John Turturro
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Cut as Boz
- 2024 · The Room Next Door as Damian
- 2024 · Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Eric Shane
- 2023 · Can't Go Home as Paulo Santana
- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Dottore (voice)
- 2022 · The Batman as Carmine Falcone
- 2022 · Severance as Irving Bailiff
- 2019 · Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)
- 2017 · Transformers: The Last Knight as Agent Simmons
- 2016 · The Night Of as John Stone
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Sethos I
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · Cars 2 as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as
- 2009 · The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Lt. Camonetti
- 2008 · You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- 2007 · Flight of the Conchords as Credits Cop
- 2006 · Rachael Ray as
- 2002 · Monk as Ambrose Monk
- 2002 · Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez
- 2002 · Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong
- 2000 · O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano
- 1998 · Rounders as Joey Knish
- 1998 · The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
- 1996 · Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner
- 1993 · Frasier as Grant (voice)
- 1990 · State of Grace as Nick
- 1989 · Do the Right Thing as Pino
- 1987 · The Sicilian as Pisciotta
- 1986 · The Color of Money as Julian
- 1985 · To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody
- 1984 · Miami Vice as David Traynor
- 1980 · Raging Bull as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Harry
- 2022 · High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)
- 2022 · Forty Winks as Milo
- 2020 · The Oedipus Project as Creon
- 2020 · Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- 2020 · The Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
- 2019 · The True Adventures of Wolfboy as Mr. Silk
- 2019 · The Jesus Rolls as Jesus Quintana
- 2019 · Gloria Bell as Arnold
- 2019 · The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville
- 2017 · Frank Serpico as Self
- 2017 · Landline as Alan Jacobs
- 2015 · Senza Lucio as Self
- 2013 · Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Himself
- 2011 · In the Shadow of No Towers as Narrator
- 2011 · Somewhere Tonight as Leroy
- 2007 · Brando: The Documentary as Self
- 2006 · John Torturro and the Soul of Naples as himself
- 2006 · A Few Days in September as William Pound
- 2006 · Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera
- 2004 · The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- Future · The Thing That Hurts as
- 2017 · Hair as Himself
- 2016 · Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self
- 2016 · Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo
- 2015 · The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday
- 2015 · Difficult People as Dusty
- 2015 · Mia Madre as Barry Huggins
- 2015 · Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells as Ingegnere Lombelli
- 2015 · Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2014 · Rio, I Love You as Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
- 2014 · God's Pocket as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
- 2013 · Gods Behaving Badly as Hades
- 2013 · Fading Gigolo as Fioravante
- 2011 · Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Simmons
- 2010 · The Nutcracker as The Rat King
- 2010 · Passione as Self
- 2009 · The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen as Self
- 2009 · Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy as
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Simmons
- 2008 · What Just Happened as Dick Bell
- 2008 · Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri
- 2008 · The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
- 2008 · Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies as
- 2007 · Margot at the Wedding as Jim
- 2007 · The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin
- 2007 · Transformers as Agent Simmons
- 2007 · Brando as Self
- 2007 · Slipstream as Harvey Brickman
- 2006 · The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco
- 2005 · Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer
- 2005 · The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation as Son
- 2004 · 2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto
- 2004 · Secret Window as John Shooter
- 2004 · Secret Passage as Paolo Zane
- 2003 · Opopomoz as John (voice)
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2003 · Anger Management as Chuck
- 2003 · Fear X as Harry
- 2002 · Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July as Narrator
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · New York at the Movies as Self
- 2002 · Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell
- 2001 · Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Walker
- 2001 · Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)
- 2000 · The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio
- 2000 · The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
- 2000 · Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian
- 2000 · Company Man as Crocker Johnson
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
- 1999 · The Source as Allen Ginsberg
- 1998 · Illuminata as Tuccio
- 1998 · He Got Game as Billy Sunday
- 1998 · All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano
- 1998 · Animals with the Tollkeeper as Tuxedo Man
- 1997 · Lesser Prophets as Leon
- 1997 · The Truce as Primo Levi
- 1996 · Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1996 · Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent
- 1995 · Sugartime as Sam Giancana
- 1995 · Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz
- 1995 · Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as Ron
- 1995 · At Sundance as Self
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Disco Bean
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
- 1994 · Being Human as Lucinnius
- 1993 · Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman
- 1992 · Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
- 1992 · Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer
- 1991 · Barton Fink as Barton Fink
- 1991 · Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone
- 1990 · Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia
- 1990 · Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
- 1990 · Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush
- 1990 · Catchfire as Pinella
- 1989 · Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self
- 1988 · The Fortunate Pilgrim as Larry
- 1987 · Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino
- 1986 · Off Beat as Neil Pepper
- 1986 · Gung Ho as Willie
- 1986 · Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer
- 1985 · Desperately Seeking Susan as Ray
- 1984 · The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's
- 1984 · Exterminator 2 as Guy #1
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · Wilder & Me as I.A.L. Diamond