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)
- 2020 · Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- 2019 · The True Adventures of Wolfboy as Mr. Silk
- 2017 · Landline as Alan Jacobs
- 2015 · Mia madre as Barry Huggins
- 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
- 2009 · The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen as Self
- 2007 · Margot at the Wedding as Jim
- 2007 · Brando as Self
- 2007 · Slipstream as Harvey Brickman
- 2006 · A Few Days in September as William Pound
- 2004 · 2BPerfectlyHonest as Sal / Roberto
- 2003 · Fear X as Harry
- 2002 · New York at the Movies as Self
- 2000 · The Man Who Cried as Dante Dominio
- 2000 · The Luzhin Defence as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
- 2000 · Company Man as Crocker Johnson
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Aldo Silvano
- 1997 · The Truce as Primo Levi
- 1996 · Grace of My Heart as Joel Millner
- 1996 · Box of Moonlight as Al Fountain
- 1996 · Girl 6 as Murray - the Agent
- 1995 · Sugartime as Sam Giancana
- 1995 · Unstrung Heroes as Sid Lidz
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as Disco Bean
- 1994 · Being Human as Lucinnius
- 1992 · Mac as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
- 1992 · Brain Donors as Roland T. Flakfizer
- 1990 · Men Of Respect as Mike Battaglia
- 1987 · The Sicilian as Pisciotta
- 1987 · Five Corners as Heinz Sabatino
- 1986 · Off Beat as Neil Pepper
- 1984 · The Flamingo Kid as Ted from Pinky's
- 1984 · Exterminator 2 as Guy #1
- Future · Wilder & Me as I.A.L. Diamond
- 2022 · High Noon on the Waterfront as Elia Kazan (voice)
- 2022 · Forty Winks as Milo
- 2022 · The Batman as Carmine Falcone
- 2022 · Severance as Irving Bailiff
- 2020 · The Oedipus Project as Creon
- 2020 · The Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
- 2019 · Green Eggs and Ham as Goat (voice)
- 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 · Transformers: The Last Knight as Agent Simmons
- 2017 · Hair as Himself
- 2016 · Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self
- 2016 · Hands of Stone as Frankie Carbo
- 2016 · The Night Of as John Stone
- 2015 · The Ridiculous 6 as Abner Doubleday
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells as Ingegnere Lombelli
- 2015 · Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2015 · Senza Lucio as Self
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Sethos I
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Fading Gigolo as Fioravante
- 2013 · Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Himself
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · In the Shadow of No Towers as Narrator
- 2011 · 1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) as Leroy
- 2011 · Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Simmons
- 2011 · Cars 2 as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- 2010 · The Nutcracker as The Rat King
- 2010 · Passione as Self
- 2009 · Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy as
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Simmons
- 2009 · The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Lt. Camonetti
- 2008 · What Just Happened as Dick Bell
- 2008 · Miracle at St. Anna as Detective Antonio Ri
- 2008 · You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
- 2008 · The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
- 2008 · Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies as
- 2007 · The Bronx Is Burning as Billy Martin
- 2007 · Transformers as Agent Simmons
- 2007 · Flight of the Conchords as Credits Cop
- 2007 · Brando: The Documentary as Self
- 2006 · The Good Shepherd as Raymond Brocco
- 2006 · John Torturro and the Soul of Naples as himself
- 2006 · Rachael Ray as
- 2006 · Sacco and Vanzetti as Vanzetti (Voice)
- 2005 · Romance & Cigarettes as Male Dancer & Singer
- 2005 · The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation as Son
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Don Angelo Bonasera
- 2004 · The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- 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
- 2002 · Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July as Narrator
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · Monk as Ambrose Monk
- 2002 · Mr. Deeds as Emilio Lopez
- 2002 · Collateral Damage as Sean Amstrong
- 2002 · Monday Night Mayhem as Howard Cosell
- 2001 · Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Walker
- 2001 · Monkeybone as Monkeybone (voice)
- 2000 · O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pete Hogwallop
- 2000 · Two Thousand and None as Benjamin Kasparian
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
- 1999 · The Source as Allen Ginsberg
- 1998 · Rounders as Joey Knish
- 1998 · Illuminata as Tuccio
- 1998 · He Got Game as Billy Sunday
- 1998 · All Revved Up as Johnny Candellano
- 1998 · The Big Lebowski as Jesus Quintana
- 1998 · Animals with the Tollkeeper as Tuxedo Man
- 1997 · Lesser Prophets as Leon
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Clockers as Det. Larry Mazilli
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as Ron
- 1995 · At Sundance as Self
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
- 1993 · Fearless as Dr. Bill Perlman
- 1993 · Frasier as Grant (voice)
- 1991 · Barton Fink as Barton Fink
- 1991 · Jungle Fever as Pauline Carbone
- 1990 · Miller's Crossing as Bernie Bernbaum
- 1990 · State of Grace as Nick
- 1990 · Mo' Better Blues as Moe Flatbush
- 1990 · Catchfire as Pinella
- 1989 · Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self
- 1989 · Do the Right Thing as Pino
- 1988 · The Fortunate Pilgrim as Larry
- 1986 · The Color of Money as Julian
- 1986 · Gung Ho as Willie
- 1986 · Hannah and Her Sisters as TV Writer
- 1985 · To Live and Die in L.A. as Carl Cody
- 1985 · Desperately Seeking Susan as Ray
- 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 Thing That Hurts as
- Future · The Only Living Pickpocket in New York as Harry