Person Details

Birthday: 1957-02-28 07:16:21

Aliases: John Michael Turturro , 约翰·特托罗

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 96

TV Involvements: 14


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Miami Vice
Average
7

Miami Vice

(1984) David Traynor
Finding Your Roots
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6

Finding Your Roots

(2012) Self
Severance
Average
8

Severance

(2022) Irving Bailiff
The Plot Against America
Average
7

The Plot Against America

(2020) Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
The Batman
Average
8

The Batman

(2022) Carmine Falcone
Baseball
Average
7

Baseball

(1994) Various (voice)
The Name of the Rose
Average
7

The Name of the Rose

(2019) William of Baskerville
The Night Of
Average
8

The Night Of

(2016) John Stone

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Eric Shane
2023 Paulo Santana
2022 Il Dottore (voice)
Elia Kazan (voice)
Milo
Carmine Falcone
Irving Bailiff
2020 Creon
Self
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
2019 Mr. Silk
Goat (voice)
Jesus Quintana
Arnold
William of Baskerville
2017 Self
Alan Jacobs
Seymour Simmons
Himself
2016 Self
Frankie Carbo
John Stone
2015 Abner Doubleday
Self
Barry Huggins
Ingegnere Lombelli
Self
Sé stesso
2014 Sethos I
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Self
2013 Hades
Fioravante
Himself
2012 Self
2011 Narrator
Leroy
Simmons
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
2010 The Rat King
Narrator
2009 N/A
N/A
N/A
Self
Seymour Simmons
Lt. Camonetti
2008 Dick Bell
Detective Antonio Ri
Fatoush "The Phantom" Hakbarah
Self
N/A
2007 Jim
Billy Martin
Agent Simmons
Credits Cop
Self
Self
Harvey Brickman
2006 Raymond Brocco
N/A
William Pound
Vanzetti (Voice)
2005 Male Dancer & Singer
Son
2004 Don Angelo Bonasera
Self
Sal / Roberto
John Shooter
Paolo Zane
2003 John (voice)
Self
Chuck
Harry
2002 Narrator
Self
Ambrose Monk
N/A
Emilio Lopez
Sean Amstrong
Howard Cosell
2001 Walker
Monkeybone (voice)
2000 Pete Hogwallop
Dante Dominio
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Benjamin Kasparian
Crocker Johnson
1999 Aldo Silvano
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
Allen Ginsberg
1998 Joey Knish
Tuccio
Billy Sunday
Johnny Candellano
Jesus Quintana
Tuxedo Man
1997 Leon
Primo Levi
1996 Joel Millner
Al Fountain
Disco Bean
Self - Guest
Murray - the Agent
1995 Sam Giancana
Sid Lidz
Det. Larry Mazilli
Ron
Himself
1994 Various (voice)
Herbert 'Herb' Stempel
Lucinnius
1993 Dr. Bill Perlman
Grant (voice)
1992 Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
Roland T. Flakfizer
1991 Barton Fink
Pauline Carbone
Mike Battaglia
1990 Bernie Bernbaum
Nick
Moe Flatbush
Pinella
1989 Self
Pino Fragione
1988 Larry
1987 Pisciotta
Heinz Sabatino
1986 Julian
Neil Pepper
Willie
TV Writer
1985 Carl Cody
Ray
1984 Ted from Pinky's
David Traynor
Guy #1
1980 Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
1975 Self - Host
1953 Self
N/A
himself
Boz
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Executive Producer
2019 Executive Producer
2005 Producer
1998 Producer
Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing


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