Harvey Keitel

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Harvey Keitel (2015)

Harvey Keitel [ 'hɑːvɪ kaɪ'tɛl ] (born May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American actor who has been a sought-after character actor in Hollywood since the 1970s. He is considered a representative of method acting .

biography

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Keitel in 2009

Harvey Keitel is a son of Jewish emigrants; his father Harry Keitel came from Poland and his mother Miriam from Maramures in Romania . Keitel was born in Brighton Beach , Brooklyn and grew up in a poor family with his sister Renee and brother Jerry. After high school , he immediately went to the Marines for a year to keep himself afloat financially. He was released shortly before the start of the Vietnam War and then turned into a staunch pacifist . (He advocated the 2003 invasion of Iraq.) After his release from the Marines, he worked as a court clerk, a profession that his brother Jerry later pursued.

In 1967 Keitel took acting lessons from Frank Corsaro and Stella Adler and learned the technique of method acting from them . As a member of the renowned Actors Studio , he was seen on many New York stages from the mid-1960s . He made his Broadway debut in a play by Arthur Miller . In 1968 Keitel worked in Who is knocking on my door? , the thesis of the then directing student Martin Scorsese , and became friends with him. Scorsese later cast him for his hit films Hexenkessel (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here (1974), Taxi Driver (1976) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Keitel was hired by Francis Ford Coppola to play the leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979), but sacked after two weeks because Coppola was dissatisfied with his performance ( Martin Sheen took over the role).

In 1993, Keitel received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor for his role in Abel Ferrara's low-budget film Bad Lieutenant . In it he plays a worn-out, corrupt police officer who finds peace of mind and redemption in a kind of passion story just before he is shot in his car. In this film as well as in Ridley Scott's debut The Duelists (1976) Keitel showed that he is one of the leading American character actors. Keitel's final international breakthrough came with a director's first work, Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino . His next film, Bugsy , earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1991 .

In the following years he was seen in the box office hits Thelma & Louise , Sister Act , Bad Lieutenant , Jane Campions Das Piano and The Cradle of the Sun, among others. He achieved cult status through Pulp Fiction ( Quentin Tarantino ) and From Dusk Till Dawn ( Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino).

Keitel alongside Harry Belafonte (2011)

During his long career, Keitel earned a reputation as an outstanding representative of method acting, but was never one of the box office Hollywood stars (such as Al Pacino or Robert De Niro ). However, the actor was seen in numerous box office hits in prominent supporting roles. He usually played prominent leading roles in artistically ambitious productions on a low budget. However, the success of some films with him was not foreseeable beforehand. By taking on many roles, Keitel encouraged talents like Quentin Tarantino or art filmmakers like Abel Ferrara . For the film Smoke he and the director Wayne Wang received the special jury award , the Silver Bear , at the 1995 Berlinale .

Keitel was dubbed in German by Christian Brückner , Fred Maire and Joachim Kerzel .

Keitel has been married to actress Daphna Kastner since 2001 , with whom he has a son. He has a daughter from a previous relationship with Lorraine Bracco and a son, Hudson Keitel Karmazin, from an affair with the artist Lisa Karmazin, where "Keitel" is the child's middle name and not part of the surname.

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literature

  • Marshall Fine: Harvey Keitel. The Art of Darkness . New York 1997, ISBN 0-00-255808-4 .
  • Simon Laisney: Le jeu de Harvey Keitel dans les films de Martin Scorsese . Paris 2009, ISBN 2-296-07599-1 .

Web links

Commons : Harvey Keitel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "This year in Czernowitz ", documentary 2003/2004, director: Volker Koepp
  2. ↑ Entry in the German synchronous index (last access: September 18, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Keitel, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City