Marlon Brando delivers one of his greatest performances in The Godfather, and he took inspiration from real-life gangsters to inform Vito’s character.

The Sopranos never strayed from blurring the lines between fiction and real-life crime lore. But, in a brief scene that many fans may or may not have overlooked, the show brought a real-life gangster ...

It’s hard not to scour the lived-in face of “Albanian Gangster” star John Rezaj ... an ambitious mob screenplay, only to meet real-life ex-con Rezaj and reshape the film into a partly ...

Bombs, machine guns and a lead pipe – tough guys tried the lot on gangster Mickey Cohen but they ... the mob while organised crime swept the US. Real name Meyer Cohen, he was born in a poverty ...

In 2007, actor Denzel Washington starred in "American Gangster," a fictionalized film based on the career of real-life convicted Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas. But Ike Atkinson, another convicted ...

The man whose career as a drug kingpin formed the basis for the movie "American Gangster" has been sentenced for stealing a government check. Frank Lucas had pleaded guilty in May to taking a $ ...