Real-life mobster Whitey Bulger hated being played by Jack Nicholson, whose character in 'The Departed,' Frank Costello, was based on Bulger's life story.

different Italian mob bosses in the film who are based on real-life mafia rivals, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. Jack Nicholson previously portrayed Frank Costello in Scorsese's Academy Award ...

it would have ties to the mob? Kastel, a longtime associate of Luciano family crime boss Frank Costello, insisted his friend had nothing to do with the Tropicana. Then, on May 2, 1957, less than a ...

Two of those friends are fellow mobsters Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. The Mob Museum has the only physical copy of the 12-minute and 20-second home movie, which was captured on 16mm film.

As well as mafia don Frank Costello, De Niro also plays… well, mafia don Vito Genovese, former friends who find themselves going head-to-head in mid-20th Century New York. Roll up for double De ...

Al Capone’s “Sweetheart” pistol, a Colt 1911, is on public display for the first time in “The First Public Enemy.” ...

So just as undercover cop Billy Costigan (Di Caprio) infiltrates a gang of mobsters led by the malevolent Frank Costello (Nicholson), so Costello has his own man, Colin Sullivan (Damon), inside ...

Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese ... a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.