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