Harvey Keitel
Biography
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.
Movies (177)
Hellfire
2026
Kill Code
2026
Fate
2026
The Letter
2025
The Wrecker
2025
Milarepa
2025
Laws of Man
2025
Spread
2024
Paradox Effect
2024
Joe Baby
2024
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
2024
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
2023
The Baker
2023
Lansky
2021
Blood on the Crown
2021
Fatima
2020
11 Colours of the Bird
2020
Esau
2019
The Irishman
2019
The Painted Bird
2019
See You Soon
2019
The Last Man
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
First We Take Brooklyn
2018
Lies We Tell
2018
Madame
2017
The Comedian
2016
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016
Chosen
2016
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Outlaws
2015
Behind the White Glasses
2015
Youth
2015
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
By the Gun
2014
Rio, I Love You
2014
Two Men in Town
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
The Congress
2013
A Farewell to Fools
2013
Fatal Honeymoon
2012
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
The Last Godfather
2010
Little Fockers
2010
A Beginner's Guide to Endings
2010
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
The Ministers
2009
Inglourious Basterds
2009
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
My Sexiest Year
2007
One Last Dance
2007
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
The Stone Merchant
2006
A Crime
2006
The Outsider
2005
Shadows in the Sun
2005
Be Cool
2005
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
National Treasure
2004
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004
This Year in Czernowitz
2004
Dreaming of Julia
2003
The Galíndez File
2003
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Who Killed the Idea?
2003
Crime Spree
2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The John Garfield Story
2003
Ginostra
2003
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
2002
Beeper
2002
Red Dragon
2002
Nowhere
2002
Taking Sides
2002
The Grey Zone
2001
Nailed
2001
Little Nicky
2000
Presence of Mind
2000
Prince of Central Park
2000
Viper
2000
U-571
2000
Fail Safe
2000
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
2000
Holy Smoke
1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
Three Seasons
1999
Gunslinger's Revenge
1998
Shadrach
1998
Finding Graceland
1998
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Full Tilt Boogie
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Cop Land
1997
City of Industry
1997
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996
Head Above Water
1996
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996
Get Shorty
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
Clockers
1995
Blue in the Face
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995
Smoke
1995
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
1994
Imaginary Crimes
1994
Somebody to Love
1994
Pulp Fiction
1994
Monkey Trouble
1994
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
1994
Dangerous Game
1993
The Young Americans
1993
Rising Sun
1993
The Piano
1993
Point of No Return
1993
Inside 'The Piano'
1993
Bad Lieutenant
1992
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Sister Act
1992
Bugsy
1991
Thelma & Louise
1991
Mortal Thoughts
1991
Drums of Fire
1990
The Two Jakes
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Two Evil Eyes
1990
White Hunter
1990
Imagining America
1989
The January Man
1989
This Ain't Bebop
1989
Dear Gorbachev
1988
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Down Where the Buffalo Go
1988
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
The Pick-up Artist
1987
Blindside
1987
The Inquiry
1986
The American Bride
1986
The Men's Club
1986
Wise Guys
1986
Off Beat
1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986
Vanessa in the Garden
1985
Star Knight
1985
Dream One
1984
Falling in Love
1984
A Stone in the Mouth
1983
Exposed
1983
Copkiller
1983
That Night of Varennes
1982
The Border
1982
Bad Timing
1980
Saturn 3
1980
Death Watch
1980
Eagle's Wing
1979
Fingers
1978
Blue Collar
1978
The Duellists
1977
Welcome to L.A.
1976
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976
Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976
Taxi Driver
1976
That's the Way of the World
1975
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
Virginia Hill
1974
Mean Streets
1973
Pueblo
1973
Brewster McCloud
1971
A Memory of Two Mondays
1971
Street Scenes
1970
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967
Live Fast, Die Laughing
Theirs
TV Shows (25)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
National Treasure: Edge of History
2022
Mike
2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Life on Mars
2008
The Path to 9/11
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
V Graham Norton
2002
The View
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Play on One
1988
The Ellen Burstyn Show
1986
Amazing Stories
1985
La bella Otero
1984
American Playhouse
1982
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Kojak
1973
Great Performances
1971
Omnibus
1967
The F.B.I.
1965
Hogan's Heroes
1965
The Oscars
1953