Harvey Keitel

American actor

  • Fame62.8
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Born 1939 · age 87United States

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  • Age
    87
    Born 1939
  • Known for
    Pulp Fiction
    1994
Summary
Updated 2026-08-30

He's been the moral wild card in American cinema for five decades—the cop who spirals, the criminal with a code, the man you can't quite read. Directors from Scorsese to Tarantino to Wes Anderson keep casting him because Keitel makes ambiguity look like truth.

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Born May 13, 1939, Harvey Keitel came up through New York's Actors Studio and broke through in Martin Scorsese's 1967 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door, launching a collaboration that would stretch across six films and fifty years, from Mean Streets to The Irishman. He became a fixture of the New Hollywood movement playing tough guys whose toughness concealed something harder to name. The early '90s brought wider recognition: an Oscar nomination for Bugsy's Mickey Cohen in 1991, a defining turn as Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs in 1992, then Bad Lieutenant and The Piano in back-to-back years,…

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Completeness75.0
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