Harvey Keitel Highlights

  • 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: Portrayed a Nazi in "The Grey Zone"; directed by Tim Blake Nelson; also served as an executive producer
  • 2002: Played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "Red Dragon," a prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"
  • 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: Starred in Auster's solo directing effort, "Lulu on the Bridge"
  • 1998: Portrayed Elvis (who thinks he really is "The King") in "Finding Graceland"
  • 1997: Teamed with Cameron Diaz in the misfire "Head Above Water"; premiered on HBO before receiving limited theatrical release
  • 1997: Fourth film with De Niro, James Mangold's "Cop Land"
  • 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: Retemed with Rudolph to appear in the thriller "Mortal Thoughts"
  • 1991: Reunited with Ridley Scott to play an FBI agent in "Thelma & Louise"
  • 1991: Played mobster Mickey Cohen in "Bugsy"; scripted by Toback; earned Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor
  • 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: Headlined the cast of Ridley Scott's period adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, "The Duellists"
  • 1977: First collaboration with filmmaker James Toback as the star of "Fingers"
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1975: Broadway debut as Happy in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"; starred George C Scott as Willy Loman
  • 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
  • 1974: First notable TV appearance, "A Memory of Two Mondays" for PBS' "Great Performances"
  • 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: Off-Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "Up To Thursday" at the Cherry Lane Theater
  • 1965: Answered a newspaper advertisement placed by Martin Scorsese, then an NYU student director, seeking actors for his first film
  • 1956: Joined the US Marine Corps at age 16 and served in Lebanon; got his high school equivalency diploma while a Marine
  • Worked as a shoe salesman
  • Joined the Actors Studio
  • Grew-up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, NY
  • Worked as a court stenographer at Manhattan Criminal Court for eight years
  • Worked for over ten years in summer stock, repertory, off-off-Broadway, coffee houses and community theater

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