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Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (born Uinseann Ó Colla, July 20, 1908 – February 8, 1932) was an Irish-American mob hitman in the 1920s and early 1930s in New York City. Coll gained notoriety for the alleged accidental killing of a young child during a mob kidnap attempt.
The film is a heavily fictionalized treatment of the life of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll Curran, who was born in 1908 in County Donegal, Ireland.In the film, Coll is depicted as growing up with an abusive father who beats and ridicules him (the film opens with him machine-gunning his father's gravestone), and started a street gang at a very young age, which led in turn to organized crime.
Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll: 1908–1932 1924–1932 New York mobster and freelance enforcer during Prohibition James Coonan: 1947– 1962–1988 New York mobster and leader of the Westies during the 1970s and 80s Timmy Connolly 1: No image available: 1958– 1976–1995 Member of the Winter Hill Gang Eddie "The Butcher" Cummiskey: No image ...
Mad Dog Coll (1908–1932) was an Irish-American mob hitman. Mad Dog Coll may also refer to: Mad Dog Coll, directed by Burt Balaban; Mad Dog ...
In two films in 1961, he portrayed the gangster Vincent Coll in Mad Dog Coll as well as a kind of mad-dog teen killer in The Young Savages.He appeared in several of Sam Peckinpah's Western films as well as on television between the 1960s and 1990s in The Rifleman, Route 66, Straightaway, The Virginian, Adam-12, Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Quincy, M.E., Columbo, Murder She Wrote, and Star ...
Mad Dog Coll is a 1992 film directed by Greydon Clark. It stars Christopher Bradley and Bruce Noizick. It stars Christopher Bradley and Bruce Noizick. It was released in the United States on home video as Killer Instinct .
When Schultz refused, Coll formed his own crew with the ultimate goal of murdering Schultz and taking over his territory. In the bloody gang war that followed, Coll lost his older brother Pete and earned the nickname "Mad Dog" from the press after a child was killed during a botched assassination attempt committed by his gang.
On The Untouchables, he played the role of real-life vicious mob killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Gulager was hailed for his utterly chilling performance as the psychopathic Coll. Late in 1959, he was cast as Beau Chandler in the episode "Jessie Quinn" of the NBC Western series Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds.