Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel is an American actor, born the May 13rd 1939 with Brooklyn, New York (the United States). In the majority of the French versions of films, Harvey Keitel is doubled by Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu and Daniel Rousseau.

Biography

Resulting from the Actors Studio, Keitel, old navy, begins its career at the sides from Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in films such as Who' S That Knocking At My Door (1967) Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976). It leaves the turning of Apocalypse Now for difference in opinion with Francis Ford Coppola (1979) at the end of two weeks of turning. It also left the turning of film of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut .

In disgrace in the American studios, it turns then in European productions: Death on line of Bertrand Tavernier (1980), the Night of Varennes of Ettore Scola (1982)… As from 1992 its career finds a second breath, in particular with Reservoir Dogs that it by-product with Quentin Tarantino in 1992, but also Bad Lieutenant of Abel Ferrara (1992) or the Piano lesson of Jane Campion (1993). These films offer a celebrity to him whom it had not then conquered and allow him to carry out its career between films of authors and large Hollywood productions.

A speciality

In the beginning of its career, Harvey Keitel is defined an original speciality: that to turn with initial realizers of which some became very famous besides. Thus he played the first part in first film of a superstar of the realizers of the American cinema: Martin Scorcese, in the film Who' S that knocking At my door? ; but also another immense American realizer: Ridley Scott, with which it made the film The duellists . He also played in one of first films of Alan Rudolph: Welcome to L.A. . James Toback carried out to him also its first film with Harvey Keitel: Fingers , while Paul Schrader also yielded him vis-a-vis this fashion in its film Blue Ellar .

Selective catalog of films

External bond

  • Harvey Keitel on Internet Movie Database

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