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