John Turturro
Actor
Born February 28, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020.
Filmography
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry
Wilder & Me
I.A.L. Diamond
When the Music Changes
The Cut
Boz
The Room Next Door
Damian
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane
Can't Go Home
Paulo Santana
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Dottore (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (voice)
Potentially Dangerous
Forty Winks
Milo
The Batman
Carmine Falcone
Severance
Irving Bailiff
The Oedipus Project
Creon
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self
The Plot Against America
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Mr. Silk
Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice)
The Jesus Rolls
Jesus Quintana
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Self
Gloria Bell
Arnold
The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
Frank Serpico
Self
Landline
Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
Agent Simmons
Hair
Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
Hands of Stone
Frankie Carbo
The Night Of
John Stone
The Ridiculous 6
Abner Doubleday
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Difficult People
Dusty
Mia madre
Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
Senza Lucio
Self
The Italian Americans
Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sethos I
Rio, I Love You
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
God's Pocket
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Gods Behaving Badly
Hades
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Himself
Finding Your Roots
Self
In the Shadow of No Towers
Narrator
Somewhere Tonight
Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Simmons
Cars 2
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Nutcracker
The Rat King
Passione
Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Simmons
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Lt. Camonetti
What Just Happened
Dick Bell
Miracle at St. Anna
Detective Antonio Ri
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Self
Margot at the Wedding
Jim
The Bronx Is Burning
Billy Martin
Transformers
Agent Simmons
Flight of the Conchords
Credits Cop
Brando
Self
Brando: The Documentary
Self
Slipstream
Harvey Brickman
The Good Shepherd
Raymond Brocco
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
himself
Rachael Ray
A Few Days in September
William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
Vanzetti (Voice)
Romance & Cigarettes
Male Dancer & Singer
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Son
She Hate Me
Don Angelo Bonasera
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
2BPerfectlyHonest
Sal / Roberto
Secret Window
John Shooter
Secret Passage
Paolo Zane
Opopomoz
John (voice)
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Anger Management
Chuck
Fear X
Harry
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Monk
Ambrose Monk
Mr. Deeds
Emilio Lopez
Collateral Damage
Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem
Howard Cosell
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Walker
Monkeybone
Monkeybone (voice)
The Coen Brothers
Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried
Dante Dominio
The Luzhin Defence
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None
Benjamin Kasparian
Company Man
Crocker Johnson
Cradle Will Rock
Aldo Silvano
Summer of Sam
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
The Source
Allen Ginsberg
Rounders
Joey Knish
Illuminata
Tuccio
He Got Game
Billy Sunday
All Revved Up
Johnny Candellano
The Big Lebowski
Jesus Quintana
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tuxedo Man
Lesser Prophets
Leon
The Truce
Primo Levi
Grace of My Heart
Joel Millner
Box of Moonlight
Al Fountain
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Girl 6
Murray - the Agent
Sugartime
Sam Giancana
Clockers
Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes
Sid Lidz
Search and Destroy
Ron
At Sundance
Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Disco Bean
Baseball
Various (voice)
Quiz Show
Herb Stempel
Being Human
Lucinnius
Fearless
Dr. Bill Perlman
Frasier
Grant (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
Mac
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Brain Donors
Roland T. Flakfizer
Barton Fink
Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
Pauline Carbone
Men Of Respect
Mike Battaglia
Miller's Crossing
Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace
Nick
Mo' Better Blues
Moe Flatbush
Catchfire
Pinella
Do the Right Thing
Pino
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Larry
The Sicilian
Pisciotta
Five Corners
Heinz Sabatino
The Color of Money
Julian
Off Beat
Neil Pepper
Gung Ho
Willie
Hannah and Her Sisters
TV Writer
To Live and Die in L.A.
Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ray
The Flamingo Kid
Ted from Pinky's
Miami Vice
David Traynor
Exterminator 2
Guy #1
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
Raging Bull
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Oscars
Self
The Emmy Awards
Self