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Harvey Keitel

Age: 70
Height: 5' 7 1/2"

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: May. 13th, 1939

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Harvey Keitel's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Life on Mars	Lt. Gene Hunt

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Came to prominence in the early films of Martin Scorsese after working in theatre for around ten years, particularly Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976). Faded into anonymity in the eighties even though he turned in some impressive performances in films by some of America's leading directors. He re-emergered into star status with his role as Mr. White in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992), Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Piano (1993) 0110912.

TRIVIA:

Graduated from the BFA program at the prestigious Actors Studio, New School University in New York city, under Dean 'James Lipton' (qv).
His last name is pronounced "ky-tel".
Although he frequently plays Italian-American characters, Keitel is of Polish and Romanian Jewish heritage.
(1999) Dated 'Andie MacDowell' (qv).
Shares two roles with 'Dennis Farina' (qv). At the end of _Get Shorty (1995)_ (qv), he plays the Dennis Farina character in the movie-within-a-movie. Farina also originated the role of Jack Crawford in _Manhunter (1986)_ (qv), a role that Keitel played in the remake _Red Dragon (2002)_ (qv).
(August 2004) Son, Roman, with wife 'Daphna Kastner' (qv).
Served in the U. S. Marines.
Has demonstrated extraordinary enthusiasm for working with first-time directors, from 'Martin Scorsese' (qv) in 1968 to 'Ridley Scott' (qv), 'Paul Schrader (I)' (qv), 'James Toback' (qv), 'Quentin Tarantino' (qv), and in 1999, Vietnamese-American 'Tony Bui' (qv).