Joe Turkel
Birthday: 1927-07-15
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Joseph Turkel was a prolific American character actor. He was noted for his craggy Bronx looks and distinctive, penetrating voice. Turkel worked steadily from 1949 - 1998 in both films and television. He retired in 1998. He still made the occasional appearance at fan conventions even at the age of 90+.
Movies
Blade Runner
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...
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The Killing
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
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Paths of Glory
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on t...
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The Shining
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and...
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The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the...
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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner....
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The Glass Wall
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He ...
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Tormented
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head....
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...
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Village of the Giants
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. ...
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Friendly Persuasion
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...
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The Bonnie Parker Story
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West...
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The Case Against Brooklyn
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket....
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The Hindenburg
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the ...
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Fixed Bayonets!
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed unti...
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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fi...
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Mad at the World
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a youn...
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The Animals
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West...
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The Naked Street
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid...
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Triple Trouble
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, w...
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Reel Horror
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood....
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Portrait of a Mobster
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the lif...
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Duffy of San Quentin
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse....
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The Sex Symbol
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and ho...
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The Purple Gang
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detro...
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The Beast of Budapest
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a lo...
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with...
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middl...
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Lucky Losers
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of match...
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and ar...
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The Shadow on the Window
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - t...
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Here Come the Jets
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets....
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Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks wor...
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Inside Detroit
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A....
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King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...
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The Yellow Canary
Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the s...
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Hellcats of the Navy
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcat...
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Savage Abduction
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for...
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Jeanne Eagels
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels....
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The Boy and the Pirates
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish ...
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House of Numbers
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison....
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City Across the River
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seem...
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Sword in the Desert
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation o...
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Federal Man
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers....
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Southside 1-1000
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its Treasury agents insid...
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Halls of Montezuma
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner,...
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Starlift
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie ge...
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Gypsy Colt
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to...
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Return from the Sea
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a...
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The Human Jungle
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with ju...
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The Bamboo Prison
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners....
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Cell 2455 Death Row
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story....
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Verboten!
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his ...
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Warlock
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff h...
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Johnny Cool
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S....
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The Devil's Eight
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Chri...
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Which Way Is Up?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving be...
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The Midnight Story
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues....
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Scream Free!
A man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers....
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The Commitment
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts....
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Famous Ghost Stories
A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion Int...
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