Actor
Harvey Keitel
Born 13 May 1939 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Films and shows
- 2027
Fate - 2026
Hellfire1h 34mJeremiah - 2026
Kill Code1h 27mEion - 2025
The Letter1h 43mFinn O'Brien - 2025
The Wrecker1h 35mDante - 2025
Laws of Man1h 31mCassidy Whittaker - 2025
Milarepa1h 40mMarpa - 2024
Paradox Effect1h 28mSilvio - 2024
The Tattooist of Auschwitz1 seasonLali Sokolov (Old) - 2024
Joe Baby1h 26mRandall Kane - 2024
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent FilmSelf (archive footage) - 2024
Spread1h 34mFrank Ferretti - 2023
The Baker1h 40mMerchant - 2023
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between1h 10mSelf - 2021
Lansky1h 59mMeyer Lansky - 2021
Blood on the Crown1h 42mGeneral Hunter Blair - 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend2h 53mSelf (archive footage)
- 2020
Fatima1h 53mProfessor Nichols - 2020
11 Colours of the Bird2h 6mSelf - 2019
See You Soon1h 47mBilly - 2019
Esau1h 40mAbraham - 2019
The Irishman3h 29mAngelo Bruno - 2019
The Painted Bird2h 49mPriest - 2018
First We Take Brooklyn1h 30mAnatoly - 2018
The Last Man1h 41mNoe - 2018
Lies We Tell1h 49mDemi - 2018
Isle of Dogs1h 41mGondo (voice) - 2017
Madame1h 31mBob Fredericks - 2016
Chosen1h 41mPapi - 2016
The Comedian2hMac Schiltz - 2016
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A42mSelf - 2015
Outlaws17mThe Director - 2015
Youth2h 5mMick Boyle - 2015
Scorsese's GoodFellas30mSelf - 2015
Behind the White Glasses1h 52mSelf - 2015
The Ridiculous 61h 59mSmiley - 2014Gandhi of the Month1h 57mEdward Baker
- 2014
Two Men in Town2hBill Agati - 2014
By the Gun1h 45mSalvatore Vitaglia - 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel1h 40mLudwig - 2013
A Farewell to Fools1h 25mFather Johanis - 2013
The Congress2h 3mAl - 2012
Fatal Honeymoon1h 30mTommy Thomas - 2012
Moonrise Kingdom1h 34mCommander Pierce - 2010
The Last Godfather1h 40mDon Carini - 2010
A Beginner's Guide to Endings1h 32mDuke White - 2010
Little Fockers1h 38mRandy Weir - 2009
Wrong Turn at Tahoe1h 31mNino - 2009
The Ministers1h 29mJoseph Bruno - 2008
Life on Mars1 seasonLt. Gene Hunt - 2007
My Sexiest Year1h 33mZowie - 2007
One Last Dance1h 48mTerrtano - 2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets2h 4mPeter Sadusky - 2006
A Crime1h 43mRoger Culkin - 2006
The Stone Merchant2hThe Merchant - 2006
The Path to 9/111 seasonJohn O'Neill - 2005
Shadows in the Sun1h 40mWeldon Parish - 2005
The Outsider1h 23mSelf - 2005
Be Cool1h 59mNick Carr - 2004
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze1h 57mWalter McGrane - 2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey2hUncle Pio - 2004
This Year in Czernowitz2h 10mSelf - 2004
National Treasure2h 11mSadusky - 2003
Ginostra2h 15mMatt Benson - 2003
The Galíndez File2h 4mEdward Robards - 2003
Who Killed the Idea?15mPrivate Investigator - 2003
Dreaming of Julia1h 49mChe - 2003Chasing The Elephant12mThe Mystery Man
- 2003
Crime Spree1h 38mFrankie Zammeti - 2003
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty1h 21m - 2003
The John Garfield Story58mSelf - 2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'40mSelf - 2002
Taking Sides1h 48mSteve Arnold - 2002
Beeper1h 34mZolo - 2002
Red Dragon2h 4mJack Crawford - 2002
Nowhere1h 40mEl Gringo - 2002Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film6mSelf
- 2002
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds29mSelf (archive footage) - 2001
Nailed1h 30mTony Romano - 2001
Adam Sandler Goes to Hell33mSelf - 2001
The Grey Zone1h 48mSS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt - 2000
Viper1h 35mLeone - 2000
U-5711h 56mCPO Henry Klough - 2000
Little Nicky1h 30mDad - 2000
Presence of Mind1h 34mThe Master - 2000
Prince of Central Park1h 49mThe Guardian - 2000
The Ten Commandments of Creativity2h 11mSelf - 2000
Fail Safe1h 26mBrig. Gen. Warren Black - 1999
Holy Smoke1h 55mPJ Waters - 1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'1h 11mSelf - 1999
Three Seasons1h 45mJames Hager - 1998
Finding Graceland1h 37mElvis - 1998
Shadrach1h 28mVernon - 1998
Lulu on the Bridge1h 43mIzzy Maurer - 1998
Gunslinger's Revenge1h 33mJohnny Lowen - 1998
Full Tilt Boogie1h 37mSelf - 1997
City of Industry1h 37mRoy Egan - 1997
Cop Land1h 44mRay Donlan - 1997
FairyTale: A True Story1h 39mHarry Houdini - 1996
Head Above Water1h 32mGeorge - 1996
From Dusk Till Dawn1h 48mJacob Fuller - 1996
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money2h 50mSelf - 1995
Smoke1h 52mAugustus 'Auggie' Wren - 1995
Blue in the Face1h 23mAuggie Wren - 1995
Clockers2h 8mDet. Rocco Klein - 1995
Ulysses' Gaze2h 56mA - 1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IVByron Sullivan (archive footage) - 1994
Somebody to Love1h 42mHarry Harrelson - 1994
Imaginary Crimes1h 45mRay Weiler - 1994
Monkey Trouble1h 36mAzro - 1994
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?11mMr. White (archive footage) - 1994
Pulp Fiction2h 34mThe Wolf - 1994
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder53mSelf - 1993
Dangerous Game1h 48mEddie Israel - 1993
The Young Americans1h 43mJohn Harris - 1993
The Piano2hGeorge Baines - 1993
Rising Sun2h 9mLt. Tom Graham - 1993
Inside 'The Piano'15mSelf - 1993
Point of No Return1h 48mVictor the Cleaner - 1992
Bad Lieutenant1h 36mLT - 1992
Reservoir Dogs1h 39mMr. White / Larry Dimmick - 1992
Sister Act1h 40mVince LaRocca - 1992
Blast 'Em1h 43mSelf (uncredited) - 1991
Bugsy2h 16mMickey Cohen - 1991
Thelma & Louise2h 10mHal - 1991
Mortal Thoughts1h 44mDet. John Woods - 1990
White Hunter1h 38mThomas - 1990
The Two Jakes2h 17mJulius "Jake" Berman - 1990
Two Evil Eyes2hRoderick Usher - 1990
Drums of Fire2h 12mSandoval - 1990
Martin Scorsese Directs56mSelf - 1989
This Ain't Bebop22m - 1989
Imagining America1h - 1989
The January Man1h 37mPolice Commissioner Frank Starkey - 1988
Down Where the Buffalo Go1h 30mCarl - 1988
Dear Gorbachev1h 21mNikolaj Bucharin - 1988
The Last Temptation of Christ2h 44mJudas - 1988
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ15mSelf - 1988
Hello Actors Studio2h 54mSelf - 1987
Blindside1h 42mPenfield Gruber - 1987
The Pick-up Artist1h 21mAlonzo Scolara - 1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)1h 55mFrankie - 1986
The Inquiry1h 47mPonzio Pilato - 1986
Wise Guys1h 32mBobby DiLea - 1986
The Men's Club1h 41mSolly Berliner - 1986
The American Bride1h 32mSacha - 1986
Off Beat1h 32mMickey - 1985
Vanessa in the Garden25mByron Sullivan - 1985
Star Knight1h 30mKlever - 1985Baciami Strega1h 30m
- 1984
La bella Otero1 seasonErnest Jurgens - 1984
Falling in Love1h 46mEd Lasky - 1984
Dream One1h 37mMr. Legend - 1983
A Stone in the Mouth1h 45mThe Fugitive - 1983
Copkiller1h 57mLt. Fred O'Connor - 1983
Exposed1h 40mRivas - 1982
The Border1h 48mCat - 1982
That Night of Varennes2h 31mThomas Paine - 1980
Death Watch2h 11mRoddy - 1980
Saturn 31h 27mBenson - 1980
Bad Timing2h 3mInspector Netusil - 1979
Eagle's Wing1h 51mHenry - 1978
Fingers1h 30mJimmy Fingers - 1978
Blue Collar1h 54mJerry Bartowski - 1977
The Duellists1h 40mGabriel Feraud - 1976
Mother, Jugs & Speed1h 35mSpeed - 1976
Taxi Driver1h 54mSport - 1976
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson2h 3mThe Relative (Ed Goodman) - 1976
Welcome to L.A.1h 46mKen Hood - 1975
That's the Way of the World1h 40mColeman Buckmaster - 1974
Virginia Hill1h 14mBugsy Siegel - 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore1h 52mBen Eberhardt - 1973
Mean Streets1h 52mCharlie Cappa - 1971
A Memory of Two Mondays1h 27mJerry - 1970
Street Scenes 19701h 15mSelf - 1968
Who's That Knocking at My Door1h 30mJ.R. - 1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye1h 48mSoldier (uncredited) - Paradise Inc.Hubert Humbolt
- The MethodRobert
Theirs- Untitled Harvey Keitel/Daphna Kastner Film
Pawn Shop- Minute Mark
- Live Fast, Die Laughing
