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Mug shots: 6 of the best Hollywood gangsters
Johnny Depp’s turn as John Dillinger in Public Enemies got us thinking about other real-life gangsters whose stories have made it to the big screen. So here’s our very own rogue’s gallery — five classic outlaws and the actors who made them even more infamous.
1. Robert De Niro as Al Capone
(The Untouchables)
A joyfully scenery-chewing turn as arguably the most fiendish crime kingpin of them all. And, boy, does this guy know how to wield a baseball bat.
2.Warren Beatty as Bugsy Siegel
(Bugsy)
Hollywood’s most seductive ladies’ man was never more seductive than playing the nattily tailored, impossibly charming Siegel, the man whom many credit for inventing Las Vegas as a mecca of gambling and sin. (Bonus gangster: Watch out for Ben Kinsgley as a superb Meyer Lansky.)
3.Ray Liotta as Henry Hill
(Goodfellas)
From a starry-eyed teenager to a coke-addicted middle-aged man, Liotta brilliantly charts the rise-and-fall of the modern mobster.
4.Armand Assante as John Gotti
(Gotti)
An underappreciated actor in an underappreciated television movie about the notorious 1980s crime boss.
5.Shelley Winters as Ma Barker
(Bloody Mama)
Who says gangster movies are a boys-only club? Check out this 1970 Roger Corman cult classic, featuring a delightfully hysterical Winters as the wicked matriarch who ran her own gang. Christopher Kelly
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