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In the 1984 film The Cotton Club, Laurence Fishburne plays a character based on Bumpy Johnson, "Bumpy Rhodes". [18] [14] In the 1997 film Hoodlum, Johnson is again portrayed by Fishburne. [18] [14] In the 1999 film Life, musician Rick James plays a Harlem gangster, "Spanky Johnson", who was loosely inspired by Bumpy Johnson.
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.
Mayme Hatcher Johnson (died 2009), wife of gangster Bumpy Johnson Mayme Kelso (1867–1946), American actress of the silent era Mayme Kratz (born 1958) is a fine artist and desert forager
In 1934, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson is released from Sing Sing and returns to Harlem, where mobster Dutch Schultz asserts his control of the lucrative numbers game.Schultz begrudgingly reports to Mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who pays bribes to special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey to protect his business.
The mafiosi then had to go to "Bumpy" first if they had any problems in Harlem. [ citation needed ] Luciano realized that the war in Harlem was bad for business. Schultz was fatally wounded in a shooting ordered by The Commission in 1935; St. Clair, though uninvolved in the hit, sent an infamous telegram to Schultz on his deathbed that read ...
In addition to his kids with Phleger and Griffith, Johnson also shares a son, Jesse Johnson, 41, with ex Patti D'Arbanville, 73. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger in L.A. in 2001
[5] [9] That year, she made her screen debut as Elise Johnson, the daughter of Bumpy Johnson as played by Forest Whitaker, in Godfather of Harlem on Epix. [2] [6] In 2021, Crowe-Legacy featured in Passing, a film adaptation of the Nella Larsen novel of the same name directed by Rebecca Hall. [10]
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