Literature Capone is featured in a segment of Mario Puzos The Godfather as an ally of a New York mob boss in which he sends, at the mob boss request, two button men to kill Don Vito Corleone; arriving in New York, the two men are intercepted by and brutally killed by Luca Brasi, after which Don Corleone sends a message to Capone warning him to not interfere again and Capone apparently capitulates.[37] Capone is featured in the Kinky Friedman novel, The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover (1997).[citation needed] Capone is an antagonist in Hergés fictional Tintin in America and is referenced in Tintin in the Congo. He is the only real-life character depicted in the The Adventures of Tintin series. Al Capone is referenced in Gennifer Choldenkos 2004 historical fiction book, Al Capone Does My Shirts, and its sequel Al Capone Shines My Shoes.[citation needed] In a book of photographs titled New York City Gangland (2010), both Capone and his NYC bootlegging ally, Giuseppe Joe the Boss Masseria, appear in Prohibition-era bathing beauty portraits.[38] A reincarnated Capone is a major character in science fiction author Peter F. Hamiltons Nights Dawn Trilogy. Capones appearance was the model for the dummy of Batman villain the Ventriloquist, aptly named Scarface. Capones niece, Deirdre Marie Capone, wrote a book titled Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family.[39] Al Capone is a central character in the fantasy novel Cosa Nosferatu, which imagines Capone and Eliot Ness entangled with Randolph Carter and other elements of H.P. Lovecraft mythos. Al Capone is the central character of Armitage Trails novel Scarface (1929),[40] which was the basis for the 1932 film of the same name. Film and television Capone has been portrayed on screen by: Rod Steiger in Al Capone (1959).[41] Neville Brand in the TV series The Untouchables and again in the movie The George Raft Story (1961).[41] José Calvo in Due mafiosi contro Al Capone (1966).[41] Jason Robards in The St. Valentines Day Massacre (1967).[41] Ben Gazzara in Capone (1975).[41] Robert De Niro in The Untouchables (1987).[41] Ray Sharkey in The Revenge of Al Capone (1989) Eric Roberts in The Lost Capone (1990) William Forsythe in The Untouchables (1993–1994) William Devane as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (13 November 1994)[citation needed] F. Murray Abraham in Dillinger and Capone (1995). Anthony LaPaglia in Road to Perdition (2002), in a deleted scene.[42] Julian Littman in Als Lads (2002) Jon Bernthal in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009).[43] Stephen Graham in Boardwalk Empire (2010) Actors playing characters based on Capone include: Wallace Beery as Louis Louie Scorpio in The Secret Six (1931).[41] Ricardo Cortez as Goldie Gorio in Bad Company (1931).[41] Paul Lukas as Big Fellow Maskal in City Streets (1931).[41] Edward Arnold as Duke Morgan in Okay, America! (1932).[41] Jean Hersholt as Samuel Sam Belmonte in The Beast of the City (1932).[41] Paul Muni as Antonio Tony Camonte in Scarface (1932). C. Henry Gordon as Nick Diamond in Gabriel Over the White House (1933).[41] John Litel as Gat Brady in Alcatraz Island (1937).[41] Barry Sullivan as Shubunka in The Gangster (1947).[41] Ralph Volkie as Big Fellow in The Undercover Man (1949).[41] Edmond OBrien as Fran McCarg in Pete Kellys Blues (1955).[41] Lee J. Cobb as Rico Angelo in Party Girl (1958).[41] George Raft as Spats Colombo and Nehemiah Persoff as Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot (1959).[41] Frank Ronzio as Litmus in Escape from Alcatraz (1979) introduces himself to newcomer Charlie Butts as Al Capone. The movie is set in 1962, 15 years after Capones death. Al Pacino as Alphonse Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy (1990).[41]
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