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Which actor played Martin Scorsese’s alter ego in Who’s That Knocking at My Door?
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Martin Scorsese
American film director Martin Scorsese, 2008.
The actor who played Martin Scorsese’s alter ego in his first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), is Harvey Keitel.12
In the film, Keitel portrayed a streetwise but sensitive Italian American character who struggled with his Catholic upbringing and the knowledge of his girlfriend's past trauma. This role marked the beginning of a long-standing professional collaboration between the actor and the director.21