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Oct 19, 2015 · The very short answer is that The Goatsingers is actor Harvey Keitel’s production company. From a 2002 biography on Filmbug: Together with his partner Peggy Gormley, Keitel has his own film production company, The Goatsingers, which has a first look deal with Kinowelt USA, the U.S. production arm of Munich-based Kinowelt Medien AG.
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Keitel’s parents ran a lunch counter in Brooklyn. His dad also made hats as a side hustle. Shutterstock
Aimless, and restless, Harvey Keitel joined the US Marine Corps at barely 17 years old. He took part in the US invasion of Lebanon, in 1958, called “Operation Blue Bat.” Wikipedia
Imagining young Keitel as a marine, taking part in a beach invasion, I pictured something horrendous, like Saving Private Ryan. But thankfully, “Operation Blue Bat” was swift and relatively peaceful. Instead of bloody force, the marines encountered lazing beachgoers, groups of construction workers, and villagers doing chores. Some local youngsters ...
Keitel was acting in off-Broadway productions when he saw an ad for a student film and contacted the director. That student director was Martin Scorsese, and the two became lifelong friends. Wikimedia Commons
In 1992, Keitel’s film career reached new heights when he starred as Mr. White in Quentin Tarantino’s first huge film, Reservoir Dogs. Reservoir Dogs (1992), Miramax
Keitel has been careful to select roles to highlight his acting range, although his most celebrated choices have been characters displaying an “intense moral center” and a propensity towards extreme violence. Wikipedia
Before he got serious about acting, Harvey Keitel worked a dead-end salesman job in a women’s shoe store. Is anyone else picturing a young Mr. White, brandishing a shoehorn? Reservoir Dogs (1992), Miramax
Harvey Keitel also tried his hand (or his speedy typing fingers, in this case) as a court stenographer. He said he wanted to try it out because he could work without having to truly interact with anyone. Wikimedia Commons
Keitel was always Quentin Tarantino’s dream choice to play Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs—but Tarantino never thought his pipe dream would come true. By a stroke of luck, someone knew someone who knew Keitel and they sent the script to him. Not only did Keitel sign on to play Mr. White, he brought in a ton of green too, and he ever worked as a co-prod...
Keitel’s role as Winston the “cleaner” in Pulp Fiction just reeks of deadpan and cool—maybe because he already had experience! Just two years earlier, he played another cleaner in the film Point of No Return. Pulp Fiction (1994), Miramax
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Peggy Gormley has worked as an actress and independent producer in New York for over twenty years. Peggy was actor Harvey Keitel’s producing partner at his production company The Goatsingers, where she served as executive producer of The Grey Zone directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
Together with his partner Peggy Gormley, Keitel has his own film production company, The Goatsingers, which has a first look deal with Kinowelt USA, the U.S. production arm of Munich-based Kinowelt Medien AG.
