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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.
The story of Roberts' investigation and prosecution of Frank Lucas was adapted into the 2007 film American Gangster, starring Academy Award-winning actors Denzel Washington portraying Lucas and Russell Crowe portraying Roberts. The film grossed more than US$127 million [22] and was met with generally positive reviews. [23]
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie "American Gangster," has died, a relative said Friday.
Frank Lucas, the former heroin dealer and drug kingpin whose life became the subject of Ridley Scott's 2007 film "American Gangster," died Thursday. He was 88. Lucas' nephew, Aldwan Lassiter ...
Barnes was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film American Gangster (2007), starring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas and directed by Ridley Scott. Barnes was portrayed by Derrick Baskin in the mini-series "The Offer" (2022).
The former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie "American Gangster," has died, a relative said Friday. Frank Lucas, druglord portrayed in 'American Gangster,' dies Skip ...
Shad Gaspard was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on January 13, 1981. [1] He was of Curaçaoan and Haitian descent. His father was a former enforcer for street gangs and later a personal security guard in the early 1970s; he worked for gangster Frank Lucas and currently owns McFay Contracting Inc.