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+.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of...
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Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy...
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Paths of Glory
as Pvt. Pierre ArnaudA commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred...
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Warlock
as Chet Haggin (uncredited)A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the...
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The Killing
as TinyCareer criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a...
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The Sand Pebbles
as BronsonEngineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Jake 'Greasy Thumb' GuzikChicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of...
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Friendly Persuasion
as Poor Loser (uncredited)The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to...
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The Hindenburg
as Detective MooreColonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
as Paxton WarnerIt is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded...
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Man Upstairs (voice) (uncredited)Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at...
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The Shadow on the Window
as Lounger (uncredited)Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime...
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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as SelfThe definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the...
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King Rat
as DinoWhen Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but...
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The Midnight Story
as Lothario at Dance (uncredited)Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few...
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Johnny Cool
as HoodlumA deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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The Boy and the Pirates
as Abu the GenieJimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a...
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Which Way Is Up?
as Harry BoatwrightOrange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town,...
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The Glass Wall
as Freddie Zakoyla (as Joseph Turkel)Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor....
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Halls of Montezuma
as MarineRichard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert...
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Village of the Giants
as Sheriff"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous...
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Tormented
as NickA jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
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Sword in the Desert
as Haganah Soldier (uncredited)First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the...
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The Bonnie Parker Story
as Chuck DarrowIn the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the...
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Hellcats of the Navy
as Chick (as Joseph Turkel)Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in...
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Fixed Bayonets!
as Soldier (uncredited)The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed...
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The Naked Street
as ShimmyTo make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal...
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Verboten!
as InfantrymanA young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises...
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The Bamboo Prison
as P.O.W.A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as SelfThis is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history...
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A Slight Case of Larceny
as Holdup ManTwo nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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The Devil's Eight
as SamThe Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent...
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Reel Horror
as Harry (archive footage)Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Savage Abduction
as HarryA serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls...
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The Yellow Canary
as PolicemanAndy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On...
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Cell 2455 Death Row
as CurlyA Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
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City Across the River
as Shimmy StocktonBrooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes,...
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Mad at the World
as Pete Johnson (as Joseph Turkel)A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a...
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Lucky Losers
as Johnny AngeloSlip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of...
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House of Numbers
as Bradville - ConvictStory of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
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The Animals
as PeyoteA woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old...
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Starlift
as Litter Case (uncredited)To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his...
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The Case Against Brooklyn
as Henchman MonteA rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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Triple Trouble
as Benny the Blood (as Joseph Turkel)Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real...
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Jeanne Eagels
as Eddie, Reporter (uncredited)Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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Famous Ghost Stories
as Nick (segment 'Tormented')A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion...
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Scream Free!
as uncreditedA man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers.
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Gypsy Colt
as ChuckIn this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous...
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Duffy of San Quentin
as Frank RobertsSan Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
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Wild in the Sky
as CorazzaThree anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
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The Human Jungle
as Delinquent HoodDanforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled...
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Angels in Disguise
as Henchman Johnny MartinSlip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
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Federal Man
as Jack 'Sneeze' NortonA government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
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Inside Detroit
as Pete Link (as Joseph Turkel)Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of...
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Return from the Sea
as SailorA hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help...
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The Beast of Budapest
as MartinArchival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also...
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Levitation
as Kharma (as Joseph Turkel)Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician into reviving his legendary wireless...
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Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
as Col. FergusonA group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks...
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The Sex Symbol
as DirectorA thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life...
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
as Pvt. HarrisWar-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely...
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Portrait of a Mobster
as Joe NoeA vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the...
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Southside 1-1000
as FrankieThe U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a...
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The Purple Gang
as Eddie OlsenThe story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's...
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Man Crazy
as RayThree women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.
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The Commitment
as JulesA salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
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Here Come the Jets
as HenleyThe rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
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Bonanza
as Thug #1The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Bonanza
as LupeThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Bonanza
as Private PetersThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Dragnet
as uncreditedFollows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his...
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Miami Vice
as uncreditedThe story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...
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Ironside
as uncreditedWhen an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...
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Ben Casey
as uncreditedBen Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...
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The Andy Griffith Show
as FredThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...
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Adam-12
as Vince WarrenAdam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
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Bat Masterson
as Woody LarkinBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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Bat Masterson
as Joe TurkelBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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Tales from the Darkside
as KharmaTales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each...
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Wagon Train
as EddieThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...
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The Untouchables
as Birdie YatesSpecial Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...
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The Untouchables
as GarvinSpecial Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...
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The Untouchables
as Gobo KarshSpecial Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...
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The Untouchables
as Deuces KoblerSpecial Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...
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Combat!
as KlimmerCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...
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Land of the Giants
as SergeantSet fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and...
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Bob RellanceThe Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of...
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Kojak
as SwampgasA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...
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The Detectives
as uncreditedThe Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...
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Highway Patrol
as uncreditedHighway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959,...
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Felony Squad
as uncreditedTwenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western...
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The Texan
as Evan McBeemThe Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which...
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Public Defender
as Leo JacksonThe Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as...
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The Rat Patrol
as Capt. BruenerThe exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a...
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Police Story
as uncreditedPolice Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...
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The Roaring 20's
as uncreditedThe adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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I Led Three Lives
as uncreditedI Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs...
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as Stubb CullThe Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...
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The Aquanauts
as DannyThe Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season....
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Tightrope
as uncreditedTightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September...
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Joe Forrester
as uncreditedJoe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.
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Dangerous Assignment
as uncreditedA U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star...
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I'm the Law
as uncreditedI'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which...
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Letter to Loretta
as LoganLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
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The Asphalt Jungle
as uncreditedPolice adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a...
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General Electric Theater
as uncreditedGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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