Joe Turkel
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+.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.124 |
Birthday | 1927-07-15 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Joseph Turkel, Joseph Turkell, ジョー・ターケル, 조 터켈, 喬·特科爾, Джо Тёркел, Joseph Matthew Arthur Turkel, |
1982
Blade Runner
7.938/13580
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...
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Blade Runner
1956
The Killing
7.656/1496
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one la...
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The Killing
1957
Paths of Glory
8.271/2846
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Paths of Glory
1990
The Dark Side of the Moon
5/70
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running ou...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
1980
The Shining
8.214/17225
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest...
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The Shining
1966
The Sand Pebbles
7.2/239
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution...
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The Sand Pebbles
2007
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
0/0
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
1953
The Glass Wall
5.283/23
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped...
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The Glass Wall
1960
Tormented
5.068/44
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
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Tormented
1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
6.3/101
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1965
Village of the Giants
3.4/32
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent...
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Village of the Giants
1956
Friendly Persuasion
6.6/112
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...
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Friendly Persuasion
1958
The Bonnie Parker Story
4.6/8
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-...
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The Bonnie Parker Story
1958
The Case Against Brooklyn
6/9
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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The Case Against Brooklyn
1975
The Hindenburg
6.301/123
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....
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The Hindenburg
1951
Fixed Bayonets!
6.5/35
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take...
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Fixed Bayonets!
2007
Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
7.9/72
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 inter...
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Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
2015
The Chickening
6.6/15
It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and Restaurant Resort, the...
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The Chickening
1955
Mad at the World
5.7/6
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured becau...
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Mad at the World
1970
The Animals
4.1/9
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndr...
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The Animals
1955
The Naked Street
6.1/19
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Ros...
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The Naked Street
1950
Triple Trouble
6.2/4
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives or...
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Triple Trouble
1985
Reel Horror
2.4/7
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Reel Horror
1961
Portrait of a Mobster
0/0
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
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Portrait of a Mobster
1954
Duffy of San Quentin
6/3
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
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Duffy of San Quentin
1985
Levitation
0/0
Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went...
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Levitation
1974
The Sex Symbol
3/2
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deterior...
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The Sex Symbol
1972
Wild in the Sky
0/0
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
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Wild in the Sky
1959
The Purple Gang
6.3/3
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
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The Purple Gang
1958
The Beast of Budapest
0/0
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the...
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The Beast of Budapest
2000
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
7.2/10
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearl...
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
1975
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
6.7/61
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1950
Lucky Losers
5.8/4
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss'...
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Lucky Losers
1953
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
5/1
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1957
The Shadow on the Window
5.7/20
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. T...
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The Shadow on the Window
1959
Here Come the Jets
0/0
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
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Here Come the Jets
1972
Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
10/1
A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks world events consider all options as nuclear war is a...
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Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
1956
Inside Detroit
6/1
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vick...
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Inside Detroit
1965
King Rat
7/70
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
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King Rat
1963
The Yellow Canary
0/0
Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Ange...
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The Yellow Canary
1957
Hellcats of the Navy
4.2/12
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commande...
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Hellcats of the Navy
1973
Savage Abduction
6.5/8
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of re...
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Savage Abduction
1953
Man Crazy
6/1
Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.
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Man Crazy
1957
Jeanne Eagels
6.2/10
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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Jeanne Eagels
1949
Angels in Disguise
6.8/4
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
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Angels in Disguise
1960
The Boy and the Pirates
5.321/13
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's shi...
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The Boy and the Pirates
1957
House of Numbers
5.3/14
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
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House of Numbers
1949
City Across the River
5.5/8
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously invol...
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City Across the River
1949
Sword in the Desert
7.3/3
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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Sword in the Desert
1950
Federal Man
5/1
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
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Federal Man
1950
Southside 1-1000
5.7/6
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
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Southside 1-1000
1951
Halls of Montezuma
5.743/34
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat...
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Halls of Montezuma
1951
Starlift
5.6/4
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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Starlift
1953
A Slight Case of Larceny
4/3
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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A Slight Case of Larceny
1954
Gypsy Colt
6.3/3
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
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Gypsy Colt
1954
Return from the Sea
4.5/2
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
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Return from the Sea
1954
The Human Jungle
5.3/8
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a...
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The Human Jungle
1954
The Bamboo Prison
6.4/8
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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The Bamboo Prison
1955
Cell 2455 Death Row
5.6/12
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
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Cell 2455 Death Row
1959
Verboten!
6.4/20
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
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Verboten!
1959
Warlock
6.7/147
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire t...
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Warlock
1963
Johnny Cool
5.2/20
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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Johnny Cool
1969
The Devil's Eight
5.1/10
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust...
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The Devil's Eight
1977
Which Way Is Up?
6/29
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spo...
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Which Way Is Up?
1957
The Midnight Story
5.6/23
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with...
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The Midnight Story
1969
Scream Free!
6/4
A man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers.
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Scream Free!
1976
The Commitment
0/0
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
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