In Popular Culture
Vincent Coll has been portrayed in the following films and TV shows:
- Clu Gulager in a 1959 episode Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll of The Untouchables television series.
- Richard Gardner in the 1960 film The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond.
- Joseph Gallison in the 1961 film Portrait of a Mobster.
- Robert Brown in the 1961 two-part episode The Mad Dog Coll Story in the television series The Lawless Years.
- John Davis Chandler in the 1961 film Mad Dog Coll.
- Uncredited actor in the 1972 film The Valachi Papers.
- David Wilson in the 1981 TV series The Gangster Chronicles.
- Nicolas Cage in the 1984 film The Cotton Club, playing a character modelled after Coll.
- Nicholas Sadler in the 1991 film Mobsters.
- Christopher Bradley in the 1992 film Mad Dog Coll and reprised in the 1992 film Hit the Dutchman.
- Ogden Nash mentions Coll in his poem A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor.
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