American actor
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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.
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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