Harvey Keitel
Milestones
- Birthplace: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Birthday: May 13, 1939
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2008
Made debut as TV series regular on ABC's "Life on Mars" playing Det. Gene Hunt
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2007
Costarred in Justin Theroux's directing debut, "Dedication," a romantic comedy premiered at Sundance
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2007
Re-teamed with Nicolas Cage for "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"
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2004
Starred opposite Nicolas Cage in Jon Turteltaub's "National Treasure"
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2003
Starred as as the mysterious and secretive grandfather "Che" in Juan Gerard's "Dreaming of Julia"
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2002
Played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "Red Dragon," a prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"
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2002
Portrayed a Nazi in "The Grey Zone"; directed by Tim Blake Nelson; also served as an executive producer
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2000
Acted in the all-star ensemble of Jonathan Mostow's WWII submarine drama "U-571"
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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
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1999
Reteamed with Campion for "Holy Smoke!" as an aging cult deprogrammer who more than meets his match in Kate Winslet
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1998
Portrayed Elvis (who thinks he really is "The King") in "Finding Graceland"
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1998
Starred in Auster's solo directing effort, "Lulu on the Bridge"
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1997
Fourth film with De Niro, James Mangold's "Cop Land"
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1997
Teamed with Cameron Diaz in the misfire "Head Above Water"; premiered on HBO before receiving limited theatrical release
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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
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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
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1994
Portrayed the Wolf in Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"
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1994
Was a UNICEF spokesperson on behalf of the youngest victims in the war-torn land formerly known as Yugoslavia
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1993
Cast as the "gone-native" man who eventually romances a mute Scottish woman in "The Piano"; first film with writer-director Jane Campion
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1993
Reteamed with Ferrara for "Dangerous Game"
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1992
Essayed the title role of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant"
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1992
First producing credit as the co-producer of "Reservoir Dogs"; directed by Quentin Tarantino; also starred
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1991
Played mobster Mickey Cohen in "Bugsy"; scripted by Toback; earned Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor
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1991
Retemed with Rudolph to appear in the thriller "Mortal Thoughts"
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1991
Reunited with Ridley Scott to play an FBI agent in "Thelma & Louise"
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1990
Cast opposite Jack Nicholson (who also directed) as the titular "The Two Jakes," a loose sequel to "Chinatown"
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1988
Played Judas Iscariot in Scorsese's "Last Temptation of Christ"; scripted by Schrader
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1987
Third film with Toback, "The Pick-Up Artist"
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1986
Appeared with then companion Lorraine Bracco in Rabe's "Goose and Tom-Tom"
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1985
Missed about a quarter of his performances in the Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind"
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1984
Co-starred with William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Ron Silver in the Broadway play "Hurlyburly"
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1983
Reteamed with Toback on "Exposed"
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1980
Had his "Brooklyn-real" voice dubbed over in the sci-fi flop "Saturn 3"
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1978
Starred with Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto as auto workers in Schrader's directorial debut, "Blue Collar"
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1977
First collaboration with filmmaker James Toback as the star of "Fingers"
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1977
Headlined the cast of Ridley Scott's period adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Duellists"
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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
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1976
Cast in "Apocalypse Now"; had a falling out with Coppola; fired on location in the Phillipines and replaced by Martin Sheen
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1976
Portrayed Jodie Foster's lover-pimp in Scorsese's "Taxi Driver"; scripted by Paul Schrader; second feature with De Niro
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1975
Broadway debut as Happy in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"; starred George C Scott as Willy Loman
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1974
First notable TV appearance, "A Memory of Two Mondays" for PBS' "Great Performances"
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1974
Played Bugsy Siegel to Dyan Cannon's Virginia Hill in the NBC biopic "The Virginia Hill Story"
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1974
Played the abusive boyfriend of Ellen Burstyn's Alice in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"; again collaborated with Scorsese
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1973
Breakthrough role in Scorsese's first major feature, "Mean Streets"; first collaboration with Robert De Niro
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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
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1967
Film debut in "Who's That Knocking at My Door?"; first collaboration with Scorsese
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1965
Answered a newspaper advertisement placed by Martin Scorsese, then an NYU student director, seeking actors for his first film
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1965
Off-Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "Up To Thursday" at the Cherry Lane Theater
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1956 to 1959
Joined the US Marine Corps at age 16 and served in Lebanon; got his high school equivalency diploma while a Marine
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Grew-up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, NY
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Joined the Actors Studio
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Worked as a court stenographer at Manhattan Criminal Court for eight years
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Worked as a shoe salesman
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Worked for over ten years in summer stock, repertory, off-off-Broadway, coffee houses and community theater
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