Ridley Scott’s 2007 feature, American Gangster, let Denzel Washington ... Laurence Fishburne played “Bumpy Rhodes,” based on Bumpy Johnson, in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1984 gangster film ...

iconic actor Moses Gunn played a character based on Johnson named Bumpy Jonas. The most recent portrayal of Johnson was as a major character in the movie American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington.

“American Gangster” in Coney Island, Brooklyn in 2006. Lucas, who claimed he was a protege of Harlem drug dealer Bumpy Johnson, released his memoir “Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of ...

Margaret Johnson ... the character Bumpy Jonas in the 1971 cult classic “Shaft.” He was also the inspiration for characters in “The Cotton Club” and “American Gangster.” ...

In 1948, she met and married Bumpy Johnson, the legendary gangster depicted in TV movies American Gangster, Hoodlum and The Cotton Club. In 2004, Mayme Johnson relocated to Philadelphia ...

Even in its overreaching title, “American Gangster” asserts for ... drug kingpin Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (played by an uncredited Clarence Williams III). Bumpy then takes his protege ...

Described as one of Denzel Washington’s best character portrayals, the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas loosely inspired the ...

Taking up about where 1997's Hoodlum left off, American Gangster follows the rise of Frank Lucas, former protégé and chauffeur of Harlem overlord Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of ...

Frank Lucas, the legendary drug kingpin and inspiration for Ridley Scott’s 2007 true crime film “American Gangster,” has ... narcotics prosecutor Sterling Johnson called Lucas’ enterprise ...

A gangster movie ... hand man to Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, the most famous of Harlem gangsters. (So famous that this is his fourth movie reincarnation. Moses Gunn played him in “Shaft ...

UPDATE: He busted the ‘American Gangster.’ Here’s what Richard ... in the drug world after his mentor Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson died in 1968. He began importing pure heroin from ...

Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug kingpin immortalized in Ridley Scott’s 2007 crime film American Gangster ... protégé of sorts to Harlem mob boss Bumpy Johnson, who died of a heart attack in ...