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.
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest
Monk
2002 · Ambrose Monk
Frasier
1993 · Grant (voice)
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Severance
2022 · Irving Bailiff
Miami Vice
1984 · David Traynor
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Cars 2
2011 · Francesco Bernoulli (v...
The Batman
2022 · Carmine Falcone
Late Night with David Letterman
1982 · Self - Guest
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Jesus Quintana
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Baseball
1994 · Various (voice)
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Agent Simmons
Green Eggs and Ham
2019 · Goat (voice)
Flight of the Conchords
2007 · Credits Cop
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024 · Eric Shane
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Sethos I
Rachael Ray
2006
Mr. Deeds
2002 · Emilio Lopez
Difficult People
2015 · Dusty
The Night Of
2016 · John Stone
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Dottore (voice)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008 · Fatoush 'The Phantom'...
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Pete Hogwallop
Raging Bull
1980 · Man at Webster Hall Ta...
Anger Management
2003 · Chuck
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Simmons
Transformers
2007 · Agent Simmons
The Good Shepherd
2006 · Raymond Brocco
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
Rounders
1998 · Joey Knish
The Name of the Rose
2019 · William of Baskerville
The Plot Against America
2020 · Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdo...
Secret Window
2004 · John Shooter
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · Lt. Camonetti
The Room Next Door
2024 · Damian
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Pino
Miller's Crossing
1990 · Bernie Bernbaum
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Self
The Ridiculous 6
2015 · Abner Doubleday
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Simmons
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Carl Cody
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · TV Writer
Collateral Damage
2002 · Sean Amstrong
The Color of Money
1986 · Julian
Barton Fink
1991 · Barton Fink
Fading Gigolo
2013 · Fioravante
Summer of Sam
1999 · Harvey the Black Dog (...
The Bronx Is Burning
2007 · Billy Martin
Romance & Cigarettes
2005 · Male Dancer & Singer
Quiz Show
1994 · Herb Stempel
Jungle Fever
1991 · Pauline Carbone
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Self
She Hate Me
2004 · Don Angelo Bonasera
Catchfire
1990 · Pinella
Gung Ho
1986 · Willie
Monkeybone
2001 · Monkeybone (voice)
He Got Game
1998 · Billy Sunday
The Cut
2025 · Boz
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Ray
The Man Who Cried
2000 · Dante Dominio
Hands of Stone
2016 · Frankie Carbo
State of Grace
1990 · Nick
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988 · Larry
Clockers
1995 · Det. Larry Mazilli
Somewhere Tonight
2011 · Leroy
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Detective Antonio Ri
Margot at the Wedding
2007 · Jim
All Revved Up
1998 · Johnny Candellano
Girl 6
1996 · Murray - the Agent
God's Pocket
2014 · Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Can't Go Home
2023 · Paulo Santana
Fearless
1993 · Dr. Bill Perlman
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019 · Mr. Silk
What Just Happened
2008 · Dick Bell
The Coen Brothers
2000 · Self
Slipstream
2007 · Harvey Brickman
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Moe Flatbush
The Nutcracker
2010 · The Rat King
The Sicilian
1987 · Pisciotta
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026 · Harry
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Aldo Silvano
The Jesus Rolls
2019 · Jesus Quintana
Gloria Bell
2019 · Arnold
Brando: The Documentary
2007 · Self
Being Human
1994 · Lucinnius
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994 · Disco Bean
The Source
1999 · Allen Ginsberg
Landline
2017 · Alan Jacobs
Five Corners
1987 · Heinz Sabatino
Rio, I Love You
2014 · Homem (segment "Quando...
Fear X
2003 · Harry
Men Of Respect
1990 · Mike Battaglia
Brando
2007 · Self
The Italian Americans
2015 · Self
Grace of My Heart
1996 · Joel Millner
The Truce
1997 · Primo Levi
Frank Serpico
2017 · Self
Off Beat
1986 · Neil Pepper
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Self
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998 · Tuxedo Man
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 · Hades
Brain Donors
1992 · Roland T. Flakfizer
Monday Night Mayhem
2002 · Howard Cosell
The Oedipus Project
2020 · Creon
Company Man
2000 · Crocker Johnson
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Himself
Search and Destroy
1995 · Ron
Box of Moonlight
1996 · Al Fountain
Exterminator 2
1984 · Guy #1
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · Ted from Pinky's
The Luzhin Defence
2000 · Aleksandr Ivanovich 'S...
Sugartime
1995 · Sam Giancana
A Few Days in September
2006 · William Pound
Hair
2017 · Himself
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022 · Elia Kazan (voice)
Illuminata
1998 · Tuccio
Mia madre
2015 · Barry Huggins
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
Mac
1992 · Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001 · Walker
Senza Lucio
2015 · Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008 · Self
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008 · Self
Opopomoz
2003 · John (voice)
Unstrung Heroes
1995 · Sid Lidz
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015 · Ingegnere Lombelli
At Sundance
1995 · Self
Wilder & Me
— · I.A.L. Diamond
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Self
Lesser Prophets
1997 · Leon
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016 · Self
Pulling the Evidence That Remains
2019 · Self
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006 · Vanzetti (Voice)
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
2006 · himself
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015 · Self
Two Thousand and None
2000 · Benjamin Kasparian
Passione
2010 · Self
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004 · Sal / Roberto
Secret Passage
2004 · Paolo Zane
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
2005 · Son
Forty Winks
2022 · Milo
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011 · Narrator