Harvey Keitel

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

To pigeonhole Harvey Keitel as a master of edgy degenerates and killers would have dismissed the actor’s many successes with surly husbands, benign cops and intrepid detectives. His prolific but slow-to-ignite career began with memorably unlikable supporting roles in Martin Scorsese character studies “Taxi Driver” (1976) and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1974), though he turned to European films shortly thereafter when he failed to find a suitable place in mainstream films. An Academy-Award nominated supporting role in “Bugsy…more