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Francis Costello

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Francis "Frank" Costello was brush Irish English mob pol and say publicly main competition of description 2006 talkie The Departed. Costello plays the character of dad figure defy Colin Designer and Hegoat Costigan.

He was depicted by Diddley Nicholson.

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Early life come to rest mafia[]

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Against the Grain

The raspy voice that Marlon Brand employed in  his portrayal of  Don   Vito Corleone in  “The Godfather”   was said to have been the result of his study of the tapes of crime boss Frank Costello, who suffered from several different  throat ailments, testimony before a  congressional committee in 1951  that heard testimony  from him and several other organized crime figures in the U. S.  Costello’s   story is told in the recently published “Top Hoodlum,” which takes its title from J. Edgar Hoover’s one time designation of Costello. And the gangster was often  described in the post war era as “The prime minister  of the Underworld”  due to his ability to peacefully settle disputed between the five Mafia families of  New York City and their counterparts in other parts of the nation. Yet as  Destefano’s research makes clear, that title did not do him justice, since his   influence extended throughout New York and other parts of the nation, and   he attended the Democratic  National Convention that nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Costello, who had interests in numerous popular nightclubs in New York City, was said to have helped some attorneys obtain coveted judgeships  and was often seen at those places dining with a variety of celeb

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He survived an assassination attempt, valued brains over brawn, enjoyed a long marriage and adored gardening. As fanciful as these biographic details of the fictional Vito Corleone seem – this month marks half a century since the Mafia Don was first portrayed, unforgettably, by Marlon Brando in The Godfather – they are characteristics Mario Puzo’s character (Puzo wrote the book upon which Francis Ford Coppola’s film is based) shared with a real-life mobster, Frank Costello – aka the Prime Minister of the Underworld.

“I don’t think there will ever be another sitting boss who can meet with judges, political bosses and have that kind of unbridled influence… that’s something that happened under Frank Costello for just one era,” said John Miller Jnr, Costello’s godson, a former journalist who now, in a move unlikely to please his late godfather, is Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department.

The man who Mob historians and movie insiders believe was the basis for Don Corleone arrived in New York on a boat from Italy at the age of four. Born 26 January 1891 as Francesco Castiglia in Calabria, he quit school in the fifth grade and worked as a rent collector for a local mobster while his father ran an ailing grocery store. Det