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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. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
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.
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 .
William "Billy Batts" Bentvena (February 22, 1933 – June 11, 1970), also known as William Devino, [2] was an American mobster with the Gambino crime family who was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s.
Lorraine Bracco opened up about the first time she met Liotta—in Scorsese's apartment.
Before Guy Pearce made his mark on the big screen with performances in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Memento (2000), he got his start as ...
James L. Conway (born 1950), American television director, writer, producer; Jim Conway (musician), Australian harmonica player; James Conway, birth name of British actor James Atherton; Jimmy Conway, character in 1990 film Goodfellas, portrayed by Robert De Niro and based on the real life gangster James Burke
A Man on the Inside is based on the real-life story of widower Sergio Chamy, who at 83 years old, was hired by private eye Rómulo Aitken to go undercover as a resident at a nursing home in Chile, ...