Harvey Keitel
Acting
1939-05-13 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersFate
2027 · Movie
Hellfire
2026 · Movie
Kill Code
2026 · Movie
The Letter
2025 · Movie
The Wrecker
2025 · Movie
Milarepa
2025 · Movie
Laws of Man
2025 · Movie
Spread
2024 · Movie
Paradox Effect
2024 · Movie
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024 · Series
Joe Baby
2024 · Movie
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
2024 · Movie
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
2023 · Movie
The Baker
2023 · Movie
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · Series
National Treasure: Edge of History
2022 · Series
Mike
2022 · Series
Lansky
2021 · Movie
Blood on the Crown
2021 · Movie
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Movie
Fatima
2020 · Movie
11 Colours of the Bird
2020 · Movie
Esau
2019 · Movie
The Irishman
2019 · Movie
The Painted Bird
2019 · Movie
See You Soon
2019 · Movie
The Last Man
2018 · Movie
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Movie
First We Take Brooklyn
2018 · Movie
Lies We Tell
2018 · Movie
Madame
2017 · Movie
The Comedian
2016 · Movie
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016 · Movie
Chosen
2016 · Movie
The Ridiculous 6
2015 · Movie
Outlaws
2015 · Movie
Behind the White Glasses
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Youth
2015 · Movie
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015 · Movie
By the Gun
2014 · Movie
Rio, I Love You
2014 · Movie
Two Men in Town
2014 · Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Movie
Gandhi of the Month
2014 · Movie
The Congress
2013 · Movie
A Farewell to Fools
2013 · Movie
Fatal Honeymoon
2012 · Movie
Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · Movie
The Last Godfather
2010 · Movie
Little Fockers
2010 · Movie
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
2010 · Movie
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009 · Movie
The Ministers
2009 · Movie
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Movie
Life on Mars
2008 · Series
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Movie
My Sexiest Year
2007 · Movie
One Last Dance
2007 · Movie
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Movie
The Stone Merchant
2006 · Movie
A Crime
2006 · Movie
The Path to 9/11
2006 · Series
The Outsider
2005 · Movie
Shadows in the Sun
2005 · Movie
Be Cool
2005 · Movie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004 · Movie
National Treasure
2004 · Movie
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004 · Movie
This Year in Czernowitz
2004 · Movie
Chasing The Elephant
2003 · Movie
Dreaming of Julia
2003 · Movie
The Galíndez File
2003 · Movie
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003 · Movie
Crime Spree
2003 · Movie
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003 · Movie
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Movie
The John Garfield Story
2003 · Movie
Ginostra
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
2002 · Movie
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
2002 · Movie
Beeper
2002 · Movie
Red Dragon
2002 · Movie
Nowhere
2002 · Movie
V Graham Norton
2002 · Series
Taking Sides
2002 · Movie
The Grey Zone
2001 · Movie
Adam Sandler Goes to Hell
2001 · Movie
Nailed
2001 · Movie
Little Nicky
2000 · Movie
Presence of Mind
2000 · Movie
Prince of Central Park
2000 · Movie
Viper
2000 · Movie
U-571
2000 · Movie
Fail Safe
2000 · Movie
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
2000 · Movie
Holy Smoke
1999 · Movie
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999 · Movie
Three Seasons
1999 · Movie
Gunslinger's Revenge
1998 · Movie
Shadrach
1998 · Movie
Finding Graceland
1998 · Movie
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 · Movie
Full Tilt Boogie
1998 · Movie
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998 · Movie
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
Cop Land
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
City of Industry
1997 · Movie
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Movie
Head Above Water
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 · Movie
Get Shorty
1995 · Movie
Ulysses' Gaze
1995 · Movie
Clockers
1995 · Movie
Blue in the Face
1995 · Movie
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995 · Movie
Smoke
1995 · Movie
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
1994 · Movie
Imaginary Crimes
1994 · Movie
Somebody to Love
1994 · Movie
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Monkey Trouble
1994 · Movie
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
1994 · Movie
Dangerous Game
1993 · Movie
The Young Americans
1993 · Movie
Rising Sun
1993 · Movie
The Piano
1993 · Movie
Point of No Return
1993 · Movie
Inside 'The Piano'
1993 · Movie
Bad Lieutenant
1992 · Movie
Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Movie
Blast 'Em
1992 · Movie
Sister Act
1992 · Movie
Bugsy
1991 · Movie
Thelma & Louise
1991 · Movie
Mortal Thoughts
1991 · Movie
Drums of Fire
1990 · Movie
The Two Jakes
1990 · Movie
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990 · Movie
Two Evil Eyes
1990 · Movie
White Hunter
1990 · Movie
Imagining America
1989 · Movie
The January Man
1989 · Movie
This Ain't Bebop
1989 · Movie
Dear Gorbachev
1988 · Movie
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Movie
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Movie
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Movie
The Play on One
1988 · Series
Down Where the Buffalo Go
1988 · Movie
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987 · Movie
The Pick-up Artist
1987 · Movie
Blindside
1987 · Movie
The Inquiry
1986 · Movie
The American Bride
1986 · Movie
The Ellen Burstyn Show
1986 · Series
The Men's Club
1986 · Movie
Wise Guys
1986 · Movie
Off Beat
1986 · Movie
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986 · Movie
Vanessa in the Garden
1985 · Movie
Star Knight
1985 · Movie
Baciami Strega
1985 · Movie
Amazing Stories
1985 · Series
Dream One
1984 · Movie
Falling in Love
1984 · Movie
La bella Otero
1984 · Series
A Stone in the Mouth
1983 · Movie
Exposed
1983 · Movie
Copkiller
1983 · Movie
That Night of Varennes
1982 · Movie
The Border
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Bad Timing
1980 · Movie
Saturn 3
1980 · Movie
Death Watch
1980 · Movie
Eagle's Wing
1979 · Movie
Fingers
1978 · Movie
Blue Collar
1978 · Movie
The Duellists
1977 · Movie
Welcome to L.A.
1976 · Movie
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · Movie
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976 · Movie
Taxi Driver
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
That's the Way of the World
1975 · Movie
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 · Movie
Virginia Hill
1974 · Movie
Kojak
1973 · Series
Mean Streets
1973 · Movie
Pueblo
1973 · Movie
Brewster McCloud
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
A Memory of Two Mondays
1971 · Movie
Street Scenes 1970
1970 · Movie
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Movie
The F.B.I.
1965 · Series
Hogan's Heroes
1965 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Theirs
Movie
Paradise Inc.
Movie
Live Fast, Die Laughing
Movie
Untitled Harvey Keitel/Daphna Kastner Film
Movie