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Harvey Keitel

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Birthday: May 13, 1939
  • 2008

    Made debut as TV series regular on ABC's "Life on Mars" playing Det. Gene Hunt

  • 2007

    Costarred in Justin Theroux's directing debut, "Dedication," a romantic comedy premiered at Sundance

  • 2007

    Re-teamed with Nicolas Cage for "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"

  • 2004

    Starred opposite Nicolas Cage in Jon Turteltaub's "National Treasure"

  • 2003

    Starred as as the mysterious and secretive grandfather "Che" in Juan Gerard's "Dreaming of Julia"

  • 2002

    Played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "Red Dragon," a prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"

  • 2002

    Portrayed a Nazi in "The Grey Zone"; directed by Tim Blake Nelson; also served as an executive producer

  • 2000

    Acted in the all-star ensemble of Jonathan Mostow's WWII submarine drama "U-571"

  • 1999

    Played a former GI who returns to Vietnam seeking the daughter he left behind in Tony Bui's "Three Seasons"; film selected as Vietnam's entry for the 1999 Best Foreign-Language Academy Award

  • 1999

    Reteamed with Campion for "Holy Smoke!" as an aging cult deprogrammer who more than meets his match in Kate Winslet

  • 1998

    Portrayed Elvis (who thinks he really is "The King") in "Finding Graceland"

  • 1998

    Starred in Auster's solo directing effort, "Lulu on the Bridge"

  • 1997

    Fourth film with De Niro, James Mangold's "Cop Land"

  • 1997

    Teamed with Cameron Diaz in the misfire "Head Above Water"; premiered on HBO before receiving limited theatrical release

  • 1996

    Cast as a solemn preacher held hostage by two derranged criminals (Tarantino and George Clooney) in the Tarantino-scripted "From Dusk Till Dawn"; directed by Robert Rodriguez

  • 1995

    Co-starred with William Hurt as a cigar store manager in "Smoke"; directed by Wayne Wang and scripted by Paul Auster; reprised role in the companion film "Blue in the Face"; served as executive producer on the latter

  • 1994

    Portrayed the Wolf in Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"

  • 1994

    Was a UNICEF spokesperson on behalf of the youngest victims in the war-torn land formerly known as Yugoslavia

  • 1993

    Cast as the "gone-native" man who eventually romances a mute Scottish woman in "The Piano"; first film with writer-director Jane Campion

  • 1993

    Reteamed with Ferrara for "Dangerous Game"

  • 1992

    Essayed the title role of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant"

  • 1992

    First producing credit as the co-producer of "Reservoir Dogs"; directed by Quentin Tarantino; also starred

  • 1991

    Played mobster Mickey Cohen in "Bugsy"; scripted by Toback; earned Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor

  • 1991

    Retemed with Rudolph to appear in the thriller "Mortal Thoughts"

  • 1991

    Reunited with Ridley Scott to play an FBI agent in "Thelma & Louise"

  • 1990

    Cast opposite Jack Nicholson (who also directed) as the titular "The Two Jakes," a loose sequel to "Chinatown"

  • 1988

    Played Judas Iscariot in Scorsese's "Last Temptation of Christ"; scripted by Schrader

  • 1987

    Third film with Toback, "The Pick-Up Artist"

  • 1986

    Appeared with then companion Lorraine Bracco in Rabe's "Goose and Tom-Tom"

  • 1985

    Missed about a quarter of his performances in the Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind"

  • 1984

    Co-starred with William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Ron Silver in the Broadway play "Hurlyburly"

  • 1983

    Reteamed with Toback on "Exposed"

  • 1980

    Had his "Brooklyn-real" voice dubbed over in the sci-fi flop "Saturn 3"

  • 1978

    Starred with Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto as auto workers in Schrader's directorial debut, "Blue Collar"

  • 1977

    First collaboration with filmmaker James Toback as the star of "Fingers"

  • 1977

    Headlined the cast of Ridley Scott's period adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Duellists"

  • 1976

    Acted in two screenplays written by Alan Rudolph: "Welcome to L.A.," directed by Rudolph and "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson," directed by Robert Altman

  • 1976

    Cast in "Apocalypse Now"; had a falling out with Coppola; fired on location in the Phillipines and replaced by Martin Sheen

  • 1976

    Portrayed Jodie Foster's lover-pimp in Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"; scripted by Paul Schrader; second feature with De Niro

  • 1975

    Broadway debut as Happy in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"; starred George C Scott as Willy Loman

  • 1974

    First notable TV appearance, "A Memory of Two Mondays" for PBS' "Great Performances"

  • 1974

    Played Bugsy Siegel to Dyan Cannon's Virginia Hill in the NBC biopic "The Virginia Hill Story"

  • 1974

    Played the abusive boyfriend of Ellen Burstyn's Alice in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"; again collaborated with Scorsese

  • 1973

    Breakthrough role in Scorsese's first major feature, "Mean Streets"; first collaboration with Robert De Niro

  • 1970

    Worked as a production assistant and provided stills for the little-seen documentary "Street Scenes 70"; Scorcese was production supervisor and post-production director

  • 1967

    Film debut in "Who's That Knocking at My Door?"; first collaboration with Scorsese

  • 1965

    Answered a newspaper advertisement placed by Martin Scorsese, then an NYU student director, seeking actors for his first film

  • 1965

    Off-Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "Up To Thursday" at the Cherry Lane Theater

  • 1956 to 1959

    Joined the US Marine Corps at age 16 and served in Lebanon; got his high school equivalency diploma while a Marine

  • Grew-up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, NY

  • Joined the Actors Studio

  • Worked as a court stenographer at Manhattan Criminal Court for eight years

  • Worked as a shoe salesman

  • Worked for over ten years in summer stock, repertory, off-off-Broadway, coffee houses and community theater

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