1. Joseph Turkel was an American character actor who starred in film and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s.
12 Facts About Joe Turkel
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Joe Turkel is probably best-known for his roles in Stanley Kubrick's films The Killing, Paths of Glory, and The Shining, and as Dr Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner.
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Joe Turkel had roles in three of Bert I Gordon's films.
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Joe Turkel was born in Brooklyn on July 15,1927, to Benjamin Joe Turkel, who was a tailor, and Gazella, a homemaker and occasional opera singer.
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Joe Turkel joined the United States Army when he was seventeen and served in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
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Joe Turkel appeared on the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Jim Rellance on November 13,1956.
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Joe Turkel 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.
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Joe Turkel's best known roles are Lloyd, the ghostly bartender in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Dr Eldon Tyrell, the android manufacturer in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
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Joe Turkel was one of only two actors to have worked with Kubrick as a credited character three times.
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Joe Turkel said in a 2014 interview that Paths of Glory was his favorite among his films.
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Joe Turkel was married to Anita Josephine Cacciatore, with whom he had two sons.
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On June 27,2022, Joe Turkel died at the age of 94 from liver failure at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.