I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

He is a godfather of close friend Michael Madsen's son Max. Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Filmography.

Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school". Harvey Keitel (born May 13 1939) is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma & Louise Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction Jane Campion's The Piano Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant and James Mangold's Cop Land.