The ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed Liotta was a perfect Henry Hill, narrating a tale of his growth into the organized-crime gang that pulled off the famous Lufthansa heist at New York’s John F. Kevin Costner On Ray Liotta’s Batting Practice As Shoeless Joe In ‘Field Of Dreams’: “God Gave Us That Stunt”

Liotta then quickly followed playing gangster Henry Hill in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, opposite Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in what was to be the defining role of his career. He had his “Who’s thar?” turn in the Jonathan Demme-directed Something Wild (1987), scoring a Golden Globe nomination, and then played banned Chicago White Sox superstar Shoeless Joe Jackson opposite Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones in 1989’s Field of Dreams. Liotta in ‘Field of Dreams’ Everett Collection Ray Liotta’s Screen Career: A Photo GalleryĪmong his earliest screen roles playing nice guy Joey Perrini on the popular NBC soap Another World from 1978-81. Liotta won a Primetime Emmy in 2005 for his guest stint on ER and was a two-time SAG Award nominee for the 2015 miniseries Texas Rising and 1998 telefilm The Rat Pack, in which he starred as Frank Sinatra opposite Don Cheadle, Joe Mantegna and Angus Macfayden. While better known for his big-screen roles, Liotta also starred with Taron Egerton in the Apple TV+ series Black Bird, recurred on Prime Video’s Hanna, fronted the 2006 CBS crime drama Smith and starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in the 2016-18 NBC police drama Shades of Blue. He also recently was set to executive produce the A&E docuseries Five Families, about the dramatic rise and fall of the New York’s mafia’s Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese families. Now Bo Dietl tells what it's really like inside the raw and deadly world of a big-city cop - and how one man became a legend from the station house to the streets.‘Sopranos’ Boss David Chase On His ‘Many Saints Of Newark’ Star Ray Liotta: “We All Felt We Lucked Out Having Him On That Movie” The Bo Dietl Story From his rookie days to the dangerous work on the police decoy unit to his moonlighting as a bodyguard for Arab sheiks, this is the true story of the maverick cop who made the busts, the headlines and the controversies. als and awards, and countless brushes with death, he broke the city's most notorious case - the Harlem convent rape - and faced a blue wall of police department resentments and politics. In fifteen years he made over 1,400 felony arrests compared to the average cop's career total of 180. In an age of rampant corruption and violence, Richard Bo Dietl was the strongest cop on New York's meanest streets - and he did things his way, no holds barred.

One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Dietl, Bo Cross, Ken Introduction by Pileggi, Nicholas

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