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Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] ... De Niro often called Hill several times a day to ask how Burke walked, held ...
James Burke was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, renamed Jimmy Conway. Burke was played by John Mahoney in the 1991 television film The 10 Million Dollar Getaway, which details the events of the Lufthansa Heist. Donald Sutherland also portrayed Burke for the 2001 television film The Big Heist.
In 2000, De Niro appeared in the comedy film Meet the Parents, which was a commercial success, later reprising his role in the 2004 and 2010 sequels. In 2012, De Niro appeared in the David O. Russell film Silver Linings Playbook, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. [35]
For Goodfellas, De Niro’s mob hitman character Jimmy Conway had to age by several decades midway through the shoot, and so Mr Harvey devised a rigorous three-week training programme to make him ...
Robert De Niro as former President George Mullen. Netflix. ... He's starred in iconic films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Godfather: Part II, and The Irishman, ...
De Niro and Scorsese soon reunited for their sixth collaboration in 1990, with the crime film Goodfellas. It is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi . The film narrates the life of mob associate Henry Hill ( Ray Liotta ) and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.
AMC says the film ‘includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards’
Robert De Niro, who portrayed Jimmy Conway (the film's version of Burke), often called Hill several times a day to ask how Burke walked, held his cigarette, and so on. [46] [47] Driving to and from the set, Liotta listened to FBI audio cassette tapes of Hill, so he could practice speaking like his real-life counterpart. [47]