James Conway
James Jimmy Conway was a fictional character played by Robert De Niro in the film Goodfellas. The character was based directly on the real-life gangster Jimmy Burke. Jimmy Conway is first introduced in a narrarration by Henry Hill at the beginning of the film. He was a close associate of mob caporegime Paul Paulie Cicero (based on Paul Vario). Bein... Show more »
James Jimmy Conway was a fictional character played by Robert De Niro in the film Goodfellas. The character was based directly on the real-life gangster Jimmy Burke. Jimmy Conway is first introduced in a narrarration by Henry Hill at the beginning of the film. He was a close associate of mob caporegime Paul Paulie Cicero (based on Paul Vario). Being of Irish decent, Conway could never become a made man in the Mafia since he is not full-blooded Italian.Jimmy earns his nickname, Jimmy the Gent , and becomes the closest friend and partner-in-crime of Hill, along with sociopathic gangster Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci (based on Tommy DeSimone). He enjoys hijacking trucks on the freeway. Jimmy is present when Billy Batts comes to the bar, mocking Tommy's youthful duties as a shoe-shine boy: Now go home and get your fucking shinebox! Tommy, enraged leaves and returns to the bar with a revolver. Tommy (aided by Conway) beat Batts savagely to a pulp, later burying his body.Jimmy organizes the Lufthansa Heist. He grows paranoid when the associates begin buying exotics with the money. Stacks (based on Parnell Steven Stacks Edwards), is shot multiple times by Tommy in his apartment for not delivering the truck in the right place, Conway also organizes the murder of Morris Morrie Kessler, (based on Martin Krugman), murdered by Tommy in the car for pestering Jimmy over the loot. The bloodied bodies of Johnny Roastbeef (based on Angelo Sepe) and his wife are found in their cadillac, the bodies of Jo Buddah (based on Louis Cafora), and Frenchy (based on Robert McMahon) are found dead to be discovered by sanitation workers, and Frank Frankie Carbone is found frozen in a meat-truck. Soon after, Tommy is supposed to become a made man in the Lucchesse Family, but is instead murdered by the elder members of the Family, Vinnie (based on Thomas Agro) and an unknown mobster, as revenge for killing Billy Batts.Jimmy and Henry are arrested for roughing up a man, but soon released. Henry, after being arrested the second time, this time for drug charges, meets Conway at a diner and considers he and his family are marked for death. Hill enters the Witness Protection Program and testifies against Paulie and Jimmy.Kathy Burke, Jimmy Burke's daughter, allegedly attempted to force the GoodFellas production company to pay $100,000 for permission to use the name 'Burke', so they used Jimmy's mother's maiden name 'Conway' instead. Show less «

James Conway movies list

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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...