The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).

The result was that nothing was done – the Committee of Three declined into irrelevance due to the loss of power by Keitel and Lammers and the ascension of Bormann and the situation continued to drift, with administrative chaos increasingly undermining the war effort.

Keitel was also responsible for convincing De Niro to play Johnny Boy.

As part of the reorganization of the military command structure following the Blomberg – Fritsch Affair in early 1938, it was declared that the service chiefs, namely OKW chief Wilhelm Keitel, Army commander Walter von Brauchitsch, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring and Raeder were to have the same status as Cabinet ministers and as such, they all started to receive publicly the same pay as a Cabinet member and privately payments from Konto 5 slush fund.

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel ( 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946 ) was a German field marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ).

Keitel was born in Bad Gandersheim, Duchy of Brunswick, German Empire, the son of Carl Keitel, a middle class landowner and his wife Apollonia Vissering.

Keitel recovered, and thereafter was posted to the German General Staff in early 1915.

In late 1924, Keitel was transferred to the Ministry of Defence ( Reichswehrministerium ), serving with the Troop Office ( Truppenamt ), the post-Versailles disguised General Staff.

In 1935, based on a recommendation by Werner von Fritsch, Keitel was promoted to major-general and appointed as the departmental head of the Wehrmachtsamt ( Armed Forces Office ) which had the responsibility over all three branches of the armed forces.

His youngest son, Hans-Georg Keitel, was severely wounded in the thigh during the 1940 campaign in France.

Another son, Major Ernst-Wilhelm Keitel, was captured by the Russians at the end of World War II.

Keitel's brother, General Bodewin Keitel, an infantry general in the Army High Command ( OKH ), was captured by Allied forces in 1945 and released in 1947.

On the day of the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler, Bodewin Keitel was on an inspection tour in his command area in Danzig, when his command post inadvertently received a telex from a citizen of Berlin addressed to his first officer, Hasso von Boehmer from the co-conspirator's headquarters in the Bendlerblock, arranging the first steps to then be taken by participant Boehmer.

Wilhelm Keitel was somehow not injured or killed in the bomb blast, and also was the only one present at Wolf's Lair assassination not to suffer a perforated eardrum from the bomb blast.

In the following year, after the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, the Ministry of War ( Reichskriegsministerium ) was replaced by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW ), and Keitel was appointed as its chief.

This effectively made Keitel Germany's war minister, and accordingly he was appointed to the Cabinet.

For a brief period in October 1938, Keitel was Military Governor of the Sudetenland.

During World War II, Keitel was one of the primary planners of the Wehrmacht campaigns and operations on the western and the eastern fronts.

Unusually for a non-field commander, Keitel was awarded the Knight's Cross for arranging the armistice with France.

Keitel then slammed his fist onto the table, and, although he knew the exact opposite was true, said " Mein Führer, the Reichsmarschall is correct.

As a military officer, Keitel was prohibited by law from joining the NSDAP ( Nazi Party ).

Harvey Keitel ( born May 13, 1939 ) is an American actor.

Keitel is the father of three children: daughter Stella ( born 1985 ) from his relationship with Bracco ; son Hudson ( born 2001 ) from his relationship with Lisa Karmazin ; and son Roman ( born 2004 ) from his marriage to Kastner.

* Karl-Heinz Keitel ( born 1914 ), Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer and son of Wilhelm Keitel

* Harvey Keitel ( born 1939 ), American actor

* Stella Keitel ( born 1985 ), American actress

* Horst Keitel ( born 1928 ), actor, member of the Heiligenstadt theatre from 1946 to 1951.

Charlie ( Harvey Keitel ) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless friend, Johnny Boy ( Robert De Niro ), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks.

Keitel with singer Harry Belafonte in New York, April 2011His later roles include the fatherly Satan in Little Nicky, a wise Navy man in U-571, diligent F. B. I.

In January 2008, Keitel played Jerry Springer in the New York City premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall.

* City of Industry ( film ), directed by John Irvin and starring Harvey Keitel and Stephen Dorff

Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry.

Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by Jack Kerouac, jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, which was spoken by Harvey Keitel.

The film follows the lives of multiple characters, all of whom are connected by their patronage of a small Brooklyn tobacco shop managed by Auggie ( Harvey Keitel ).

His eldest son, Karl-Heinz Keitel went on to serve as a divisional commander in the Waffen-SS.

Meanwhile, Jacob ( Harvey Keitel ), a pastor who is experiencing a crisis of faith, arrives at the same motel with his daughter Kate ( Juliette Lewis ) and his adopted son Scott ( Ernest Liu ).

Close friend Harvey Keitel is the godfather of Madsen's son Max.

His daughter Dorothea became engaged to Leutnant Karl-Heinz Keitel — General Wilhelm Keitel's eldest son — in January 1938.

Later, he had minor roles in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ) and Death Watch with Harvey Keitel and Harry Dean Stanton ( 1979 ).

In February 1941 he was present at a meeting along with Speer, Bormann and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel at which Hitler had set out his views on the " Jewish question " at some length, making it clear that he intended the " disappearance " of the Jews one way or another.

His father's ashes ( supposedly scattered after being hanged ) were purchased from the Americans and are buried with him and his uncle Bodewin Keitel at the family plot in Bad Gandersheim.

Keitel accepted Hitler's directive for Operation Citadel in 1943, despite strong opposition from several field officers who argued that neither the troops nor the new tanks on which Hitler staked his hopes for victory were ready.

Before his execution, Keitel published Mein Leben: Pflichterfüllung bis zum Untergang: Hitlers Feldmarschall und Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht in Selbstzeugnissen, otherwise known in English as In the Service of the Reich, and was later re-edited as The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel by Walter Görlitz from a translation by David Irving as the author in 1965.

The length for the rope used for the execution was calculated in such a way that Keitel did not die quickly from a broken neck, but " agonizingly from slow strangulation, struggling for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring.

As head of the WFA, Keitel appointed Max von Viebahn although after two months he was removed from command, and this post was not refilled until the promotion of Alfred Jodl.

During the entire period of the war, the OKW was led by Keitel, who reported directly to Hitler, from whom most operational orders actually originated as Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht ( Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ).

" Keitel admonished Canaris to go no further with his protest as the detailed plan of atrocities came directly from Hitler, himself.

General Alfred Jodl noted in his diary that the partial Czech mobilisation of 21 May had led Hitler to issue a new order for Operation Green on 30 May, and that this was accompanied by a covering letter from Keitel stating that the plan must be implemented by 1 October at the very latest.

Supported by Rommel, he tried to persuade Keitel at OKW that the only escape was to withdraw from Normandy to a prepared defensive line on the Seine, but Hitler forbade any withdrawal.

Keitel immediately reported Rundstedt's words to Hitler, whereupon Hitler dismissed him from his post, replacing him with Kluge.

The German Wehrmacht was understrength, especially after continuous operations between June 1942 and February 1943, to the point where Hitler appointed a committee made up of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Martin Bormann and Hans Lammers, to recruit 800, 000 new able-bodied men — half of whom would come from " nonessential industries ".

Built in the middle of a protecting forest, and located far from major roads, the complex occupied more than and consisted of three separate security zones, the most important of which was Sperrkreis 1 ( Security Zone 1 ), in which was located the Führer Bunker and concrete shelters of members of the inner circle such as Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, OKW chief Wilhelm Keitel and " chief of operations " OKW Alfred Jodl.