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.

Filmography

• 2027Fate
• 2026Hellfire — Jeremiah
• 2026Kill Code — Eion
• 2025Laws of Man — Cassidy Whittaker
• 2025Milarepa — Marpa
• 2025The Letter — Finn O'Brien
• 2025The Wrecker — Dante
• 2024Joe Baby — Randall Kane
• 2024Paradox Effect — Silvio
• 2024Spread — Frank Ferretti
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz — Lali Sokolov (Old)
• 2023The Baker — Merchant
• Mike — Cus D'Amato
• National Treasure: Edge of History — Peter Sadusky
• 2021Blood on the Crown — General Hunter Blair
• 2021Lansky — Meyer Lansky
• 2020Fatima — Professor Nichols
• 2019Esau — Abraham
• 2019See You Soon — Billy
• 2019The Irishman — Angelo Bruno
• 2019The Painted Bird — Priest
• 2018First We Take Brooklyn — Anatoly
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Gondo (voice)
• 2018Lies We Tell — Demi
• 2018The Last Man — Noe
• 2017Madame — Bob Fredericks
• 2016Chosen — Papi
• 2016The Comedian — Mac Schiltz
• 2015Outlaws — The Director
• 2015The Ridiculous 6 — Smiley
• 2015Youth — Mick Boyle
• 2014By the Gun — Salvatore Vitaglia
• 2014Gandhi of the Month — Edward Baker
• 2014Rio, I Love You — O Ator
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Ludwig
• 2014Two Men in Town — Bill Agati
• 2013A Farewell to Fools — Father Johanis
• 2013The Congress — Al
• 2012Fatal Honeymoon — Tommy Thomas
• 2012Moonrise Kingdom — Commander Pierce
• 2010A Beginner's Guide to Endings — Duke White
• 2010Little Fockers — Randy Weir
• 2010The Last Godfather — Don Carini
• 2009Inglourious Basterds — OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
• 2009The Ministers — Joseph Bruno
• 2009Wrong Turn at Tahoe — Nino
• Life on Mars — Lt. Gene Hunt
• 2007My Sexiest Year — Zowie
• 2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets — Sadusky
• 2007One Last Dance — Terrtano
• 2006A Crime — Roger Culkin
• 2006Arthur and the Invisibles — Miro (voice)
• The Path to 9/11 — John O'Neill
• 2006The Stone Merchant — The Merchant
• 2005Be Cool — Nick Carr
• 2005Shadows in the Sun — Weldon Parish
• 2004National Treasure — Sadusky
• 2004Puerto Vallarta Squeeze — Walter McGrane
• 2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Uncle Pio
• 2003Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
• 2003Chasing The Elephant — The Mystery Man
• 2003Crime Spree — Frankie Zammeti
• 2003Dreaming of Julia — Che, Producer
• 2003Ginostra — Matt Benson
• 2003The Galíndez File — Edward Robards
• 2002Beeper — Zolo
• 2002Nowhere — El Gringo
• 2002Red Dragon — Jack Crawford
• 2002Taking Sides — Steve Arnold
• 2001Nailed — Tony Romano
• 2001The Grey Zone — SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt, Executive Producer
• 2000Fail Safe — Brig. Gen. Warren Black
• 2000Little Nicky — Dad
• 2000Presence of Mind — The Master
• 2000Prince of Central Park — The Guardian
• 2000U-571 — CPO Henry Klough
• 2000Viper — Leone
• 1999Holy Smoke — PJ Waters
• 1999Three Seasons — James Hager, Executive Producer
• 1998Finding Graceland — Elvis
• 1998Gunslinger's Revenge — Johnny Lowen
• 1998Lulu on the Bridge — Izzy Maurer
• 1998Shadrach — Vernon
• 1997City of Industry — Roy Egan
• 1997Cop Land — Ray Donlan
• 1997FairyTale: A True Story — Harry Houdini
• 1996From Dusk Till Dawn — Jacob Fuller
• 1996Head Above Water — George
• 1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IV — Byron Sullivan (archive footage)
• 1995Blue in the Face — Auggie Wren, Executive Producer
• 1995Clockers — Det. Rocco Klein
• 1995Get Shorty — Harvey Keitel (uncredited)
• 1995Smoke — Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
• 1995Ulysses' Gaze — A
• 1994Imaginary Crimes — Ray Weiler
• 1994Monkey Trouble — Azro
• 1994Pulp Fiction — The Wolf
• 1994Somebody to Love — Harry Harrelson
• 1994Who Do You Think You're Fooling? — Mr. White (archive footage)
• 1993Dangerous Game — Eddie Israel
• 1993Point of No Return — Victor the Cleaner
• 1993Rising Sun — Lt. Tom Graham
• 1993The Piano — George Baines
• 1993The Young Americans — John Harris
• 1992Bad Lieutenant — LT
• 1992Reservoir Dogs — Mr. White / Larry Dimmick, Co-Producer
• 1992Sister Act — Vince LaRocca
• 1991Bugsy — Mickey Cohen
• 1991Mortal Thoughts — Det. John Woods
• 1991Thelma & Louise — Hal
• 1990Drums of Fire — Sandoval
• 1990The Two Jakes — Julius "Jake" Berman
• 1990Two Evil Eyes — Roderick Usher
• 1990White Hunter — Thomas
• 1989Imagining America
• 1989The January Man — Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
• 1989This Ain't Bebop
• 1988Dear Gorbachev — Nikolaj Bucharin
• 1988Down Where the Buffalo Go — Carl
• 1988The Last Temptation of Christ — Judas
• The Play on One — Carl
• 1987Blindside — Penfield Gruber
• 1987Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam — Donald Jacques (voice)
• 1987The Pick-up Artist — Alonzo Scolara
• 1986Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) — Frankie
• 1986Off Beat — Mickey
• 1986The American Bride — Sacha
• The Ellen Burstyn Show — Frank Tanner
• 1986The Inquiry — Ponzio Pilato
• 1986The Men's Club — Solly Berliner
• 1986Wise Guys — Bobby DiLea
• Amazing Stories — Byron Sullivan
• 1985Baciami Strega
• 1985Star Knight — Klever
• 1985Vanessa in the Garden — Byron Sullivan
• 1984Dream One — Mr. Legend
• 1984Falling in Love — Ed Lasky
• La bella Otero — Ernest Jurgens
• 1983A Stone in the Mouth — The Fugitive
• 1983Copkiller — Lt. Fred O'Connor
• 1983Exposed — Rivas
• American Playhouse — Harvey Keitel
• 1982That Night of Varennes — Thomas Paine
• 1982The Border — Cat
• 1980Bad Timing — Inspector Netusil
• 1980Death Watch — Roddy
• 1980Saturn 3 — Benson
• 1979Eagle's Wing — Henry
• 1978Blue Collar — Jerry Bartowski
• 1978Fingers — Jimmy Fingers
• 1977The Duellists — Gabriel Feraud
• 1976Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson — The Relative (Ed Goodman)
• 1976Mother, Jugs & Speed — Speed
• 1976Taxi Driver — Sport
• 1976Welcome to L.A. — Ken Hood
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Siegfried (uncredited)
• 1975That's the Way of the World — Coleman Buckmaster
• 1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore — Ben Eberhardt
• 1974Virginia Hill — Bugsy Siegel
• Kojak — Jerry Talaba
• 1973Mean Streets — Charlie Cappa
• 1973Pueblo — Seaman (uncredited)
• 1971A Memory of Two Mondays — Jerry
• 1971Brewster McCloud — The Photographer (uncredited)
• Great Performances — Jerry
• 1970Street Scenes 1970 — Self, Still Photographer
• 1968Who's That Knocking at My Door — J.R.
• 1967Reflections in a Golden Eye — Soldier (uncredited)
• Hogan's Heroes — German Soldier (uncredited)
• The F.B.I. — Ernie
• Live Fast, Die Laughing
• Minute Mark
• Paradise Inc. — Hubert Humbolt
• Pawn Shop
• Theirs
• Untitled Harvey Keitel/Daphna Kastner Film

Appearances as themselves (35)

• 2024Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film — Self (archive footage)
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
• 2023Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 202011 Colours of the Bird — Self
• 2016Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A — Self
• 2015Behind the White Glasses — Self
• 2015Scorsese's GoodFellas — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2005The Outsider — Self
• 2004This Year in Czernowitz — Self
• 2003A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' — Self
• 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• 2003The John Garfield Story — Self
• 2002Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• 2001Adam Sandler Goes to Hell — Self
• 2000The Ten Commandments of Creativity — Self
• 1999Making 'Taxi Driver' — Self
• 1998Full Tilt Boogie — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1994Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder — Self
• 1993Inside 'The Piano' — Self
• 1992Blast 'Em — Self (uncredited)
• 1990Martin Scorsese Directs — Self
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self
• 1988Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ — Self
• Omnibus — Self
• The Oscars — Self