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When Harvey Keitel became involved in Reservoir Dogs, he agreed to act in the film and co-produce. Harvey Keitel was then cast as Mr. White. With Keitel's assistance, the filmmakers were able to raise $1.5 million to make the film.

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  • When Harvey Keitel became involved in Reservoir Dogs, he agreed to act in the film and co-produce. Harvey Keitel was then cast as Mr. White. With Keitel's assistance, the filmmakers were able to raise $1.5 million to make the film.
  • Harvey Keitel (born September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe) is a Jewish-American Actor, Problem-Solver, and Nazi-Hunter. His life and times helped inspire some of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters and directors to produce classic films like Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, and Carrot Top's Chairman of the Board. Just last month Keitel disposed of the body of a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp commander by depositing the corpse in the trunk of a 1972 Oldsmobile and crushing the car in an industrial-size scrap-metal compacter in an Argentine junk yard.
  • Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) played an uncredited Blue Whale extra in episode 33 of the original Dark Shadows.
  • Harvey Keitel is an American actor and producer. He is best known for starring in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise (1991), Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio, which claims itself to be considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school". Other notable films include, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Bugsy (1991), U-571 (2000), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Moonrise Kingdom (2012).
  • Keitel also starred in Red Dragon as FBI agent Jack Crawford.
  • Harvey Keital is an American actor who portrayed Peter Sadusky in National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
  • Consummate Badass actor, born May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, best known for such movies as Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Mother, Jugs, & Speed, The Last Temptation of Christ, The January Man, The Two Jakes, Thelma and Louise, Bugsy, Reservoir Dogs, Sister Act, Bad Lieutenant, Point Of No Return, The Piano, Rising Sun, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk till Dawn, Cop Land, Little Nicky, Red Dragon, National Treasure, Be Cool, and Inglourious Basterds (only over the phone, but trust us, you will recognize him). He also played Gene Hunt in the American version of Life On Mars; much like Philip Glenister in the British original, he was the best thing on the show. A former United States Marine, he is frequently revered as one of cinema's greatest actors for badass roles
  • Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hatmaker.
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  • Harvey Keitel in his younger, bad-ass years, circa 1990
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  • When Harvey Keitel became involved in Reservoir Dogs, he agreed to act in the film and co-produce. Harvey Keitel was then cast as Mr. White. With Keitel's assistance, the filmmakers were able to raise $1.5 million to make the film.
  • Harvey Keitel (born September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe) is a Jewish-American Actor, Problem-Solver, and Nazi-Hunter. His life and times helped inspire some of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters and directors to produce classic films like Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, and Carrot Top's Chairman of the Board. Just last month Keitel disposed of the body of a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp commander by depositing the corpse in the trunk of a 1972 Oldsmobile and crushing the car in an industrial-size scrap-metal compacter in an Argentine junk yard.
  • Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) played an uncredited Blue Whale extra in episode 33 of the original Dark Shadows.
  • Harvey Keitel is an American actor and producer. He is best known for starring in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise (1991), Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio, which claims itself to be considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school". Other notable films include, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Bugsy (1991), U-571 (2000), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Moonrise Kingdom (2012).
  • Consummate Badass actor, born May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, best known for such movies as Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Mother, Jugs, & Speed, The Last Temptation of Christ, The January Man, The Two Jakes, Thelma and Louise, Bugsy, Reservoir Dogs, Sister Act, Bad Lieutenant, Point Of No Return, The Piano, Rising Sun, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk till Dawn, Cop Land, Little Nicky, Red Dragon, National Treasure, Be Cool, and Inglourious Basterds (only over the phone, but trust us, you will recognize him). He also played Gene Hunt in the American version of Life On Mars; much like Philip Glenister in the British original, he was the best thing on the show. A former United States Marine, he is frequently revered as one of cinema's greatest actors for badass roles that nevertheless require emotional range, possibly equaling Robert De Niro despite his lack of awards.
  • Keitel also starred in Red Dragon as FBI agent Jack Crawford.
  • Harvey Keital is an American actor who portrayed Peter Sadusky in National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
  • Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hatmaker. Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School (New York). At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, a decision that took him to Lebanon. After his return to the United States, he was a court reporter and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career.
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