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- An episode of the Dick Tracy radio show featured Flattop. Titled Flattop, this broadcast is now available for free from archive.org.
- In an episode of the early TV series starring Ralph Byrd, John Cliff portrayed Flattop in a half-hour episode based fairly closely on the comic strip story. Rather than giving the actor a flat head, or a haircut that made his head look flat, Cliff wore a large beret that suggested a flat top.
- In the 1990 film adaptation of the comic strip, he is played by William Forsythe. In this adaptation, he was a henchman of the main villain, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (Al Pacino) and is killed during a shootout with Tracy.
- Flattop appears in the Daffy Duck short "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", in which the animators portrayed several mini-aircraft taking off from his head, he is also seen among the dead villains falling out of the closet after Daffy shoots them.
- In The Dick Tracy Show, he was played by Paul Frees and Mel Blanc and was almost always paired up with B.B. Eyes in all his heists.
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