Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime and sectarianism. Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence and the liberal use of profanity. Scorsese has also dedicated his life to film preservation and film restoration by founding the nonprofit organization The Film Foundation in 1990, as well as the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
Scorsese studied at New York University (NYU), where he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1964, and received a master's degree in fine arts in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1968. In 1967 Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door was released and was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival, where critic Roger Ebert saw it and called it "a marvelous evocation of American city life, announcing the arrival of an important new director".
He has established a filmmaking history involving repeat collaborations with actors and film technicians, including nine films made with Robert De Niro. His films with De Niro are the psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), the biographical sports drama Raging Bull (1980), the satirical black comedy The King of Comedy (1982), the musical drama New York, New York (1977), the psychological thriller Cape Fear (1991), and the crime films Mean Streets (1973), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). Scorsese has also been noted for his collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films: the historical epic Gangs of New York (2002), the Howard Hughes biography The Aviator (2004), the crime thriller The Departed (2006), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), and the Wall Street black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The Departed won Scorsese an Academy Award for Best Director, and for Best Picture. Scorsese is also known for his long-time collaboration with film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has edited every Scorsese film beginning with Raging Bull. Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).
Acted in
End of Daylight
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
as Self – Narrator
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
as Self
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
as Radio Show Producer
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright
2023
as Self
Kiarostami at Work
2023
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Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
2023
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
as Self
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
as Self
Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain
2022
as Self
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
2022
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Fragments of Paradise
2022
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
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The Last Movie Stars
2022
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Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues
2022
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A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022
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We Are Cinema
2021
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
2021
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Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021
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El Planeta
2021
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Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
2021
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Pretend It's a City
2021
as Self
Making 'The Irishman'
2020
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30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
2020
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The Oratorio
2020
as Self - Narrator
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
2020
as Self
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
2020
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The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
2020
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The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
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Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
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Spielberg
2017
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
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The Pulitzer At 100
2017
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Martin Scorsese on Framing
2017
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Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
2017
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017
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Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
2017
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Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
as Self - Filmmaker
Cinema Futures
2016
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
2016
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Ken San
2016
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Lumière!
2016
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Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
2015
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The Audition
2015
as Martin Scorsese
Campus Code
2015
as Doctor
Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
as Self
The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
2015
as Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
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This Is Orson Welles
2015
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
as Self
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
Don Rickles: One Night Only
2014
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Wolf Pack
2014
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And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
as John (voice) (uncredited)
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
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Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
2013
as Self - Participant
Trespassing Bergman
2013
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One Direction: This Is Us
2013
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Seduced and Abandoned
2013
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
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Milius
2013
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John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
2013
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
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Bad 25
2012
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Casting By
2012
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
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The Race for Colour
2012
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Bergmans video
2012
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Side by Side
2012
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012
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Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
2012
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
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The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
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The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
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Corman's World
2011
as Self - Filmmaker
Hugo
2011
as Photographer (uncredited)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
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Kurosawa's Way
2011
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Marty on Film
2011
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Marty and Bobby
2011
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Public Speaking
2010
as Self (uncredited)
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010
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A Letter to Elia
2010
as Self - Narrator
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010
as Self
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
2010
as Self
… But Film Is My Mistress
2010
as Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Self – Interviewee
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
as Self
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009
as Self
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009
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Images from the Playground
2009
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American Prince
2009
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Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
2008
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
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O Retorno do Dragão
2008
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Saul Bass: Title Champ
2008
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In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
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Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
2008
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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
2008
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
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Shine a Light
2008
as Self (uncredited)
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
2008
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Milagrez
2008
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Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
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365 Day Project
2007
The Key to Reserva
2007
as Self (uncredited)
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2007
as Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
2007
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
2007
as Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
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Making Casino
2007
as Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
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Brando
2007
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Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
2007
as Self
Crossing Criminal Cultures
2007
as Self
A Beautiful Vacation
2006
as Self
30 Rock
2006
as Martin Scorsese (voice)
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
2006
as Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
as Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
as Self
Edge of Outside
2006
as Self
The Searchers: An Appreciation
2006
as Self
The Real Goodfella
2006
as Self
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
2005
as Self
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Casino: The Story
2005
as Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005
as Self
Club Oscar
2005
as Sykes (voice)
The 'New York, New York' Stories
2005
as Self
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005
as Self
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
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Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
as Self
Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
2005
as Self
The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
2005
as Self
White Heat: Top of the World
2005
as Self
The Eye of the Beholder
2005
as Self
Scorsese on Scorsese
2004
as Self
The Workaday Gangster
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
as Self
Tanner on Tanner
2004
as Self
Shark Tale
2004
as Sykes (voice)
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Self
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004
as Self - Director (voice)
Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’
2004
as Self
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
2004
as Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
as Self
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
as Self - Interviewee
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
as Self (uncredited)
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
2004
as Self - Host / Narrator
Biography - Humphrey Bogart
2003
as Self - Director
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
as Self
The Blues
2003
as Self
The Song of the Little Road
2003
as Self
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003
as Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
as Self
The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
2002
as Self
Gangs of New York
2002
as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
Forever Ealing
2002
as Self
New York at the Movies
2002
as Self
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
2002
as Self
The Day It Happened
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Fellini
2002
as Self
The Neighborhood
2001
as Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
as Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001
as Self
Painting with Light
2001
as Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
as Martin Scorsese
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self
New York: A Documentary Film
1999
as Self - Commentator
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
as Dispatcher (voice)
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
1999
as Self
My Voyage to Italy
1999
as Self - Host
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
as Self
The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman
1999
as Self
The Muse
1999
as Martin Scorsese
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
1998
as Self
With Friends Like These...
1998
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
as Self
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
1998
as Self
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
as Self
The Race to Save 100 Years
1997
as Self
Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece
1997
as Self
Scene by Scene
1997
as Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
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The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
as Self
À la recherche des films perdu
1996
as Self
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995
as Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
1995
as Self
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995
as Self - Host / Narrator
Search and Destroy
1995
as The Accountant
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995
as Self
Everybody Just Stay Calm
1994
as Self
Quiz Show
1994
as Martin Rittenhome
Hi Octane
1994
as Self
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
1994
as Self
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994
as Self - Interviewee
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
The Age of Innocence
1993
as Photographer (uncredited)
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
as Self
Gershwin
1993
as Self
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
as Self
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as Joe Lesser
Making of 'Dreams'
1990
as Self
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
as Self
The Grifters
1990
as Opening voice-over (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
as Self
Dreams
1990
as Vincent Van Gogh
The Scorsese Machine
1990
as Self
First Works
1989
as Self
New York Stories
1989
as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
as Self
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988
as Self
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Isaiah (uncredited)
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
1988
as Self
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as Self - Film Director
The Color of Money
1986
as Narrator (voice)
Round Midnight
1986
as Goodley
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
1986
as Self
Before Midnight
1986
as Self (archive footage)
After Hours
1985
as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
Anna Pavlova
1983
as Gatti-Casazza
The King of Comedy
1982
as TV Director
Raging Bull
1980
as Barbizon Stagehand
In the Pope's Eye
1980
as Direttore Tv
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
as Direttore Tv
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Movies Are My Life
1978
as Self
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
1978
as Self
The Last Waltz
1978
as Self
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978
as Self
The Hollywood Greats
1977
as Self
Cannonball
1976
as Mafioso
Taxi Driver
1976
as Passenger Watching Silhouette
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
Italianamerican
1974
as Self
Mean Streets
1973
as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
1973
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Boxcar Bertha
1972
as Brothel Client (uncredited)
Directed by John Ford
1971
as Self (2006)
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Street Scenes 1970
1970
as Self
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1969
as Gangster (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Marty & Francesca Make a Website
as Self
In the Hand of Dante
as Alighieri's mentor
You Never Know
as Himself