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Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrates on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz , and Lucky Luciano (Andy García). [2]
In the 1971 film Shaft and its 1973 sequel Shaft's Big Score!, Moses Gunn portrays "Bumpy Jonas", a character based upon Johnson. [14] In the 1972 film Come Back, Charleston Blue, the title character is loosely based on Bumpy Johnson, a criminal who is looked upon as a positive role model among the people. [15] In the 1979 film Escape from ...
Godfather of Harlem is an American crime drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2019, on Epix. [1] The series is written by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and stars Forest Whitaker as 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johnson.
The actor plays Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the real-life complicated criminal who once ruled Harlem's heroin trade. How Forest Whitaker plays a poet, philanthropist, murderer and drug kingpin all ...
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia.
Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Died: 1968. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery. Bronx, New York. Bumpy Johnson has been called the Godfather of Harlem, and even inspired a television series of the same name ...
Epix has released a trailer for Season 2 of its period crime drama Godfather of Harlem — as well as as bevy of new cast additions. Premiering Sunday, April 18, Season 2 finds Bumpy Johnson ...
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 [nb 1] – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963.