
Harvey Keitel
Acting
1939-05-13 - Present
Harvey Keitel 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.
Credits

Pulp FictionasThe Wolf

Inglourious BasterdsasOSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)

Taxi DriverasSport

Reservoir DogsasMr. White / Larry Dimmick

The Grand Budapest HotelasLudwig

Sister ActasVince LaRocca

Thelma & LouiseasHal

From Dusk Till DawnasJacob Fuller

National TreasureasPeter Sadusky

The IrishmanasAngelo Bruno

Arthur and the InvisiblesasMiro

National Treasure: Book of SecretsasPeter Sadusky

Isle of DogsasGondo (voice)

Little NickyasDad

Cop LandasRay Donlan

The Ridiculous 6asSmiley

Little FockersasRandy Weir

Paradox EffectasSilvio

Moonrise KingdomasCommander Pierce

Be CoolasNick Carr

Get ShortyasHimself (Uncredited)

Mean StreetsasCharlie Cappa

The PianoasGeorge Baines

U-571asCPO Henry Klough

The Last Temptation of ChristasJudas

YouthasMick Boyle

Falling in LoveasEd Lasky

Point of No ReturnasVictor the Cleaner

Rising SunasLt. Tom Graham

Bad LieutenantasLT

The Two JakesasJulius "Jake" Berman

Alice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreasBen Eberhardt

Alice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreasBen

The DuellistsasGabriel Feraud

SmokeasAugustus 'Auggie' Wren

Monkey TroubleasAzro

BugsyasMickey Cohen

FatimaasProfessor Nichols

Red DragonasJack Crawford

LanskyasMeyer Lansky

ClockersasDet. Rocco Klein

Holy SmokeasPJ Waters

The Painted BirdasPriest

Saturn 3asBenson

The BakerasMerchant

The CongressasAl

Wise GuysasBobby DiLea

MilarepaasMarpa

QT8: The First EightasSelf (archive footage)

ChosenasPapi

The Last ManasNoe

The Grey ZoneasSS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt

The BorderasCat

The January ManasPolice Commissioner Frank Starkey

Wrong Turn at TahoeasNino

City of IndustryasRoy Egan

Who's That Knocking at My DoorasJ.R.

Rio, I Love YouasO Ator (segment "O Milagre")

FairyTale: A True StoryasHarry Houdini

Crime SpreeasFrankie Zammeti

The Last GodfatherasDon Carini

ExposedasRivas

Mortal ThoughtsasDet. John Woods

Blue in the FaceasAuggie Wren

Reflections in a Golden EyeasSoldier (uncredited)

The ComedianasMac Schiltz

Bad TimingasInspector Netusil

Shadows in the SunasWeldon Parish

The Pick-up ArtistasAlonzo Scolara

By the GunasSalvatore Vitaglia

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History LessonasThe Relative (Ed Goodman)

Head Above WaterasGeorge

Death WatchasRoddy

Fail SafeasBrig. Gen. Warren Black

Two Evil EyesasRoderick Usher

Laws of ManasCassidy Whittaker

CopkillerasLt. Fred O'Connor

Ulysses' GazeasA

See You SoonasBilly

MadameasBob Fredericks

The Night of VarennesasThomas Paine

First We Take BrooklynasAnatoly

The Young AmericansasJohn Harris

Blue CollarasJerry Bartowski

Lulu on the BridgeasIzzy Maurer

Star KnightasKlever

Eagle's WingasHenry

FingersasJimmy Fingers

A Beginner's Guide to EndingsasDuke White

Joe BabyasRandall Kane
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the ChristasSelf

The Men's ClubasSolly Berliner

Mother, Jugs & SpeedasSpeed

Finding GracelandasElvis

SpreadasFrank Ferretti

ShadrachasVernon

Two Men in TownasBill Agati

BlindsideasPenfield Gruber

Fatal HoneymoonasTommy Thomas

Making 'Taxi Driver'asSelf

Full Tilt BoogieasSelf

Welcome to L.A.asKen Hood

The Bridge of San Luis ReyasUncle Pio

Taking SidesasSteve Arnold

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their MoneyasSelf

Brewster McCloudasThe Photographer (uncredited)

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)asFrankie

One Last DanceasTerrtano

Dream OneasMr. Legend

La bella OteroasErnest Jurgens

Imaginary CrimesasRay Weiler

Scorsese's GoodFellasasSelf

Dangerous GameasEddie Israel

NailedasTony Romano

GinostraasMatt Benson

EsauasAbraham

The OutsiderasSelf

The InquiryasPonzio Pilato

Lies We TellasDemi

A CrimeasRoger Culkin

Behind the White GlassesasSelf

My Sexiest YearasZowie

Blood on the CrownasGeneral Hunter Blair
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood LegendasSelf (archive footage)

That's the Way of the WorldasColeman Buckmaster

Fateas

The Stone MerchantasThe Merchant

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-AméricainasSelf

Dear America: Letters Home from VietnamasDonald Jacques (voice)

BeeperasZolo

Off BeatasMickey

PuebloasSeaman (uncredited)

The Galíndez FileasEdward Robards

The American BrideasSacha

Somebody to LoveasHarry Harrelson

The MinistersasJoseph Bruno

Prince of Central ParkasThe Guardian

Martin Scorsese DirectsasSelf

Gunslinger's RevengeasJohnny Lowen

Presence of MindasThe Master

A Farewell to FoolsasFather Johanis

Dreaming of JuliaasChe

White HunterasThomas

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin ReynoldsasSelf (archive footage)

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des ErfolgsasSelf

NowhereasEl Gringo

Hello Actors StudioasSelf

Three SeasonsasJames Hager

ViperasLeone

Amazing Stories: The Movie IVas(archive footage)

Dear GorbachevasNikolaj Bucharin

Hard MatterasEion

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'asSelf

Theirsas

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent FilmasSelf (archive footage)

The Ten Commandments of CreativityasSelf

11 Colours of the BirdasSelf

Down Where the Buffalo GoasCarl

Virginia HillasBugsy Siegel
HellfireasJeremiah

The John Garfield StoryasSelf
Chasing The ElephantasThe Mystery Man
Gandhi of the MonthasEdward Baker

Drums of FireasSandoval

Street Scenes 1970asSelf

Puerto Vallarta SqueezeasWalter McGrane

Live Fast, Die Laughingas

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy WonderasSelf

OutlawsasThe Director

The Wreckeras

This Year in CzernowitzasHimself

Abel Ferrara: Not Guiltyas

Vanessa in the GardenasByron Sullivan
The LetterasFinn O'Brien
Baciami Stregaas

A Memory of Two MondaysasJerry

A Stone in the MouthasThe fugitive

Imagining Americaas

This Ain't Bebopas
Paradise Inc.asHubert Humbolt

Garland Jeffreys: The King of in BetweenasSelf
Who Killed the Idea?asPrivate Investigator

Who Do You Think You're Fooling?asMr. White (archive footage)
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Filmas

Inside 'The Piano'asSelf