Harvey Keitel
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.
207 acting credits
Acting · 207
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Great Performances
1971
Pulp Fiction
1994
Hogan's Heroes
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
Hellfire
2026
Omnibus
1967
Kojak
1973
Amazing Stories
1985
The Oscars
1953
Inglourious Basterds
2009
V Graham Norton
2002
Taxi Driver
1976
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Life on Mars
2008
Thelma & Louise
1991
National Treasure: Edge of History
2022
National Treasure
2004
The Irishman
2019
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996
American Playhouse
1982
Isle of Dogs
2018
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
The Play on One
1988
Little Fockers
2010
Sister Act
1992
Cop Land
1997
Mike
2022
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Kill Code
2026
U-571
2000
Youth
2015
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
Get Shorty
1995
Little Nicky
2000
The Piano
1993
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Be Cool
2005
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Mean Streets
1973
The Path to 9/11
2006
Bugsy
1991
Clockers
1995
Rising Sun
1993
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
See You Soon
2019
Joe Baby
2026
Point of No Return
1993
Holy Smoke
1999
The Duellists
1977
Bad Lieutenant
1992
The Two Jakes
1990
Saturn 3
1980
Falling in Love
1984
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
The Painted Bird
2019
The Baker
2023
Smoke
1995
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
The Grey Zone
2001
Fatima
2020
The Ellen Burstyn Show
1986
The Last Man
2018
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
Lansky
2021
The Comedian
2016
Mortal Thoughts
1991
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976
The Pick-up Artist
1987
Milarepa
2025
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
The Last Godfather
2010
The Wrecker
2025
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Two Evil Eyes
1990
Blue Collar
1978
Pueblo
1973
Bad Timing
1980
Monkey Trouble
1994
Fail Safe
2000
Red Dragon
2002
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
The Congress
2013
The January Man
1989
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967
Crime Spree
2003
Madame
2017
One Last Dance
2007
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
Gunslinger's Revenge
1998
Paradox Effect
2024
Blue in the Face
1995
City of Industry
1997
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968
Shadrach
1998
Off Beat
1986
The Border
1982
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
Dangerous Game
1993
Rio, I Love You
2014
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996
Laws of Man
2025
Death Watch
1980
Head Above Water
1996
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
Welcome to L.A.
1976
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
2010
Exposed
1983
Somebody to Love
1994
By the Gun
2014
Chosen
2016
Taking Sides
2002
The Young Americans
1993
Shadows in the Sun
2005
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986
The Stone Merchant
2006
That Night of Varennes
1982
The Ministers
2009
Finding Graceland
1998
Fatal Honeymoon
2012
A Crime
2006
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Fingers
1978
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
Wise Guys
1986
Brewster McCloud
1971
Spread
2024
The Men's Club
1986
Star Knight
1985
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
2002
Two Men in Town
2014
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Esau
2019
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Full Tilt Boogie
1998
Copkiller
1983
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Eagle's Wing
1979
A Memory of Two Mondays
1971
Presence of Mind
2000
Imaginary Crimes
1994
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004
The Galíndez File
2003
Three Seasons
1999
The Outsider
2005
Vanessa in the Garden
1985
My Sexiest Year
2007
The American Bride
1986
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
2024
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
2000
Behind the White Glasses
2015
First We Take Brooklyn
2018
Nailed
2001
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
1994
The Letter
2025
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Drums of Fire
1990
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
2023
Beeper
2002
La bella Otero
1984
The John Garfield Story
2003
Blood on the Crown
2021
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
Blindside
1987
Lies We Tell
2018
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
1994
Street Scenes
1970
Virginia Hill
1974
Nowhere
2002
Fate
2026
That's the Way of the World
1975
Outlaws
2015
Ginostra
2003
Dream One
1984
Prince of Central Park
2000
The Inquiry
1986
Baciami Strega
1985
Viper
2000
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
2002
Imagining America
1989
Dreaming of Julia
2003
A Farewell to Fools
2013
Theirs
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Gandhi of the Month
2014
Dear Gorbachev
1988
Who Killed the Idea?
2003
Live Fast, Die Laughing
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Down Where the Buffalo Go
1988
This Ain't Bebop
1989
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
White Hunter
1990
A Stone in the Mouth
1983
Paradise Inc.
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Chasing The Elephant
2003
Inside 'The Piano'
1993
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016
This Year in Czernowitz
2004