(JTA) — Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in “Mean Streets ...

In his 80 years, Meyer Lansky worked alongside the most notorious gangsters in American history. He spearheaded a worldwide gambling racket and allegedly had quite a few people murdered for getting in ...

Now streaming on Amazon Prime, Lansky is a gangster drama lost somewhere among The Irishman, The Many Saints of Newark and, uh, Capone? Yeah, sure, Capone. It’s a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie ...

Reprising a role played by the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (whose character was dubbed Hyman Roth) in “The Godfather Part II,” Harvey Keitel plays the role of a real-life organized crime ...

“People see the same thing from different perspectives. And that fascinates me,” Harvey Keitel notes in an early scene while playing the title role in “Lansky,” writer-director Eytan Rockaway’s ...

There’s a saying in Hollwood that goes something like, if it ain’t broke, hire Harvey Keitel to play a ganster again because he’s the best at it. Deco’s Alex Miranda, who has a rap sheet as long as he ...

Harvey Keitel’s 50-plus-year award-winning film career now includes the crime thriller “Lansky.” “I play Meyer Lansky. A gangster in the old old days. The godfather of organized crime and boss of ...

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