Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Serpico is a 1973 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas , with the assistance of its subject Frank Serpico .
Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico (/ ˈ s ɜːr p ɪ k oʊ / SUR-pik-oh; born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice ...
Serpico is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 1976, until January 28, 1977. The series was based on the book by Peter Maas and the 1973 film of the same name that starred Al Pacino in the title role. A television movie, Serpico: The Deadly Game, served as pilot and aired in April 1976. [1]
Serpico is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frank Serpico (born 1936), New York Police Department officer; Jim Serpico, American ...
Serpico was born in Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, the youngest of three children. [1] [better source needed] He became interested in acting after graduating from high school. He attended Boston University before transferring to and graduating from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1989. [2] [3] [4] He is of German and Italian ...
Serpico is a film based on Frank Serpico Serpico also may refer to: Topics related to the police officer who inspired the film: Frank Serpico, New York Police Department officer; Serpico, a biography of Frank Serpico by Peter Maas; Serpico, the television series based on Serpico's life and the film
In addition to interviewing "lamplighters" (whistleblowers) Serpico and Durk, the Commission heard testimony from former Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, corrupt patrolmen, and victims of police shakedowns. [7] As a result of the testimony of these witnesses, criminal indictments against corrupt police officials were handed down.
Jack Kehoe (November 21, 1934 – January 14, 2020) [1] was an American film actor appearing in a wide variety of films, including the crime dramas Serpico (1973), The Sting (1973), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) and Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987), as well as the cult favorites Car Wash (1976) and Midnight Run (1988), the popular western Young Guns II (1990), and On the Nickel ...