John Turturro
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 28, 1957
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
- Joe Torre
Joe Torre TBA
Director
When the Music Changes TBA
Executive Producer
- The Thing That Hurts
The Thing That Hurts TBA
Actor
Wilder & Me TBA
as I.A.L. Diamond
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York 2026
as Harry
A Statement 2026
as Dr. David Rose
The Cut 2025
as Boz
The Room Next Door 2024
as Damian
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022
as Dottore (voice)
High Noon on the Waterfront 2022
as Elia Kazan (voice)
Potentially Dangerous 2022
Executive Producer
Forty Winks 2022
as Milo
The Batman 2022
as Carmine Falcone
The Oedipus Project 2020
as Creon
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness 2020
as Self
The True Adventures of Wolfboy 2019
as Mr. Silk
The Jesus Rolls 2019
as Jesus Quintana, Director, Screenplay
Pulling the Evidence That Remains 2019
as Self
Gloria Bell 2019
as Arnold
Verdi: Rigoletto - Teatro Massimo di Palermo 2018
Director
Frank Serpico 2017
as Self
Landline 2017
as Alan Jacobs
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
as Agent Simmons
Hair 2017
as Himself, Director, Writer
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' 2016
as Self
Hands of Stone 2016
as Frankie Carbo
The Ridiculous 6 2015
as Abner Doubleday
Mia Madre 2015
as Barry Huggins
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells 2015
as Ingegnere Lombelli
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' 2015
as Self
Senza Lucio 2015
as Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014
as Sethos I
Rio, I Love You 2014
as Homem, Director, Writer
God's Pocket 2014
as Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Fading Gigolo 2014
as Fioravante, Director, Screenplay
Gods Behaving Badly 2013
as Hades
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 2013
as Self
In the Shadow of No Towers 2011
as Narrator
Somewhere Tonight 2011
as Leroy
Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011
as Simmons
Cars 2 2011
as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
The Nutcracker 2010
as The Rat King
Passione 2010
as Self, Director, Choreographer, Idea, Writer, Story, Screenplay
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen 2009
as Self
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy 2009
Actor, Writer
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later 2009
as Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009
as Simmons
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 2009
as Lt. Camonetti
What Just Happened 2008
as Dick Bell
- The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II
The Godfather vs. The Godfather Part II 2008
as Himself
Miracle at St. Anna 2008
as Detective Antonio Ri
You Don't Mess with the Zohan 2008
as Fatoush 'The Phantom' Hakbarah
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't 2008
as Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream 2008
as Self
- Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies 2008
Actor
Margot at the Wedding 2007
as Jim
Transformers 2007
as Agent Simmons
Brando 2007
as Self
Slipstream 2007
as Harvey Brickman
The Good Shepherd 2006
as Raymond Brocco
John Torturro and the Soul of Naples 2006
as himself
A Few Days in September 2006
as William Pound
Sacco and Vanzetti 2006
as Vanzetti (Voice)
Romance & Cigarettes 2006
as Male Dancer & Singer, Director, Writer, Producer
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation 2005
as Son
She Hate Me 2004
as Don Angelo Bonasera
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth 2004
as Self
2BPerfectlyHonest 2004
as Sal / Roberto
Secret Window 2004
as John Shooter
Secret Passage 2004
as Paolo Zane
Opopomoz 2003
as John (voice)
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker 2003
as Self
Anger Management 2003
as Chuck
Fear X 2003
as Harry
- Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July 2002
as Narrator
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick 2002
as Self
- New York at the Movies
New York at the Movies 2002
as Self
Mr. Deeds 2002
as Emilio Lopez
Heart of the Festival 2002
as Self (archive footage)
Collateral Damage 2002
as Sean Amstrong
Monday Night Mayhem 2002
as Howard Cosell
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001
as Walker
Monkeybone 2001
as Monkeybone (voice)
The Coen Brothers 2000
as Self
O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
as Pete Hogwallop
The Man Who Cried 2000
as Dante Dominio
The Luzhin Defence 2000
as Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin
Two Thousand and None 2000
as Benjamin Kasparian
Company Man 2000
as Crocker Johnson
Cradle Will Rock 1999
as Aldo Silvano
Summer of Sam 1999
as Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
The Source 1999
as Allen Ginsberg
Rounders 1998
as Joey Knish
Illuminata 1998
as Tuccio, Director, Screenplay, Producer
He Got Game 1998
as Billy Sunday
All Revved Up 1998
as Johnny Candellano
The Big Lebowski 1998
as Jesus Quintana
Animals with the Tollkeeper 1998
as Tuxedo Man
Lesser Prophets 1997
as Leon
The Truce 1997
as Primo Levi
Grace of My Heart 1996
as Joel Millner
Box of Moonlight 1996
as Al Fountain
Girl 6 1996
as Murray - the Agent
Sugartime 1995
as Sam Giancana
Unstrung Heroes 1995
as Sid Lidz
Clockers 1995
as Det. Larry Mazilli
Search and Destroy 1995
as Ron
At Sundance 1995
as Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy 1994
as Disco Bean
Quiz Show 1994
as Herb Stempel
Being Human 1994
as Lucinnius
Fearless 1993
as Dr. Bill Perlman
Mac 1992
as Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli, Director, Writer
Brain Donors 1992
as Roland T. Flakfizer
Barton Fink 1991
as Barton Fink
Jungle Fever 1991
as Pauline Carbone
Men Of Respect 1990
as Mike Battaglia
Miller's Crossing 1990
as Bernie Bernbaum
State of Grace 1990
as Nick
Mo' Better Blues 1990
as Moe Flatbush
Catchfire 1990
as Pinella
- Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Making 'Do the Right Thing' 1989
as Self
Do the Right Thing 1989
as Pino
The Sicilian 1987
as Pisciotta
Five Corners 1987
as Heinz Sabatino
The Color of Money 1986
as Julian
Off Beat 1986
as Neil Pepper
Gung Ho 1986
as Willie
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
as TV Writer
To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
as Carl Cody
Desperately Seeking Susan 1985
as Ray
The Flamingo Kid 1984
as Ted from Pinky's
Raging Bull 1980
as Man at Webster Hall Table (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.