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Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish American mob boss and prohibition-era Chicago bootlegger.He is best remembered for having been framed by his rivals in Chicago organized crime for the fake 1933 kidnapping of Jewish-American organized crime figure and Chicago Outfit associate John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor Sr.
Roger Touhy (1898–1959) and his brother Tommy Touhy, American gangsters in Chicago "Abdul the Terrible", nickname given a Turkish sniper assigned to kill Chinese-Australian sniper Billy Sing during World War I; In fiction and mythology: Humbaba, a giant in Akkadian mythology; Ivy the Terrible, a character in The Beano comic strip
Roger Touhy, Gangster is a 1944 American gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy, directed by film noir specialist Robert Florey. Parts of the film were shot at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, Illinois , where Touhy himself was serving time.
Roger Touhy: 1898–1959 1920–1933 Chicago mobster and bootlegger during Prohibition Frank Wallace: No image available: 1904–1931 -1931 Boston mobster and leader of the Gustin Gang during Prohibition Danny Walsh: No image available: 1893–1933 1920–1933 Providence bootlegger and major organized crime figure in southern New England during ...
John Touhy (1919–1983), American politician; Patrick L. Touhy (1839–1911), American businessman; Roger Touhy (1898–1959), Irish American mob boss; Places.
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) – biographical gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy [165] Saint Francis of Assisi (Spanish: San Francisco de Asís) (1944) – Mexican historical drama film portraying the life of the Italian Saint Francis of Assisi [166]
Basil Hugh "The Owl" Banghart Jr. (September 11, 1901– April 5, 1982) was an American criminal, burglar, and prison escape artist. Although a successful "stickup artist" during the 1920s and early 1930s, he is best remembered for his involvement in the hoax kidnapping of Chicago mobster Jake "the Barber" Factor, a crime for which Roger Touhy and he were eventually proven innocent after ...
Lady Gangster is a 1942 Warner Bros. B picture crime film directed by Robert Florey, credited as "Florian Roberts".It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye, who in 1928, as #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison.