John Turturro
Overview
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.
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Average rating: 6.1
2022
The Batman
Average rating: 7.7
2002
Mr. Deeds
Average rating: 5.9
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Average rating: 5.9
2011
Cars 2
Average rating: 6.1
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Average rating: 5.7
2016
Hands of Stone
Average rating: 6.6
1998
The Big Lebowski
Average rating: 7.8
2004
Secret Window
Average rating: 6.6
1980
Raging Bull
Average rating: 7.9
1989
Do the Right Thing
Average rating: 7.8
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Average rating: 8.1
2003
Anger Management
Average rating: 6.1
2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Average rating: 6.4
2007
Transformers
Average rating: 6.8
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Average rating: 6.5
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Average rating: 5.9
1975
Saturday Night Live
Average rating: 6.9
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Average rating: 5
2002
Monk
Average rating: 7.9
1993
Frasier
Average rating: 7.7
2012
Finding Your Roots
Average rating: 6.3
2019
Green Eggs and Ham
Average rating: 8
1984
Miami Vice
Average rating: 7.5
1953
The Oscars
Average rating: 7
2007
Flight of the Conchords
Average rating: 7.9
2022
Severance
Average rating: 8.4
2024
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Average rating: 6.4
2016
The Night Of
Average rating: 8
2019
The Name of the Rose
Average rating: 7Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Movie | The Room Next Door | Damian |
| 2024 | Movie | The Cut | Boz |
| 2024 | Tv Show | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Eric Shane |
| 2023 | Tv Show | Can't Go Home | Paulo Santana |
| 2022 | Movie | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Dottore (voice) |
| 2022 | Movie | High Noon on the Waterfront | Elia Kazan (voice) |
| 2022 | Movie | Vengeance in the Making | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | Forty Winks | Milo |
| 2022 | Movie | The Batman | Carmine Falcone |
| 2022 | Tv Show | Severance | Irving Bailiff |
| 2020 | Movie | The Oedipus Project | Creon |
| 2020 | Movie | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness | Self |
| 2020 | Tv Show | The Plot Against America | Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf |
| 2019 | Movie | The True Adventures of Wolfboy | Mr. Silk |
| 2019 | Tv Show | Green Eggs and Ham | Goat (voice) |
| 2019 | Movie | The Jesus Rolls | Jesus Quintana |
| 2019 | Movie | Gloria Bell | Arnold |
| 2019 | Tv Show | The Name of the Rose | William of Baskerville |
| 2017 | Movie | Frank Serpico | Self |
| 2017 | Movie | Landline | Alan Jacobs |
| 2017 | Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Seymour Simmons |
| 2017 | Movie | Hair | Himself |
| 2016 | Movie | Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' | Self |
| 2016 | Movie | Hands of Stone | Frankie Carbo |
| 2016 | Tv Show | The Night Of | John Stone |
| 2015 | Movie | The Ridiculous 6 | Abner Doubleday |
| 2015 | Tv Show | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | Movie | Mia madre | Barry Huggins |
| 2015 | Movie | Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells | Ingegnere Lombelli |
| 2015 | Movie | Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' | Self |
| 2015 | Movie | Senza Lucio | Sé stesso |
| 2014 | Movie | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Sethos I |
| 2014 | Movie | Rio, I Love You | Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor") |
| 2014 | Movie | God's Pocket | Arthur 'Bird' Capezio |
| 2014 | Tv Show | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2013 | Movie | Gods Behaving Badly | Hades |
| 2013 | Movie | Fading Gigolo | Fioravante |
| 2013 | Movie | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | Himself |
| 2012 | Tv Show | Finding Your Roots | Self |
| 2011 | Movie | In the Shadow of No Towers | Narrator |
| 2011 | Movie | 1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) | Leroy |
| 2011 | Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Simmons |
| 2011 | Movie | Cars 2 | Francesco Bernoulli (voice) |
| 2010 | Movie | The Nutcracker: The Untold Story | The Rat King |
| 2010 | Movie | Passione | Narrator |
| 2009 | Movie | The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen | Self |
| 2009 | Movie | Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | - |
| 2009 | Tv Show | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | - |
| 2009 | Movie | Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later | Self |
| 2009 | Movie | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Seymour Simmons |
| 2009 | Movie | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | Lt. Camonetti |
| 2008 | Movie | What Just Happened | Dick Bell |
| 2008 | Movie | Miracle at St. Anna | Detective Antonio Ri |
| 2008 | Movie | You Don't Mess with the Zohan | Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah |
| 2008 | Movie | The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't | Self |
| 2008 | Movie | Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies | - |
| 2007 | Movie | Margot at the Wedding | Jim |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Bronx Is Burning | Billy Martin |
| 2007 | Movie | Transformers | Agent Simmons |
| 2007 | Tv Show | Flight of the Conchords | Credits Cop |
| 2007 | Movie | Brando | Self |
| 2007 | Tv Show | Brando: The Documentary | Self |
| 2007 | Movie | Slipstream | Harvey Brickman |
| 2006 | Movie | The Good Shepherd | Raymond Brocco |
| 2006 | Movie | John Torturro and the Soul of Naples | himself |
| 2006 | Tv Show | Rachael Ray | - |
| 2006 | Movie | A Few Days in September | William Pound |
| 2006 | Movie | Sacco and Vanzetti | Vanzetti (Voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Romance & Cigarettes | Male Dancer & Singer |
| 2005 | Movie | The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation | Son |
| 2004 | Movie | She Hate Me | Don Angelo Bonasera |
| 2004 | Movie | The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth | Self |
| 2004 | Movie | 2BPerfectlyHonest | Sal / Roberto |
| 2004 | Movie | Secret Window | John Shooter |
| 2004 | Movie | Secret Passage | Paolo Zane |
| 2003 | Movie | Opopomoz | John (voice) |
| 2003 | Movie | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self |
| 2003 | Movie | Anger Management | Chuck |
| 2003 | Movie | Fear X | Harry |
| 2002 | Movie | Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July | Narrator |
| 2002 | Movie | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self |
| 2002 | Tv Show | Monk | Ambrose Monk |
| 2002 | Movie | New York at the Movies | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Mr. Deeds | Emilio Lopez |
| 2002 | Movie | Collateral Damage | Sean Amstrong |
| 2002 | Movie | Monday Night Mayhem | Howard Cosell |
| 2001 | Movie | Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Walker |
| 2001 | Movie | Monkeybone | Monkeybone (voice) |
| 2000 | Movie | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Pete Hogwallop |
| 2000 | Movie | The Man Who Cried | Dante Dominio |
| 2000 | Movie | The Luzhin Defence | Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin |
| 2000 | Movie | Two Thousand and None | Benjamin Kasparian |
| 2000 | Movie | Company Man | Crocker Johnson |
| 1999 | Movie | Cradle Will Rock | Aldo Silvano |
| 1999 | Movie | Summer of Sam | Harvey the Black Dog (voice) |
| 1999 | Movie | The Source | Allen Ginsberg |
| 1998 | Movie | Rounders | Joey Knish |
| 1998 | Movie | Illuminata | Tuccio |
| 1998 | Movie | He Got Game | Billy Sunday |
| 1998 | Movie | All Revved Up | Johnny Candellano |
| 1998 | Movie | The Big Lebowski | Jesus Quintana |
| 1998 | Movie | Animals with the Tollkeeper | Tuxedo Man |
| 1997 | Movie | Lesser Prophets | Leon |
| 1997 | Movie | The Truce | Primo Levi |
| 1996 | Movie | Grace of My Heart | Joel Millner |
| 1996 | Movie | Box of Moonlight | Al Fountain |
| 1996 | Tv Show | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Movie | Girl 6 | Murray - the Agent |
| 1995 | Movie | Sugartime | Sam Giancana |
| 1995 | Movie | Clockers | Det. Larry Mazilli |
| 1995 | Movie | Unstrung Heroes | Sid Lidz |
| 1995 | Movie | Search and Destroy | Ron |
| 1995 | Movie | At Sundance | Self |
| 1994 | Movie | The Search for One-eye Jimmy | Disco Bean |
| 1994 | Tv Show | Baseball | Various (voice) |
| 1994 | Movie | Quiz Show | Herbert 'Herb' Stempel |
| 1994 | Movie | Being Human | Lucinnius |
| 1993 | Movie | Fearless | Dr. Bill Perlman |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Frasier | Grant (voice) |
| 1992 | Movie | Mac | Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli |
| 1992 | Movie | Brain Donors | Roland T. Flakfizer |
| 1991 | Movie | Barton Fink | Barton Fink |
| 1991 | Movie | Jungle Fever | Pauline Carbone |
| 1990 | Movie | Men Of Respect | Mike Battaglia |
| 1990 | Movie | Miller's Crossing | Bernie Bernbaum |
| 1990 | Movie | State of Grace | Nick |
| 1990 | Movie | Mo' Better Blues | Moe Flatbush |
| 1990 | Movie | Catchfire | Pinella |
| 1989 | Movie | Making 'Do the Right Thing' | Self |
| 1989 | Movie | Do the Right Thing | Pino Fragione |
| 1988 | Tv Show | The Fortunate Pilgrim | Larry |
| 1987 | Movie | The Sicilian | Pisciotta |
| 1987 | Movie | Five Corners | Heinz Sabatino |
| 1986 | Movie | The Color of Money | Julian |
| 1986 | Movie | Off Beat | Neil Pepper |
| 1986 | Movie | Gung Ho | Willie |
| 1986 | Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | TV Writer |
| 1985 | Movie | To Live and Die in L.A. | Carl Cody |
| 1985 | Movie | Desperately Seeking Susan | Ray |
| 1984 | Movie | The Flamingo Kid | Ted from Pinky's |
| 1984 | Tv Show | Miami Vice | David Traynor |
| 1984 | Movie | Exterminator 2 | Guy #1 |
| 1980 | Movie | Raging Bull | Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited) |
| 1975 | Tv Show | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1953 | Tv Show | The Oscars | Self |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Movie | Potentially Dangerous | Production |
| 2019 | Movie | The Jesus Rolls | Directing |
| 2019 | Movie | The Jesus Rolls | Writing |
| 2019 | Tv Show | The Name of the Rose | Production |
| 2019 | Tv Show | The Name of the Rose | Writing |
| 2017 | Movie | Hair | Writing |
| 2017 | Movie | Hair | Directing |
| 2014 | Movie | Rio, I Love You | Directing |
| 2014 | Movie | Rio, I Love You | Writing |
| 2013 | Movie | Fading Gigolo | Directing |
| 2013 | Movie | Fading Gigolo | Writing |
| 2010 | Movie | Passione | Directing |
| 2009 | Movie | Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | Writing |
| 2005 | Movie | Romance & Cigarettes | Production |
| 2005 | Movie | Romance & Cigarettes | Writing |
| 2005 | Movie | Romance & Cigarettes | Directing |
| 1998 | Movie | Illuminata | Production |
| 1998 | Movie | Illuminata | Writing |
| 1998 | Movie | Illuminata | Directing |
| 1992 | Movie | Mac | Directing |
| 1992 | Movie | Mac | Writing |