In Popular Culture
Frank Nitti has been portrayed numerous times in television and motion pictures:
- by Bruce Gordon in many episodes of the original ABC television series The Untouchables, based on Eliot Ness' memoirs, which ran from 1959 to 1963.
- by Harold J. Stone in the 1967 Roger Corman film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
- by Sylvester Stallone in the 1975 film Capone.
- by Billy Drago, playing a fictionalised version of Nitti in the 1987 film, The Untouchables. In the film, Nitti is thrown off a Chicago courthouse roof by Ness (Kevin Costner), an event which never happened in real life.
- by Anthony LaPaglia in the 1988 biopic Nitti: The Enforcer
- by Paul Regina in the 1993 TV show The Untouchables.
- by Stanley Tucci in the 2002 film Road to Perdition.
- by Bill Camp in the 2009 film Public Enemies.
Antero Niittymäki has used an image of Nitti on his helmet due to the similarity in name.
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