Martin Scorsese
Born November 17, 1942 (Age: 83)
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Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door(1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door(1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973).
Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016).
On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
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Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
2025
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as Self
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Age: 83
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
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as Radio Show Producer
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Age: 80
We Are Cinema
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
El Planeta
2021
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 78
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
2020
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as Self
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Age: 77
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GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
2020
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as Self (Archive Footage)
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Age: 77
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Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019
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as
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Age: 76
Martin Scorsese on Framing
2017
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as Self
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Age: 74
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017
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as Self
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Age: 74
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
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as Self
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Age: 72
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
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as Self
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Age: 72
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
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as John (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 71
One Direction: This Is Us
2013
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as Self
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Age: 70
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Race for Colour
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
No Image
Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
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as Self
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Age: 69
Hugo
2011
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as Photographer (uncredited)
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Age: 69
No Image
Marty on Film
2011
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as Self
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Age: 68
Marty and Bobby
2011
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as Self
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Age: 68
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010
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as Self
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Age: 67
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Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009
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as Self
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Age: 66
Shine a Light
2008
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 65
365 Day Project
2007
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as Self
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Age: 65
Cannes: All Access
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
Making Casino
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
Crossing Criminal Cultures
2007
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as Self
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Age: 64
A Beautiful Vacation
2006
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as Self
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Age: 64
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Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
2006
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as Self
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Age: 63
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
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as Self
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Age: 63
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
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as Self
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Age: 63
The Searchers: An Appreciation
2006
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as Self
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Age: 63
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Michael Powell
2005
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as
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Age: 62
Casino: The Story
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
The 'New York, New York' Stories
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
The Eye of the Beholder
2005
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as Self
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Age: 62
Scorsese on Scorsese
2004
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as Self
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Age: 62
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On the Set: Elaine’s
2004
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as Self
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Age: 62
The Workaday Gangster
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 62
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
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as Self
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Age: 61
Shark Tale
2004
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as Sykes (voice)
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Age: 61
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
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as Self
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Age: 61
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004
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as Self - Director (voice)
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Age: 61
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 61
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
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as Self
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Age: 61
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
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as Self - Interviewee
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Age: 61
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
2004
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as Self - Host / Narrator
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Age: 61
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
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as Self
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Age: 60
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
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as Self
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Age: 60
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 60
Gangs of New York
2002
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as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
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Age: 60
Forever Ealing
2002
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as Self
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Age: 60
No Image
New York at the Movies
2002
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as Self
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Age: 59
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 59
The Magic of Fellini
2002
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as Self
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Age: 59
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
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as Self
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Age: 58
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
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as Self
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Age: 57
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
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as Dispatcher (voice)
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Age: 56
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
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as Self
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Age: 56
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
1998
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as Self
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Age: 55
With Friends Like These
1998
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as Martin Scorsese
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Age: 55
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
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as Self
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Age: 55
No Image
The Race to Save 100 Years
1997
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as Self
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Age: 54
Obsessed with Vertigo
1997
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as Self
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Age: 54
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
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as Self
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Age: 54
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
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as Self
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Age: 53
No Image
À la recherche des films perdu
1996
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as Self
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Age: 53
Search and Destroy
1995
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as The Accountant
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Age: 52
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Everybody Just Stay Calm
1994
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as Self
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Age: 52
Quiz Show
1994
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as Sponsor
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Age: 51
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
1994
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as Self
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Age: 51
The Age of Innocence
1993
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as Photographer (uncredited)
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Age: 50
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
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as Self
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Age: 50
Gershwin
1993
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as Self
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Age: 50
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
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as Self
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Age: 50
Martin a Little...
1992
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as himself
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Age: 49
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
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as Joe Lesser
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Age: 48
Making of 'Dreams'
1990
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as Self
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Age: 47
The Scorsese Machine
1990
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as Self
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Age: 47
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
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as Self
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Age: 47
Made in Milan
1990
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as
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Age: 47
The Grifters
1990
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as Opening voice-over (uncredited)
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Age: 47
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
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as Self
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Age: 47
Dreams
1990
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as Vincent Van Gogh
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Age: 47
New York Stories
1989
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as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
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Age: 46
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Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
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as Self
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Age: 46
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Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988
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as Self
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Age: 45
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
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as Isaiah (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Movies Are My Life
1988
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as Self
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Age: 45
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
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as Self
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Age: 45
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
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as Self - Film Director
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Age: 44
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
1987
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as Self
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Age: 44
The Color of Money
1986
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 43
'Round Midnight
1986
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as Goodley
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Age: 43
Before Midnight
1986
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 43
After Hours
1985
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as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
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Age: 42
The King of Comedy
1982
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as TV Director
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Age: 40
Raging Bull
1980
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as Barbizon Stagehand
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Age: 37
In the Pope's Eye
1980
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as Direttore Tv
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Age: 37
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
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as Direttore Tv
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Age: 37
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
1979
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as Self
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Age: 37
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
1978
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as Self
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Age: 35
The Last Waltz
1978
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as Self
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Age: 35
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978
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as Self
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Age: 35
Cannonball
1976
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as Mafioso
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Age: 33
Taxi Driver
1976
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as Passenger Watching Silhouette
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Age: 33
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
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as Diner Patron (uncredited)
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Age: 32
Italianamerican
1974
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 31
Mean Streets
1973
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as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
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Age: 30
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
1973
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as Self
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Age: 30