Joe Turkel
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Joe Turkel | |
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| Born | July 15, 1927 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1948–1999 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service/ |  United States Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Joe Turkel (born July 15, 1927) is an American character actor.
Early life[]
Turkel was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish-Jewish immigrants.[1] When he was 16 years old, he joined the United States Army and served in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
Career[]
Turkel's first film appearance was 1948's City Across the River. Other film appearances include Bert I. Gordon's The Boy and the Pirates as Abu the Genie and Tormented (both 1960); as a gangster-sidekick in The Purple Gang; a prisoner of war named Dino in King Rat; The Sand Pebbles (1966) as Bronson; The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) as Chicago gangster Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik; and the 1990 horror feature The Dark Side of the Moon.
On November 13, 1956, Turkel appeared on the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Jim Rellance, a young Texas cowhand who is infatuated with Dora Hand, a dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas.
Turkel's other television appearances include Sky King (in the 1957 episode "Mystery Horse"), Frontier Doctor, Bat Masterson, U.S. Marshal, The Asphalt Jungle, Mackenzie's Raiders, Kojak, Tales from the Darkside, and Miami Vice (in the episode "Indian Wars"). He played the creepy janitor in the season 5 episode, "And Then There Was Shawn" of Boy Meets World.
He also appeared on Bonanza three times, including the 1961 episode "The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch", playing one of two of Bullet Head Burke's right-hand men.
Turkel's more famous roles are Dr. Eldon Tyrell, the eccentric android manufacturer in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), and Lloyd, the ghostly bartender in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).[2] He is one of only two actors (the other being Philip Stone) to work with Kubrick as a credited character three times: in The Killing (1956, as Tiny), in Paths of Glory (1957, as Private Arnaud), and in The Shining (1980, as Lloyd).
In 1999, he lived in southern California and wrote screenplays.[3]
He said in a 2014 interview that Paths of Glory was the favorite among his films.[4]
Political views[]
When he attended a 2014 rally in Occupy Seattle, he referred to himself as a "Liberal Progressive Democrat".[5]
Filmography[]
- City Across the River (1949) – Shimmy Stockton
- Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) – Bellboy (uncredited)
- Sword in the Desert (1949) – Haganah Soldier (uncredited)
- Angels in Disguise (1949) – Johnny Mutton
- Lucky Losers (1950) – Johnny Angelo
- Federal Man (1950) – Jack "Sneeze" Norton
- Triple Trouble (1950) – Benny the Blood
- Southside 1-1000 (1950) – Frankie
- Halls of Montezuma (1951) – Marine (uncredited)
- Fixed Bayonets! (1951) – Soldier (uncredited)
- Starlift (1951) – Litter Case (uncredited)
- Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) – Pvt. Harris (uncredited)
- The Glass Wall (1953) – Freddie Zakoyla
- A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) – Holdup Man (uncredited)
- Man Crazy (1953) – Ray
- Duffy of San Quentin (1954) – Frank Roberts
- Gypsy Colt (1954) – Chuck (uncredited)
- Return from the Sea (1954) – Sailor (uncredited)
- The Human Jungle (1954) – Delinquent Hood (uncredited)
- The Bamboo Prison (1954) – P.O.W. (uncredited)
- Cell 2455, Death Row (1955) – Curly (uncredited)
- Mad at the World (1955) – Pete Johnson
- The Naked Street (1955) – Shimmy
- Lucy Gallant (1955) – One of Casey's Air Force Buddies (uncredited)
- Inside Detroit (1956) – Pete Link
- The Killing (1956) – Tiny
- The Proud and Profane (1956) – Patient with Cards (uncredited)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956) – Poor Loser (uncredited)
- The Shadow on the Window (1957) – Lounger (uncredited)
- Hellcats of the Navy (1957) – Chick
- Beau James (1957) – Reporter (uncredited)
- The Midnight Story (1957) – Lothario at Dance (uncredited)
- Jeanne Eagels (1957) – Eddie, Reporter (uncredited)
- House of Numbers (1957) – Bradville – Convict (uncredited)
- Paths of Glory (1957) – Private Pierre Arnaud
- The Beast of Budapest (1958) – Martin
- The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) – Chuck Darrow
- The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) – Henchman Monte
- Verboten! (1959) – Infantryman
- Warlock (1959) – Chet Haggin (uncredited)
- Here Come the Jets (1959) – Henley
- The Purple Gang (1959) – Eddie Olsen
- Visit to a Small Planet (1960) – Malcolm (uncredited)
- The Boy and the Pirates (1960) – Abu the Genie
- Tormented (1960) – Nick, The Blackmailer
- Bat Masterson (1960) – Fargo
- Portrait of a Mobster (1961) – Joe Noe
- The Yellow Canary (1963) – Policeman
- Johnny Cool (1963) – Hoodlum (uncredited)
- The Carpetbaggers (1964) – Reporter (uncredited)
- Combat! (1964) – Pvt. Klimmer
- Village of the Giants (1965) – Sheriff
- King Rat (1965) – Dino
- The Sand Pebbles (1966) – Seaman Bronson
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) – Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik
- The Rat Patrol (1967) – Capt. Bruener
- The Devil's 8 (1969) – Sam
- Scream Free! (1969) – (uncredited)
- Five Savage Men (1970) – Peyote
- Wild in the Sky (1972) – Corazza
- Six Hundred and Sixty–Six (1972) – Col. Ferguson
- Cycle Psycho (1973) – Harry
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) – Man Upstairs (uncredited)
- The Hindenburg (1975) – Detective Moore
- The Commitment (1976) – Jules
- Which Way Is Up? (1977) – Harry Boatwright
- The Shining (1980) – Lloyd
- Blade Runner (1982) – Dr. Eldon Tyrell
- The Dark Side of the Moon (1990) – Paxton Warner
See also[]
References[]
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=wKJRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=joe+turkel+is+polish+jewish&source=bl&ots=9_um5-RXYM&sig=ACfU3U3vPFbeeAbvcZaHOlZy_hHnstRoYw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_zu_Br8DwAhVIdt8KHWtvBxAQ6AEwCnoECBAQAg#v=onepage&q=joe%20turkel%20is%20polish%20jewish&f=false
- ^ Raw, Laurence (2009). The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780810869523. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ "A One on One Chat with Joe Turkel, Blade Runner's Dr. Eldon Tyrell". Blade Zone: The Online Blade Runner Fan Club.
- ^ Joe Turkel, Co Star of "Blade Runner" and "The Shining", at Days Of The Dead Horror Con
- ^ "Occupy Seattle_Joseph Turkel". Retrieved 4 February 2014.
External links[]
- Joe Turkel at IMDb
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