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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), …
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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. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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John Turturro's Filmography
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
as Harry
A Statement
as Dr. David Rose
The Cut
as Boz
The Room Next Door
as Damian
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Dottore (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront
as Elia Kazan (voice)
Forty Winks
as Milo
The Batman
as Carmine Falcone
The Oedipus Project
as Creon
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
as Self
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
as Mr. Silk
The Jesus Rolls
as Jesus Quintana
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
as Self
Gloria Bell
as Arnold
Frank Serpico
as Self
Landline
as Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Agent Simmons
Hair
as Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
as Self
Hands of Stone
as Frankie Carbo
The Ridiculous 6
as Abner Doubleday
Mia Madre
as Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
as Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
as Self
Senza Lucio
as Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Sethos I
Rio, I Love You
as Homem
God's Pocket
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Gods Behaving Badly
as Hades
Fading Gigolo
as Fioravante
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Self
In the Shadow of No Towers
as Narrator
Somewhere Tonight
as Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Simmons
Cars 2
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Nutcracker
as The Rat King
Passione
as Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
as Self
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
as Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
as Simmons
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Lt. Camonetti
What Just Happened
as Dick Bell
No Poster
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
as Himself
Miracle at St. Anna
as Detective Antonio Ri
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
as Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
as Self
No Poster
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Margot at the Wedding
as Jim
Transformers
as Agent Simmons
Brando
as Self
Slipstream
as Harvey Brickman
The Good Shepherd
as Raymond Brocco
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
as himself
A Few Days in September
as William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
as Vanzetti (Voice)
Romance & Cigarettes
as Male Dancer & Singer
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
as Son
She Hate Me
as Don Angelo Bonasera
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
2BPerfectlyHonest
as Sal / Roberto
Secret Window
as John Shooter
Secret Passage
as Paolo Zane
Opopomoz
as John (voice)
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
Anger Management
as Chuck
Fear X
as Harry
No Poster
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
as Narrator
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
No Poster
New York at the Movies
as Self
Mr. Deeds
as Emilio Lopez
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
Collateral Damage
as Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem
as Howard Cosell
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
as Walker
Monkeybone
as Monkeybone (voice)
The Coen Brothers
as Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried
as Dante Dominio
The Luzhin Defence
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None
as Benjamin Kasparian
Company Man
as Crocker Johnson
Cradle Will Rock
as Aldo Silvano
Summer of Sam
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
The Source
as Allen Ginsberg
Rounders
as Joey Knish
Illuminata
as Tuccio
He Got Game
as Billy Sunday
All Revved Up
as Johnny Candellano
The Big Lebowski
as Jesus Quintana
Animals with the Tollkeeper
as Tuxedo Man
Lesser Prophets
as Leon
The Truce
as Primo Levi
Grace of My Heart
as Joel Millner
Box of Moonlight
as Al Fountain
Girl 6
as Murray - the Agent
Sugartime
as Sam Giancana
Clockers
as Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes
as Sid Lidz
Search and Destroy
as Ron
At Sundance
as Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Disco Bean
Quiz Show
as Herb Stempel
Being Human
as Lucinnius
Fearless
as Dr. Bill Perlman
Mac
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Brain Donors
as Roland T. Flakfizer
Barton Fink
as Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
as Pauline Carbone
Men Of Respect
as Mike Battaglia
Miller's Crossing
as Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace
as Nick
Mo' Better Blues
as Moe Flatbush
Catchfire
as Pinella
No Poster
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
Do the Right Thing
as Pino
The Sicilian
as Pisciotta
Five Corners
as Heinz Sabatino
The Color of Money
as Julian
Off Beat
as Neil Pepper
Gung Ho
as Willie
Hannah and Her Sisters
as TV Writer
To Live and Die in L.A.
as Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan
as Ray
The Flamingo Kid
as Ted from Pinky's
Exterminator 2
as Guy #1
Raging Bull
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
No Poster
The Thing That Hurts
Wilder & Me
as I.A.L. Diamond