Harvey Keitel (1939-) is an Oscar®-nominated American actor. He has been appearing in movies for the last 6 decades. Most of his roles have been supporting ones, but he has also appeared in many leading roles too. His IMDb page shows 154 acting credits since 1968.
In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 68 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, cameos, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings on the table, but have a spot near the bottom of the page.
Harvey Keitel Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Harvel Keitel
1. Harvey Keitel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. He grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
2. Harvey Keitel’s parents were emigrants from Romania and Poland, respectively. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hat maker.
3. Harvey Keitel worked as a court stenographer in New York City for about 10 years while he was a struggling actor.
4. Harvey Keitel has appeared in six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: Taxi Driver (1976), Bugsy (1991), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
5. Harvey Keitel has starred in the debuts of three iconic directors: Martin Scorsese’s Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (1977) and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992). He also starred in the movies that would launch their careers: Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973) and Taratino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). He did miss out on Scott’s star making Alien (1979).
6. Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979). He was let go from the film, just two weeks into filming due to creative differences with director Francis Ford Coppola. Martin Sheen replaced him.
7. Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro have starred in 7 movies to together…from 1973’s Mean Streets to 2016’s The Comedian.
8. Harvey Keitel has been married once and has three children.
9. Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, Harvey Keitel is the current co-president of the Actors Studio.
10. Check out Harvey Keitel’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Just saw him in The Ridiculously Six the other day (catching up on Netflix movies these days). Overall I have seen 43 of his movies….and 33 of the ones listed here. Favorites would include #2 Pulp Fiction, #3 Reservoir Dogs (without Harvey Keitel there might be no Quentin T.) #21 National Treasure, #31 The Two Jakes…underrated sequel to a classic and #10 Bugsy. Lots of Martin Scorsese movies in the video…he has probably been in more Marty movies than anybody….but takes the back seat to Bobby D. and Leo D. when thinking of stars of Scorsese movies. Voted up and shared
I rated your Keitel video 98% for personal satisfaction. You and WH agree on just 2 of the Top 5 best reviewed. Normally it would surprise me that he has your No 3 Reservoir Dogs as low as 6th. Why then am I NOT surprised? Because dropping Reservoir Dogs out of the top 5 allows Mr Gimme More into the 5 with Moonrise Kingdom. When you know The Work Horse’s ways as I do you’ll soon be famiiar with his tricks!
BEST STILLS
1/Little Nicky
2/The Two Joels
3/Rising Sun
4/National Treasure 2
5/Falling in Love
6/The Border
7/Clockers
8/Bad Lieutenant-despite a fave of mine a very coarse movie
9/Youth
10/Blue Collar
11/Bugsy
12/The Englishman
13/Reservoir Dogs
14/Taxi Driver
BEST POSTER SETS in KEITEL VIDEO
1/Wise Guys
2/Holy Smoke
3/The Assassin
4/The Two Jakes
5/U571
6/Falling in Love\
7/Sister Act
8/Dusk till Dawn
9/Red Dragon
10/National Treasure [One]
11/Bad Lieutenant
12/Smoke
13/Youth
14/Isle of Dogs
15/Last temptation of Christ [foreign languagene
16/The Irishman
17/first one for The Piano
18/two for Mean Streets
19/2nd one for Reservoir Dogs
20/Pulp Fiction [first one]
HI STEVE: From the ridiculous back to the sublime: after that pesky Joe we are thankfully again in the situation where I can admire your pictorials AND your actor
In terms of top stardom it’s possible that Harvey is a “nearly man”. Coppola signed him for the plumb part of Willard in Apocalypse Now but after some scenes had been shot Francis decided for some reason that Keitel didn’t suit the role and he was replaced by Martin Sheen who went on to achieve a respectable measure of stardom.
Still Harvey’s big screen output has been enormous and WH lists 74 movies for him. The Keitel performances that I have most liked are: Bugsy; Bad Lieutenant; The Piano; Reservoir Dogs and recently Youth with Sir Maurice. As well as his big screen work Harvey has appeared in 18 television productions from 1966-2016.
I should add that his dismissal from Apocalypse Now didn’t deny him the opportunity of working with The Great Mumbler because in fact Harvey’s debut was in the uncredited role of a soldier in 1967’s Reflections in a Golden Eye starring Brando and Liz Taylor.
Harvey has a reported net worth of $45 million; and IMDB credits him with 27 acting awards and 23 noms. He has just completed the big screen drama Fatima; has two other movies at post- production stage; and has yet one more at pre-production stage. In 3 out of those 4 he is the top billed star.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous review, info and trivia, much appreciated. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Here in England we’re used to seeing Harvey Keitel in adverts for home insurance, not sure if the ads also play on Irish TV.
I thought about including Moonrise Kingdom but from what I remember Keitel only had a small role so I included Isle of Dogs instead, from the same director. Keitel probably had an even smaller role in the animated film but I like the poster. 😉
Seven of Harvey’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources –
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Mean Streets
The Piano
Thelma and Louise
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Two more scored 9 out of 10 – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and The Irishman.
“I don’t want people to think that awards amount to the value of an actor. Real success means involvement – to engage oneself totally in something. Unless you become involved, you will stay uninvolved. If money is your god, you will accumulate money, but little else. If you seek out the experience of something… you have a good chance to have a full life.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feeback and scoring explanations.
Yes we get Harvey’s insurance ads here in Ireland.
I like Harvey’s quote that you have given me about awards not amounting to the value of an actor – Work Horse and others who worship at the feet of Oscar take note!
My son – you know: the one who is a great Ladd fan!!! – is very fond of Havey in Bad Lieutenant.
Hope you weekend is going well.
It’s possible that Harvey is a “nearly man” in terms of movie stardom because as pointed out above he was originally cast in Apocalypse Now’s lead role only to be replaced by Marty Sheen on whom that movie did bestow stardom
For me among Harvey’s most standout performances are those in Reservoir Dogs which I think has become a cult film and 1992’s Bad Lieutenant which didn’t cut much ice with audiences but which is awarded a nice 73% rating by this site.
These days Harvey seems to advertise products on TV a lot but I was impressed with his performance in the 2015 Youth with Sir Maurice Micklewhite. For me it was refreshing to see two veterans act their age and yet turn in spellbinding, highly-entertaining performances. Clearly this site also appreciated Youth as it has a good 74% critical rating although again sadly not a great crowd pleaser.