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Thomas DeSimone was born in New York City, New York, on June 6, 1946.He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979.
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .
Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City.As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named McKinney. As an adult, he joins the New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem.
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
In the 1990 film Goodfellas, the character "Vinnie" (played by Charles Scorsese, the father of director Martin Scorsese) is based on Agro. [citation needed] Vinnie is seen cooking sauce while in prison and when the character Tommy DeVito (based on Thomas DeSimone) is murdered. Agro is portrayed by Ron Gabriel in the 2001 film Boss of Bosses.
James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time.
Black Doves follows Helen (Knightley) in the days after Jason, (Andrew Koji) the man she has been having an affair with, is murdered. As she tries to unravel the mystery of who ordered Jason’s ...
Frank Vincent Gattuso Jr. (April 15, 1937 – September 13, 2017) [1] was an American actor and musician. [2] Known for often portraying violent mobsters and criminals, he was a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Martin Scorsese, appearing as Salvy in Raging Bull (1980), Billy Batts in Goodfellas (1990), and Frank Marino in Casino (1995). [3]