgens
1983A Stone in the Mouth as The fugitive
1983Exposed as Rivas
1983Copkiller as Lt. Fred O'Connor
1982The Night of Varennes as Thomas Paine
1982The Border as Cat
1982American Playhouse as (segment "This Ain't Bebop")
1980Bad Timing as Inspector Netusil
1980Saturn 3 as Benson
1980Death Watch as Roddy
1979Eagle's Wing as Henry
1978Fingers as Jimmy Fingers
1978Blue Collar as Jerry Bartowski
1977The Duellists as Gabriel Feraud
1976Welcome to L.A. as Ken Hood
1976Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
1976Mother, Jugs & Speed as Speed
1976Taxi Driver as Sport
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975That's the Way of the World as Coleman Buckmaster
1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Ben Eberhardt
1974Virginia Hill as Bugsy Siegel
1973Kojak as Jerry Talaba
1973Mean Streets as Charlie Cappa
1973Pueblo as Seaman (uncredited)
1971Great Performances as Jerry
1971A Memory of Two Mondays as Jerry
1970Brewster McCloud as The Photographer (uncredited)
1970Street Scenes 1970 as Self
1968Who's That Knocking at My Door as J.R.
1967Omnibus as Self
1967Reflections in a Golden Eye as Soldier (uncredited)
1965The F.B.I. as Ernie
1965Hogan's Heroes as German Soldier (uncredited)
1953The Oscars as Self
—Live Fast, Die Laughing
—The Letter as Finn O'Brien
—Theirs
—Hard Matter as Eion
—Paradise Inc. as Hubert Humbolt








