Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Born February 28, 1957
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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2006
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as William Pound
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2006
as Vanzetti (Voice)
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2005
as Male Dancer & Singer
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as Don Angelo Bonasera
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2004
as Danilo "Danny B" Brullo
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as Paolo Zane
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2003
as John (voice)
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as Chuck
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2003
as Harry
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2002
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2001
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2000
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2000
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1998
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1998
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1996
as Self - Guest
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as Murray - the Agent
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1995
as Sam Giancana
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1995
as Det. Larry Mazilli
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1995
as Sid Lidz
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1995
as Ron
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1995
as Self
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1994
as Disco Bean
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1994
as Various (voice)
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1994
as Herb Stempel
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1994
as Lucinnius
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1993
as Dr. Bill Perlman
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1993
as Grant (voice)
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1993
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1993
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1992
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1992
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1991
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1991
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1987
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1986
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1986
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1986
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1986
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as Carl Cody
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1985
as Ray
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1984
as Ted from Pinky's
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1984
as David Traynor
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1984
as Guy #1
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1982
as Self - Guest
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1980
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
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1975
as Self - Host
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1953
as Self
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1949
as Self
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