John Turturro
Born: 1957-02-28 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
2025
- The Cut as Boz
2024
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Eric Shane
- The Room Next Door as Damian
2023
- Can't Go Home as Paulo Santana
2022
- Severance as Irving Bailiff
- The Batman as Carmine Falcone
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Dottore (voice)
- Potentially Dangerous ... (Executive Producer)
- High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)
- Forty Winks as Milo
2020
- The Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
- Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time as Self
- Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- The Oedipus Project as Creon
2019
- Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)
- The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville
- The True Adventures of Wolfboy as Mr. Silk
- Gloria Bell as Arnold
- The Jesus Rolls as Jesus Quintana
- Pulling the Evidence That Remains as Self
2018
- Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo) ... (Director)
2017
- Transformers: The Last Knight as Agent Simmons
- Frank Serpico as Self
- Landline as Alan Jacobs
- Hair as Himself
2016
- The Night Of as John Stone
- Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo
- Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- Difficult People as Dusty
- The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday
- Mia madre as Barry Huggins
- The Italian Americans as Self
- Senza Lucio as Self
- Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells as Ingegnere Lombelli
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Exodus: Gods and Kings as Sethos I
- God's Pocket as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
- Rio, I Love You as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
2013
- Fading Gigolo as Fioravante
- Gods Behaving Badly as Hades
- Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Himself
2012
- Finding Your Roots as Self
2011
- Cars 2 as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Simmons
- Somewhere Tonight as Leroy
- In the Shadow of No Towers as Narrator
2010
- The Nutcracker as The Rat King
- Passione as Self
2009
2008
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- What Just Happened as Dick Bell
- Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri
- The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
- Dreaming Slipstream Dream as Self
- Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
- The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II as Himself
2007
- Flight of the Conchords as Credits Cop
- Transformers as Agent Simmons
- The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin
- Brando: The Documentary as Self
- Margot at the Wedding as Jim
- Slipstream as Harvey Brickman
- Brando as Self
2006
- The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco
- Rachael Ray
- A Few Days in September as William Pound
- Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)
- John Torturro and the Soul of Naples as himself
2005
- Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer
- The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation as Son
2004
- Secret Window as John Shooter
- She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera
- Secret Passage as Paolo Zane
- 2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto
- The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
2003
- Anger Management as Chuck
- Fear X as Harry
- The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- Opopomoz as John (voice)
2002
- Monk as Ambrose Monk
- Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong
- Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez
- New York at the Movies as Self
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell
- Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July as Narrator
2001
- Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)
- Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Walker
2000
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
- The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio
- The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
- Company Man as Crocker Johnson
- The Coen Brothers as Self
- Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian
1999
- Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
- Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano
- The Source as Allen Ginsberg
1998
- The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
- Rounders as Joey Knish
- He Got Game as Billy Sunday
- All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano
- Illuminata as Tuccio
- Animals with the Tollkeeper as Tuxedo Man
1997
- The Truce as Primo Levi
- Lesser Prophets as Leon
1996
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent
- Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain
- Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner
1995
- Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli
- At Sundance as Self
- Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz
- Sugartime as Sam Giancana
- Search and Destroy as Ron
1994
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- Quiz Show as Herb Stempel
- Being Human as Lucinnius
- The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Disco Bean
1993
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Frasier as Grant (voice)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman
1992
- Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer
- Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
1991
- Barton Fink as Barton Fink
- Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone
1990
- Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
- State of Grace as Nick
- Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush
- Catchfire as Pinella
- Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia
1989
- Do the Right Thing as Pino
- Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self
1988
- The Fortunate Pilgrim as Larry
1987
- The Sicilian as Pisciotta
- Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino
1986
- The Color of Money as Julian
- Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer
- Gung Ho as Willie
- Off Beat as Neil Pepper
1985
- To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody
- Desperately Seeking Susan as Ray
1984
- Miami Vice as David Traynor
- The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's
- Exterminator 2 as Guy #1
1982
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self - Guest
1980
- Raging Bull as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self