Harvey Keitel

Born: 1939-05-13 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Hellfire as Jeremiah
Kill Code as Eion
Fate

2025

The Wrecker as Dante
Milarepa as Marpa
Laws of Man as Cassidy Whittaker
The Letter as Finn O'Brien

2024

The Tattooist of Auschwitz as Lali Sokolov (Old)
Paradox Effect as Silvio
Joe Baby as Randall Kane
Spread as Frank Ferretti
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film as Self (archive footage)

2020

Fatima as Professor Nichols
11 Colours of the Bird as Self

2019

The Irishman as Angelo Bruno
The Painted Bird as Priest
See You Soon as Billy
Esau as Abraham

2018

Isle of Dogs as Gondo (voice)
The Last Man as Noe
Lies We Tell as Demi
First We Take Brooklyn as Anatoly

2017

Madame as Bob Fredericks

2016

The Comedian as Mac Schiltz
Chosen as Papi
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A as Self

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
The Ridiculous 6 as Smiley
Youth as Mick Boyle
Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
Outlaws as The Director
Behind the White Glasses as Self

2014

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

2013

The Congress as Al
A Farewell to Fools as Father Johanis

2012

Moonrise Kingdom as Commander Pierce
Fatal Honeymoon as Tommy Thomas

2010

Little Fockers as Randy Weir
The Last Godfather as Don Carini
A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Duke White

2009

Inglourious Basterds as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
Wrong Turn at Tahoe as Nino
The Ministers as Joseph Bruno

2008

Life on Mars as Lt. Gene Hunt

2007

National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Peter Sadusky
One Last Dance as Terrtano
My Sexiest Year as Zowie

2006

Arthur and the Invisibles as Miro (voice)
The Path to 9/11 as John O'Neill
A Crime as Roger Culkin
The Stone Merchant as The Merchant

2005

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

2004

National Treasure as Peter Sadusky
The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze as Walter McGrane
This Year in Czernowitz as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
Crime Spree as Frankie Zammeti
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
The John Garfield Story as Self
Dreaming of Julia as Che
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Ginostra as Matt Benson
Who Killed the Idea? as Private Investigator
The Galíndez File as Edward Robards
Chasing The Elephant as The Mystery Man

2002

V Graham Norton as Self
Red Dragon as Jack Crawford
Beeper as Zolo
Taking Sides as Steve Arnold
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self (archive footage)
Nowhere as El Gringo
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film

2001

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

2000

U-571 as CPO Henry Klough
Little Nicky as Dad
Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
Prince of Central Park as The Guardian
Presence of Mind as The Master
The Ten Commandments of Creativity as Self
Viper as Leone

1999

Holy Smoke as PJ Waters
Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
Three Seasons as James Hager

1998

Lulu on the Bridge as Izzy Maurer
Full Tilt Boogie as Self
Shadrach as Vernon
Finding Graceland as Elvis
Gunslinger's Revenge as Johnny Lowen
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self

1997

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

1996

From Dusk Till Dawn as Jacob Fuller
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
Head Above Water as George
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self

1995

Get Shorty as Harvey Keitel (uncredited)
Smoke as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
Clockers as Det. Rocco Klein
Ulysses' Gaze as A
Blue in the Face as Auggie Wren
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)

1994

Pulp Fiction as The Wolf
Monkey Trouble as Azro
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
Somebody to Love as Harry Harrelson
Imaginary Crimes as Ray Weiler
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. White (archive footage)

1993

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

1992

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

1991

Thelma & Louise as Hal
Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
Mortal Thoughts as Det. John Woods

1990

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

1989

The January Man as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
Imagining America
This Ain't Bebop

1988

The Play on One as Carl
The Last Temptation of Christ as Judas
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ as Self
Hello Actors Studio as Self
Down Where the Buffalo Go as Carl
Dear Gorbachev as Nikolaj Bucharin

1987

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

1986

The Ellen Burstyn Show as Frank Tanner
Wise Guys as Bobby DiLea
The Men's Club as Solly Berliner
Off Beat as Mickey
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Frankie
The American Bride as Sacha
The Inquiry as Ponzio Pilato

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

American Playhouse as (segment "This Ain't Bebop")
The Border as Cat
That Night of Varennes as Thomas Paine

1980

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

1979

Eagle's Wing as Henry

1978

Blue Collar as Jerry Bartowski
Fingers as Jimmy Fingers

1977

The Duellists as Gabriel Feraud

1976

Taxi Driver as Sport
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
Mother, Jugs & Speed as Speed
Welcome to L.A. as Ken Hood

1975

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

1974

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Ben Eberhardt
Virginia Hill as Bugsy Siegel

1973

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

1971

Great Performances as Jerry
Brewster McCloud as The Photographer (uncredited)
A Memory of Two Mondays as Jerry

1970

Street Scenes as Self

1968

Who's That Knocking at My Door as J.R.

1967

Omnibus as Self
Reflections in a Golden Eye as Soldier (uncredited)

1965

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

1953

The Oscars as Self