
John Turturro
Acting
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.
TV Shows(30)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eric Shane
2024

Can't Go Home
Paulo Santana
2023

Severance
Irving Bailiff
2022

The Plot Against America
Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf
2020

Green Eggs and Ham
Goat (voice)
2019

The Name of the Rose
William of Baskerville
2019

The Night Of
John Stone
2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015

Difficult People
Dusty
2015

The Italian Americans
Self
2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014

Finding Your Roots
Self
2012

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

The Bronx Is Burning
Billy Martin
2007

Flight of the Conchords
Credits Cop
2007

Brando: The Documentary
Self
2007

Rachael Ray
2006

Monk
Ambrose Monk
2002

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996

Baseball
Various (voice)
1994

Frasier
Grant (voice)
1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993

Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993

The Fortunate Pilgrim
Larry
1988

Miami Vice
David Traynor
1984

Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1982

Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975

The Oscars
Self
1953

The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
Movies(126)

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry
2026

The Cut
Boz
2025

The Room Next Door
Damian
2024

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Dottore (voice)
2022

High Noon on the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (voice)
2022

Forty Winks
Milo
2022

The Batman
Carmine Falcone
2022

The Oedipus Project
Creon
2020

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
2020

The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Mr. Silk
2019

The Jesus Rolls
Jesus Quintana
2019

Pulling the Evidence That Remains
Self
2019

Gloria Bell
Arnold
2019

Frank Serpico
Self
2017

Landline
Alan Jacobs
2017

Transformers: The Last Knight
Agent Simmons
2017

Hair
Himself
2017

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
2016

Hands of Stone
Frankie Carbo
2016

The Ridiculous 6
Abner Doubleday
2015

Mia madre
Barry Huggins
2015

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Ingegnere Lombelli
2015

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
2015

Senza Lucio
Self
2015

Exodus: Gods and Kings
Sethos I
2014

Rio, I Love You
Homem (segment "Quando não há Mais Amor")
2014

God's Pocket
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
2014

Gods Behaving Badly
Hades
2013

Fading Gigolo
Fioravante
2013

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Himself
2013

In the Shadow of No Towers
Narrator
2011

Somewhere Tonight
Leroy
2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Simmons
2011

Cars 2
Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
2011

The Nutcracker
The Rat King
2010

Passione
Self
2010

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
2009

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Self
2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Simmons
2009

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Lt. Camonetti
2009

What Just Happened
Dick Bell
2008

Miracle at St. Anna
Detective Antonio Ri
2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
2008

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self
2008
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008

Margot at the Wedding
Jim
2007

Transformers
Agent Simmons
2007

Brando
Self
2007

Slipstream
Harvey Brickman
2007

The Good Shepherd
Raymond Brocco
2006

John Torturro and the Soul of Naples
himself
2006

A Few Days in September
William Pound
2006

Sacco and Vanzetti
Vanzetti (Voice)
2006

Romance & Cigarettes
Male Dancer & Singer
2005

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Son
2005

She Hate Me
Don Angelo Bonasera
2004

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
2004

2BPerfectlyHonest
Sal / Roberto
2004

Secret Window
John Shooter
2004

Secret Passage
Paolo Zane
2004

Opopomoz
John (voice)
2003

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2003

Anger Management
Chuck
2003

Fear X
Harry
2003
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Narrator
2002

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2002
New York at the Movies
Self
2002

Mr. Deeds
Emilio Lopez
2002

Collateral Damage
Sean Amstrong
2002

Monday Night Mayhem
Howard Cosell
2002

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Walker
2001

Monkeybone
Monkeybone (voice)
2001

The Coen Brothers
Self
2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pete Hogwallop
2000

The Man Who Cried
Dante Dominio
2000

The Luzhin Defence
Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
2000

Two Thousand and None
Benjamin Kasparian
2000

Company Man
Crocker Johnson
2000

Cradle Will Rock
Aldo Silvano
1999

Summer of Sam
Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
1999

The Source
Allen Ginsberg
1999

Rounders
Joey Knish
1998

Illuminata
Tuccio
1998

He Got Game
Billy Sunday
1998

All Revved Up
Johnny Candellano
1998

The Big Lebowski
Jesus Quintana
1998

Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tuxedo Man
1998

Lesser Prophets
Leon
1997

The Truce
Primo Levi
1997

Grace of My Heart
Joel Millner
1996

Box of Moonlight
Al Fountain
1996

Girl 6
Murray - the Agent
1996

Sugartime
Sam Giancana
1995

Clockers
Det. Larry Mazilli
1995

Unstrung Heroes
Sid Lidz
1995

Search and Destroy
Ron
1995

At Sundance
Self
1995

The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Disco Bean
1994

Quiz Show
Herb Stempel
1994

Being Human
Lucinnius
1994

Fearless
Dr. Bill Perlman
1993

Mac
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli
1992

Brain Donors
Roland T. Flakfizer
1992

Barton Fink
Barton Fink
1991

Jungle Fever
Pauline Carbone
1991

Men Of Respect
Mike Battaglia
1990

Miller's Crossing
Bernie Bernbaum
1990

State of Grace
Nick
1990

Mo' Better Blues
Moe Flatbush
1990

Catchfire
Pinella
1990
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
1989

Do the Right Thing
Pino
1989

The Sicilian
Pisciotta
1987

Five Corners
Heinz Sabatino
1987

The Color of Money
Julian
1986

Off Beat
Neil Pepper
1986

Gung Ho
Willie
1986

Hannah and Her Sisters
TV Writer
1986

To Live and Die in L.A.
Carl Cody
1985

Desperately Seeking Susan
Ray
1985

The Flamingo Kid
Ted from Pinky's
1984

Raging Bull
Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
1980

Wilder & Me
I.A.L. Diamond
The Thing That Hurts
The Statement