John Turturro
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 28, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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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Filmography
Wilder & Me
Movie · as I.A.L. Diamond
The Thing That Hurts
Movie
Gatto
Movie · as Capitano Briganti (voice)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Movie · as Harry
A Statement
Movie · as Dr. David Rose
The Cut
Movie · as Boz
The Room Next Door
Movie · as Damian
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TV · as Eric Shane · 1 ep
Can't Go Home
TV · as Paulo Santana · 1 ep
Forty Winks
Movie · as Milo
High Noon on the Waterfront
Movie · as Elia Kazan (voice)
The Batman
Movie · as Carmine Falcone
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Movie · as Dottore (voice)
Severance
TV · as Irving Bailiff · 19 eps
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie · as Self
The Oedipus Project
Movie · as Creon
The Plot Against America
TV · as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf · 6 eps
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Drew Barrymore Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Jesus Rolls
Movie · as Jesus Quintana
Gloria Bell
Movie · as Arnold
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Movie · as Mr. Silk
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Movie · as Self
Green Eggs and Ham
TV · as Goat (voice) · 6 eps
The Name of the Rose
TV · as William of Baskerville · 8 eps
Landline
Movie · as Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie · as Agent Simmons
Frank Serpico
Movie · as Self
Hair
Movie · as Himself
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Movie · as Self
Hands of Stone
Movie · as Frankie Carbo
The Night Of
TV · as John Stone · 8 eps
Senza Lucio
Movie · as Self
Mia Madre
Movie · as Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Movie · as Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Movie · as Self
The Ridiculous 6
Movie · as Abner Doubleday
Difficult People
TV · as Dusty · 1 ep
The Italian Americans
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 4 eps
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Movie · as Sethos I
Fading Gigolo
Movie · as Fioravante
God's Pocket
Movie · as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Rio, I Love You
Movie · as Homem
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Movie · as Self
Gods Behaving Badly
Movie · as Hades
Finding Your Roots
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Movie · as Simmons
Cars 2
Movie · as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
Somewhere Tonight
Movie · as Leroy
In the Shadow of No Towers
Movie · as Narrator
The Nutcracker
Movie · as The Rat King
Passione
Movie · as Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Movie · as Simmons
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Movie · as Lt. Camonetti
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Movie
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Movie · as Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Movie · as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · 1 ep
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Movie · as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Movie · as Self
What Just Happened
Movie · as Dick Bell
Miracle at St. Anna
Movie · as Detective Antonio Ri
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Movie
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Movie · as Self
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
Movie · as Himself
Transformers
Movie · as Agent Simmons
Margot at the Wedding
Movie · as Jim
Slipstream
Movie · as Harvey Brickman
Brando
Movie · as Self
Flight of the Conchords
TV · as Credits Cop · 1 ep
The Bronx Is Burning
TV · as Billy Martin · 8 eps
Brando: The Documentary
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Good Shepherd
Movie · as Raymond Brocco
A Few Days in September
Movie · as William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti
Movie · as Vanzetti (Voice)
Romance & Cigarettes
Movie · as Male Dancer & Singer
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
Movie · as himself
Rachael Ray
TV · 1 ep
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Movie · as Son
Secret Window
Movie · as John Shooter
2BPerfectlyHonest
Movie · as Sal / Roberto
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Movie · as Self
Secret Passage
Movie · as Paolo Zane
She Hate Me
Movie · as Don Angelo Bonasera
Anger Management
Movie · as Chuck
Fear X
Movie · as Harry
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Movie · as Self
Opopomoz
Movie · as John (voice)
Mr. Deeds
Movie · as Emilio Lopez
Collateral Damage
Movie · as Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem
Movie · as Howard Cosell
New York at the Movies
Movie · as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Movie · as Self
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Movie · as Narrator
Heart of the Festival
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Monk
TV · as Ambrose Monk · 3 eps
Monkeybone
Movie · as Monkeybone (voice)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Movie · as Walker
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Movie · as Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried
Movie · as Dante Dominio
Company Man
Movie · as Crocker Johnson
The Luzhin Defence
Movie · as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None
Movie · as Benjamin Kasparian
The Coen Brothers
Movie · as Self
Cradle Will Rock
Movie · as Aldo Silvano
The Source
Movie · as Allen Ginsberg
Summer of Sam
Movie · as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
The Big Lebowski
Movie · as Jesus Quintana
Rounders
Movie · as Joey Knish
Illuminata
Movie · as Tuccio
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Movie · as Tuxedo Man
He Got Game
Movie · as Billy Sunday
All Revved Up
Movie · as Johnny Candellano
The Truce
Movie · as Primo Levi
Lesser Prophets
Movie · as Leon
Box of Moonlight
Movie · as Al Fountain
Grace of My Heart
Movie · as Joel Millner
Girl 6
Movie · as Murray - the Agent
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Clockers
Movie · as Det. Larry Mazilli
Unstrung Heroes
Movie · as Sid Lidz
Sugartime
Movie · as Sam Giancana
Search and Destroy
Movie · as Ron
At Sundance
Movie · as Self
Quiz Show
Movie · as Herb Stempel
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Movie · as Disco Bean
Being Human
Movie · as Lucinnius
Baseball
TV · as Various (voice)
Fearless
Movie · as Dr. Bill Perlman
Frasier
TV · as Grant (voice) · 1 ep
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Brain Donors
Movie · as Roland T. Flakfizer
Mac
Movie · as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Barton Fink
Movie · as Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
Movie · as Pauline Carbone
Miller's Crossing
Movie · as Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace
Movie · as Nick
Catchfire
Movie · as Pinella
Mo' Better Blues
Movie · as Moe Flatbush
Men Of Respect
Movie · as Mike Battaglia
Do the Right Thing
Movie · as Pino
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Movie · as Self
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV · as Larry · 2 eps
The Sicilian
Movie · as Pisciotta
Five Corners
Movie · as Heinz Sabatino
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie · as TV Writer
The Color of Money
Movie · as Julian
Gung Ho
Movie · as Willie
Off Beat
Movie · as Neil Pepper
To Live and Die in L.A.
Movie · as Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan
Movie · as Ray
The Flamingo Kid
Movie · as Ted from Pinky's
Miami Vice
TV · as David Traynor · 1 ep
Late Night with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Raging Bull
Movie · as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Emmy Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep