Murder, Inc.

…made his first feature film, Murder, Inc. (1960), though it was completed by producer Burt Balaban when an actors’ strike interrupted filming for several months. The drama, which starred Stuart Whitman and Peter Falk, was a taut account of a real-life gang of killers for hire that flourished in the…

…as a contract killer in Murder, Inc. (1960), and he played the gangster Joy Boy in Frank Capra’s Pocketful of Miracles (1961); he was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for both films. His other movies in the early 1960s included Pressure Point (1962), It’s a Mad,…