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Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s—Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld. All featured ...
Martin "Moe" Snyder (December 6, 1893 – November 9, 1981), [a] commonly known as Moe the Gimp due to his lame left leg, was an American gangster from Chicago, active in the 1920s and 1930s. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Louis "Pretty" Amberg (September 18, 1898 – October 23, 1935) was a Jewish American mobster. Along with his brothers Joseph and Hyman Amberg, he competed against Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and the Shapiro Brothers for control of Brooklyn's racketeering activities during the 1920s and early 1930s.
During Licavoli's reign, an Irish gangster named Danny Greene began competing with the Cleveland family for control of the city's rackets. [37] Greene partnered with John Nardi , a rogue Mafia associate and Teamster, who arranged the murder of Calogero "Leo Lips" Moceri, Licavoli's underboss . [ 37 ]
Paul Massey (gangster) (1960–2015) Mark Fellows (hitman) Middlesbrough. Brian Charrington (born 1956) Essex. Tony Tucker (1957–1995) Patrick Tate (1958–1995)
Stanley Tookie Williams III [1] [2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang.
Gangster Billy Kimber was a former Peaky Blinder. [18] Weapons and fashion. In addition to guns, the Peaky Blinders used an assortment of melee weapons, such as ...
Daniel John Patrick "Danny" Greene was born November 14, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio, to John Henry Greene [6] and Irene Cecelia Greene (née Fallon). His father was also born in Cleveland, [7] but his mother was born in Pennsylvania.