John Turturro
Biography
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies (120)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
The Cut
2025
The Room Next Door
2024
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
Forty Winks
2022
The Batman
2022
The Oedipus Project
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019
Gloria Bell
2019
Frank Serpico
2017
Landline
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Hair
2017
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
Hands of Stone
2016
The Ridiculous 6
2015
Mia madre
2015
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
Senza Lucio
2015
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
Rio, I Love You
2014
God's Pocket
2014
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
Fading Gigolo
2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011
Somewhere Tonight
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Cars 2
2011
The Nutcracker
2010
Passione
2010
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
What Just Happened
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Margot at the Wedding
2007
Transformers
2007
Brando
2007
Slipstream
2007
The Good Shepherd
2006
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006
A Few Days in September
2006
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005
She Hate Me
2004
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
Secret Window
2004
Secret Passage
2004
Opopomoz
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
Anger Management
2003
Fear X
2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Mr. Deeds
2002
Collateral Damage
2002
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
Monkeybone
2001
The Coen Brothers
2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
The Man Who Cried
2000
The Luzhin Defence
2000
Two Thousand and None
2000
Company Man
2000
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Summer of Sam
1999
The Source
1999
Rounders
1998
Illuminata
1998
He Got Game
1998
All Revved Up
1998
The Big Lebowski
1998
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
Lesser Prophets
1997
The Truce
1997
Grace of My Heart
1996
Box of Moonlight
1996
Girl 6
1996
Sugartime
1995
Clockers
1995
Unstrung Heroes
1995
Search and Destroy
1995
At Sundance
1995
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
Quiz Show
1994
Being Human
1994
Fearless
1993
Mac
1992
Brain Donors
1992
Barton Fink
1991
Jungle Fever
1991
Men Of Respect
1990
Miller's Crossing
1990
State of Grace
1990
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Catchfire
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989
The Sicilian
1987
Five Corners
1987
The Color of Money
1986
Off Beat
1986
Gung Ho
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
The Flamingo Kid
1984
Raging Bull
1980
Wilder & Me
TV Shows (32)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024
Can't Go Home
2023
Severance
2022
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
The Plot Against America
2020
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
The Name of the Rose
2019
The Night Of
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Difficult People
2015
The Italian Americans
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Finding Your Roots
2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
Flight of the Conchords
2007
Brando: The Documentary
2007
Rachael Ray
2006
Monk
2002
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Baseball
1994
Baseball
1994
Frasier
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
Miami Vice
1984
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
The Emmy Awards
1949