Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel (/kaɪˈtɛl/ ky-TEL; born May 13, 1939)[1] is an American actor and producer. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and The Last Temptation of Christ; Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma & Louise; István Szabó’s Taking Sides; Peter Yates' Mother, Jugs & Speed; Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction; Jane Campion's The Piano; Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant; Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn; James Mangold's Cop Land; Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Isle of Dogs; and Paolo Sorrentino's Youth. Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio from 1995 to 2017.[2]
== Early life ==
Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam (née Klein) and Harry Keitel, who were Jewish emigrants from Romania and Poland, respectively.[3] His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hat maker.
Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn,[4] with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School. At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps,[4] a decision that took him to Lebanon, during Operation Blue Bat. After his return to the United States, he was a court reporter for several years and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career.[4]
== Career ==
Keitel studied under both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and at the HB Studio, eventually landing roles in some Off-Broadway productions.[4] During this time, Keitel auditioned for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and gained a starring role as "J.R.", in Scorsese's first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967).[4]Since then, Scorsese and Keitel have worked together on several projects.[4]Keitel had the starring role in Scorsese's Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niro's breakthrough film. Keitel re-teamed with Scorsese for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), in which he had a villainous supporting role, and appeared with Robert De Niro again in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), playing the role of Jodie Foster's pimp.[4]
In 1977 and 1978, Keitel starred in the directorial debuts of Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, co-starring Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto), Ridley Scott (The Duellists, co-starring Keith Carradine), and James Toback (Fingers, in which Keitel played a street hood with aspirations of being a pianist - a role writer/director Toback wrote for Robert De Niro to play).
Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Coppola was not happy with Keitel's take on Willard, stating that the actor "found it difficult to play him a passive onlooker".[5] After viewing the first week's footage, Coppola replaced Keitel with a casting session favorite, Martin Sheen.
Keitel drifted into obscurity through most of the 1980s.[4] He continued to do work on both stage and screen, but usually in the stereotypical role of a thug. Keitel played a corrupt police officer in the 1983 thriller Copkiller (co-starring musician John Lydon), before taking supporting roles in the romantic drama Falling in Love (1984), starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma's mobster comedy Wise Guys (1986), starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo.
Keitel played Judas in Martin Scorsese's controversial The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes (1990), directed by Jack Nicholson. Ridley Scott cast Keitel as the sympathetic policeman in Thelma & Louise in 1991; that same year, Keitel landed a role in Barry Levinson's Bugsy, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, Keitel played another mobster in the Whoopi Goldberg-starring comedy Sister Act.
Keitel starred in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (which he co-produced) in 1992,[4] where his performance as "Mr. White" took his career to a different level. Since then, Keitel has chosen his roles with care, seeking to change his image and show a broader acting range.[4] One of those roles was the title character in Bad Lieutenant, about a self-loathing, drug-addicted police lieutenant trying to redeem himself.[4] He co-starred in the movie The Piano in 1993,[4] and played an efficient cleanup expert, Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Keitel starred as a police detective in Spike Lee's Clockers (an adaptation of Richard Price's novel, co-produced by Martin Scorsese). In 1996, Keitel had a major role in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk till Dawn, and in 1997, he starred in the crime drama Cop Land, which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro.
His later roles include the fatherly Satan in Little Nicky, a wise Navy man in U-571, diligent FBI Special agent Sadusky in National Treasure and the latter's sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets. In 1999, Keitel was replaced by Sydney Pollack on the set of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, due to shooting conflicts, and appeared in Tony Bui's award-winning directorial debut, Three Seasons (which Keitel also executive produced). Keitel also re-teamed with Jane Campion for Holy Smoke! (co-starring Kate Winslet).
In 2002, at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival, Keitel was honored with the Stanislavsky Award for his outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school.[6]
He also appeared in the Steinlager Pure commercials in New Zealand in 2007. Unlike many American male actors, Keitel has appeared nude in several films, including full frontal nudity in Bad Lieutenant and The Piano.
In January 2008, Keitel played Jerry Springer in the New York City premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall.[4] In 2008, Keitel was cast in the role of Detective Gene Hunt in ABC's short-lived US remake of the successful British time-travel police drama series Life on Mars.[7]
In June 2009, he made a cameo appearance in the Jay-Z video for "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)", a nod to his Brooklyn origins. In 2013, he appeared in a music video for "Pretty Hurts" by Beyoncé.[8]
In 2013, he starred in the independent film A Farewell to Fools.[9]
Since 2014, he has reprised his role of Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction as part of a £40 million television advertising campaign for Direct Line, an insurance company in the United Kingdom.[10][11]
== Personal life ==
Keitel was in a long-term relationship with actress Lorraine Bracco. They met in 1983 but the relationship ended acrimoniously in the early 1990s with a prolonged custody battle over their daughter.[12] He married actress Daphna Kastner in 2001. Keitel is the father of three children: daughter Stella (born 1985) from his relationship with Bracco; son Hudson (born 2001) from his relationship with Lisa Karmazin; and son Roman (born 2004) from his marriage to Kastner. He is a godfather of close friend Michael Madsen's son Max.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1967	Who's That Knocking at My Door 	J.R. 	
1967	Reflections in a Golden Eye 	Soldier 	Uncredited
1970	Brewster McCloud 	Photographer 	Uncredited
1973	Mean Streets 	Charlie 	
1974	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 	Ben 	
1975	That's the Way of the World 	Coleman Buckmaster 	
1976	Taxi Driver 	Charles "Sport" Rain/"Matthew" 	Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place)
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place)
1976	Mother, Jugs & Speed 	Tony "Speed" Malatesta 	
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians 	Ed Goodman 	
1976	Welcome to L.A. 	Ken Hood 	
1977	The Duellists 	Feraud 	
1978	Blue Collar 	Jerry Bartowski 	
1978	Fingers 	Jimmy Fingers 	
1979	Eagle's Wing 	Henry 	
1980	Death Watch 	Roddy 	
1980	Bad Timing 	Inspector Netusil 	
1980	Saturn 3 	Benson 	Voice dubbed by Roy Dotrice
1982	That Night in Varennes 	Thomas Paine 	
1982	The Border 	Cat 	
1983	Exposed 	Rivas 	
1983	Copkiller 	Lt. Fred O'Connor 	
1984	Falling in Love 	Ed Lasky 	
1984	Nemo 	Mr. Legend 	
1985	El caballero del dragon (The Knight of the Dragon)	Clever 	Spanish film
1985	Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) 	Frankie 	
1986	The Inquiry 	Pontius Pilate 	
1986	Off Beat 	Mickey 	
1986	Wise Guys 	Bobby DiLea 	
1986	The Men's Club 	Solly Berliner 	
1987	Blindside 	Penfield Gruber 	
1987	The Pick-up Artist 	Alonzo Scolara 	
1988	The Last Temptation of Christ 	Judas Iscariot 	Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
1988	Dear Gorbachev 	Nikolaj Bucharin 	
1989	The January Man 	Police Commissioner Frank Starkey	
1989	Imagining America 	 	
1990	Two Evil Eyes 	Roderick Usher 	Segment: "The Black Cat"
1990	The Two Jakes 	Julius "Jake" Berman 	
1990	Grandi cacciatori 	Thomas 	
1991	Mortal Thoughts 	Det. John Woods 	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
1991	Thelma & Louise 	Hal 	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
1991	Bugsy 	Mickey Cohen 	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1992	Reservoir Dogs 	"Mr. White" Larry Dimmick 	Also co-producer
Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor
1992	Bad Lieutenant 	The Lieutenant 	Fantasporto's International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (2nd place)
1992	Sister Act 	Vince LaRocca 	
1993	Point of No Return 	Victor the Cleaner 	
1993	The Piano 	George Baines 	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1993	Rising Sun 	Lt. Tom Graham 	
1993	Dangerous Game 	Eddie Israel 	Venice Film Festival – Golden Ciak for Best Actor
1993	Young Americans 	John Harris 	
1994	Monkey Trouble 	Azro 	
1994	Pulp Fiction 	Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe 	
1994	Imaginary Crimes 	Ray Weiler 	
1995	Smoke 	Augustus "Auggie" Wren 	Berlin International Film Festival's Special Jury Prize(shared with Wayne Wang)
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
1995	Blue in the Face 	Auggie Wren 	Also executive producer
1995	Ulysses' Gaze 	A 	Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
1995	Clockers 	Det. Rocco Klein 	
1995	Get Shorty 	Himself 	Uncredited
1996	From Dusk till Dawn 	Jacob Fuller 	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
1996	Head Above Water 	George 	
1997	City of Industry 	Roy Egan 	
1997	Cop Land 	Ray Donlan 	
1997	FairyTale: A True Story 	Harry Houdini 	
1998	Shadrach 	Vernon 	
1998	Lulu on the Bridge 	Izzy Maurer 	
1998	Finding Graceland 	Elvis 	
1998	Sweets of Roses 	Hubie 	Voice
1998	Gunslinger's Revenge (Il mio West) 	Johnny Lowen 	
1999	Three Seasons 	James Hager 	Also executive producer
1999	Holy Smoke! 	PJ Waters 	
1999	Presence of Mind 	The Master 	
2000	U-571 	CPO Henry Klough 	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Action
2000	Prince of Central Park 	The Guardian 	
2000	Little Nicky 	Satan 	
2000	Viper 	Leone 	
2001	Nailed 	Tony Romano 	
2001	The Grey Zone 	SS-OberscharführerEric Muhsfeldt 	Also executive producer
2001	Taking Sides 	Major Steve Arnold 	
2002	Ginostra 	Matt Benson 	
2002	Red Dragon 	Jack Crawford 	
2003	Crime Spree 	Frankie Zammeti 	
2003	The Galindez File 	Edward Robards 	
2003	Dreaming of Julia 	Che 	Also producer
2004	Puerto Vallarta Squeeze 	Walter McGrane 	
2004	National Treasure 	Agent Peter Sadusky 	
2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey 	Uncle Pio 	
2005	Be Cool 	Nick Carr 	
2005	Shadows in the Sun 	Weldon Parish 	
2006	One Last Dance 	Terrtano 	
2006	A Crime 	Roger Culkin 	
2006	The Stone Merchant [it] 	The Merchant Ludovico Vicedomini 	
2006	Arthur and the Minimoys 	Miro 	Voice
2007	My Sexiest Year 	Zowie 	
2007	National Treasure: Book of Secrets 	Agent Peter Sadusky 	
2009	Chaos 	 	
2009	Inglourious Basterds 	Allied Commanding Officer 	Voice
Uncredited
2009	The Ministers 	Detective Joseph Bruno 	
2009	Wrong Turn at Tahoe 	Nino 	
2010	A Beginner's Guide to Endings 	Duke White 	
2010	Little Fockers 	Randy Weir 	
2010	The Last Godfather 	Don Carini 	
2012	Moonrise Kingdom 	Commander Pierce 	
2013	A Farewell to Fools 	Father Johanis 	
2013	The Power Inside 	O'Mansky 	
2013	The Congress 	Al 	
2014	Two Men in Town 	Bill Agati 	
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel 	Ludvig 	Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2014	Rio, I Love You 	Himself (as O Ator) 	Segment: "O Milagre"
2014	By the Gun[13] 	Salvatore Vitaglia 	
2014	Gandhi of the Month 	Edward Baker 	Previously titled Against Itself
2015	Youth 	Mick Boyle 	
2015	The Ridiculous 6 	Smiley Harris 	
2016	Chosen 	Papi 	
2016	The Comedian 	Mac 	
2017	Madame 	Bob Fredericks 	
2017	Lies We Tell 	Demi 	
2018	Isle of Dogs 	Gondo 	Voice
2018	First We Take Brooklyn 	Anatoly 	
2018	The Last Man 	Noe 	Post-production
2018	See You Soon 	 	Post-production
=== Television ===
Year 	Film 	Role 	Notes
1966 	Hogan's Heroes 	German Soldier 	Episode: "The Great Impersonation"
1966 	Dark Shadows 	Blue Whale customer 	2 episodes
1968 	N.Y.P.D. 	Ramby 	Episode: "Case of the Shady Lady"
1971 	Great Performances 	Jerry 	Episode: "A Memory of Two Mondays"
1973 	Kojak 	Jerry Talaba 	Episode: "Siege of Terror"
1974 	The F.B.I. 	Ernie 	Episode: "Deadly Ambition"
1974 	A Memory of Two Mondays	Jerry 	Television film
1984 	La bella Otero 	Ernest Jurgens 	Television film
1985 	Amazing Stories 	Byron Sullivan 	Episode: "Vanessa in the Garden"
1986 	The Ellen Burstyn Show 	Frank Tanner 	Episode: "Reading Between the Lines"
1988 	The Play on One 	Carl 	Episode: "Down Where The Buffalo Go"
2000 	Fail Safe 	Brig Gen Warren A. Black	Television film
2002 	Saturday Night Live 	Siegfried 	Episode: "Robert De Niro/Norah Jones"
2006 	The Path to 9/11 	John O'Neill 	Miniseries
2008–2009	Life on Mars(U.S.) 	Lieutenant Gene Hunt 	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2012 	Fatal Honeymoon 	Tommy Thomas 	Television film
2016 	Inside Amy Schumer 	Proposition Man 	Episode: "Fame"