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Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
Apr 2, 2014 · Henry Hill was a member of the Lucchese crime family who became a federal informant, inspiring the Martin Scorsese movie 'Goodfellas.'
Mar 9, 2024 · Henry Hill, the central character in Goodfellas (played by Ray Liotta), was born in 1943 to an Irish-American father and a Sicilian-American mother in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. It was a neighborhood filled with mafiosos and Hill admired them all from a young age.
Apr 15, 2024 · Updated April 17, 2024. The gangster-turned-informant who inspired Goodfellas, Henry Hill's true story was far crazier than the 1990 film could ever portray. Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas is a classic mob drama, telling the story of a young gangster as he becomes heavily involved with organized crime in New York City.
Jul 22, 2020 · GoodFellas is told from the point of view of Hill, a local Brooklyn gangster and drug dealer who worked as an associate for the Lucchese crime family, one of Brooklyn’s most notorious mafioso ...
Jun 13, 2012 · Henry Hill, an associate in the Luchese organized-crime family whose decision to turn federal informer, and subsequent itinerant life in and out of the federal witness protection program,...
Sep 21, 1990 · Goodfellas: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco. The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Jun 13, 2012 · Henry Hill, a former mobster-turned-FBI informant whose life became the basis for Martin Scorsese's 1990 movie Goodfellas, dies in Los Angeles aged 69.
Jun 13, 2012 · LOS ANGELES — Henry Hill, 69, who went from small-time gangster to big-time celebrity when his life as a mobster-turned-FBI informant became the basis for the Martin Scorsese film “Goodfellas,”...
Jun 13, 2012 · Henry Hill, the mobster whose life became world famous after it was chronicled in the film Goodfellas, has died at a Los Angeles hospital after a long illness.
