Henry Hill, a former mobster-turned-FBI informant whose life inspired Martin Scorsese's 1990 crime classic "Goodfellas," died on Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital after a long-running battle with an ...

Goodfellas earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, and Best Adapted Screenplay for ...

Hill began his life of crime at the age of 11 while running errans in East New York for Paul Vario, a captain in the Lucchese family. His first major robbery came in 1967 when he orchestrated the ...

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Goodfellas is hailed by many as the pinnacle of cinema, a towering achievement in film-making and a cornerstone of the gangster genre. Martin Scorsese's iconic film chronicles the life of Henry Hill, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Henry Hill spent much of his life as a "goodfella," believing his last moment would come with a bullet to the back of his head. In the end he died at a hospital after a long illness ...