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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 ...
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.
In the early 1950s, Burke co-starred on television alongside Tom Conway in the ABC detective drama Inspector Mark Saber—Homicide Detective, a series later renamed, reformatted, and switched to NBC under the new title Saber of London. [citation needed] In 1955 Burke appeared as Buckshot on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "Border ...
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]
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.
James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology.
Jimmy Burke is the name of: James Burke (gangster) (1931–1996), Irish-American gangster; Jimmy Burke (baseball) (1874–1942), American baseball player; See also
Robert John Burke (born September 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his roles in the early films of Hal Hartley as well as his roles in RoboCop 3 (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Thinner (1996).