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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 ...
James Patrick Conway (10 August 1946 – 14 February 2020) was an Irish international association footballer who played professionally in Ireland, England and the United States. He earned 20 caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team , playing mainly as a midfielder , and coached extensively at the professional and collegiate ...
In 1955, Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent.
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, 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]
James L. Conway (born 1950), American television director, writer, producer; Jim Conway (musician), Australian harmonica player; James Conway, birth name of British actor James Atherton; Jimmy Conway, character in 1990 film Goodfellas, portrayed by Robert De Niro and based on the real life gangster James Burke
James Terry Conway (born December 26, 1947) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps. [1] [2] [3] Among his previous postings were Director of Operations (J-3) on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Commanding General of 1st Marine Division and I Marine Expeditionary Force, taking part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the First ...
"Speedoo" by The Cadillacs – Kid Henry, the sandwich boy; Jimmy Conway is first introduced. "Parlami d'amore Mariu" by Giuseppe Di Stefano – Young Henry gets pinched for selling cigarettes. "Stardust" by Billy Ward and His Dominoes – Idlewild Airport 1963; First appearance of the grown-up Henry Hill; Truck hijacking.