Joe Turkel
Know for: Acting
Born: 1927-07-15
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also know as:
Blade Runner (1982)
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...
The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...
Paths of Glory (1957)
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running...
The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the...
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and...
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
The Glass Wall (1953)
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped...
Tormented (1960)
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...
Village of the Giants (1965)
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some...
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with...
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
The Hindenburg (1975)
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of...
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take...
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from...
The Chickening (2015)
It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and...
Mad at the World (1955)
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured...
The Animals (1970)
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice...
The Naked Street (1955)
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get...
Triple Trouble (1950)
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives...
Reel Horror (1985)
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
Levitation (1985)
Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it...
The Sex Symbol (1974)
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her...
Wild in the Sky (1972)
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
The Purple Gang (1959)
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
The Beast of Budapest (1958)
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the...
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and...
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Lucky Losers (1950)
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his...
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
The Shadow on the Window (1957)
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage....
Here Come the Jets (1959)
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
Six Hundred and Sixty-Six (1972)
A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks world events consider all options as nuclear war is...
Inside Detroit (1956)
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair...
King Rat (1965)
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi...
The Yellow Canary (1963)
Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los...
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott,...
Savage Abduction (1973)
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of...
Man Crazy (1953)
Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
Angels in Disguise (1949)
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
The Boy and the Pirates (1960)
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's...
House of Numbers (1957)
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
Federal Man (1950)
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Starlift (1951)
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...
The Bamboo Prison (1954)
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
Gypsy Colt (1954)
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
City Across the River (1949)
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously...
Return from the Sea (1954)
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
The Human Jungle (1954)
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also...
Sword in the Desert (1949)
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Halls of Montezuma (1951)
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into...
Verboten! (1959)
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Warlock (1959)
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire...
Johnny Cool (1963)
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
The Devil's Eight (1969)
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust...
The Midnight Story (1957)
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed...
Scream Free! (1969)
A man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers.
The Commitment (1976)
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
Famous Ghost Stories (1961)
A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist...