
Acting
Community Rating
5.9
2 Ratist reviews
Born
May 13, 1939 (age 86)
Born in
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.

Fate
2026

Hellfire
Jeremiah
2026

The Letter
Finn O'Brien
2025

The Wrecker
Dante
2025

Milarepa
Marpa
2025

Laws of Man
Cassidy Whittaker
2025

Spread
Frank Ferretti
2024

Paradox Effect
Silvio
2024

Joe Baby
Randall Kane
2024

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Self (archive footage)
2024

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self
2024

Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
Self
2023

The Baker
Merchant
2023

Lansky
Meyer Lansky
2021

Blood on the Crown
General Hunter Blair
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021

Fatima
Professor Nichols
2020

11 Colours of the Bird
Self
2020

Esau
Abraham
2019

The Irishman
Angelo Bruno
2019