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In the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino the protagonist, Sam "Ace" Rothstein, was named for Arnold Rothstein [citation needed] but modeled on real-life sports bettor and fixer Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. In the 1999 biopic Lansky, played by Stanley DeSantis. In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, played by Michael Stuhlbarg.
Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a main character in Seasons 1-4 and a recurring antagonist throughout the 4 seasons. He is a powerful and intelligent New York gangster who enters into business with Nucky and is based on the real-life historical figure of the same name.
He is shot to death by Jimmy Darmody after making boorish comments about him, Nucky and Rothstein. Matteo D'Alessio: Ignacious and Leo's younger brother, Lucien, Sixtus and Pius's older brother, a member of the D'Alessio criminal operation and an associate of Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Mickey Doyle. He is strangled and choked to death ...
The fifth and final season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire premiered on September 7, 2014, and concluded on October 26, 2014, consisting of 8 episodes. The series was created by Terence Winter and based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson.
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), [7] a political figure who rises to prominence and controls Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nucky interacts with historical characters in both his personal and political life ...
On television, he portrayed Arnold Rothstein in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010–2013), Richard A. Clarke in The Looming Tower (2018), and Richard Sackler in Dopesick (2021), receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nominations for the latter two.
Mickey persuades the D'Alessio brothers to rob the ward boss in broad daylight on the boardwalk. [3] He then joins them in going into business with Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg). [4] Soon after, the D'Alessios unilaterally decide to assassinate Nucky without consulting Doyle, but they botch the hit and Nucky escapes unharmed.
Rothstein telephones Nucky and demands $100,000 to cover his losses from the robbery and for the murder of one of the drivers, who happens to be his sister-in-law's nephew. Nucky refuses and threatens to have him killed if he ever returns to Atlantic City.