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    Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish American mob boss and prohibition-era Chicago bootlegger. He is best remembered for...
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    kidnapping of Chicago mobster Jake "the Barber" Factor, a crime for which Roger Touhy and he were eventually proven innocent after nearly 20 years in prison...
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  • Roger Touhy, Gangster is a 1944 American gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy, directed by film noir specialist Robert Florey...
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  • Touhy may refer to: John Touhy (1919–1983), American politician Patrick L. Touhy (1839–1911), American businessman Roger Touhy (1898–1959), Irish American...
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  • Toohy (1926–1999), Canadian Football League player Roger Touhy (1898–1959) and his brother Tommy Touhy, American gangsters in Chicago "Abdul the Terrible"...
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    friends near Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The man convicted of kidnapping him, Roger Touhy, claimed Factor faked his own kidnapping to avoid extradition to the...
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    The Informer (1935), Geronimo (1939), My Friend Flicka (1943), and Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944). Over the years, as Foster's film experience in Hollywood...
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  • Tong leader Vincent Drucci (Victor D'Ambrosio), Chicago North Side Gang Roger Touhy, Chicago Prohibition gangster Hymie Weiss (Earl Wajciechowsky), Chicago...
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    Forever and a Day (1943), and had a support role in Tampico (1943) and Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944). McLaglen was a villain in Bob Hope's The Princess and...
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    enforcement, framed local Irish mob boss and Outfit mortal enemy Roger Touhy for the kidnapping. Touhy was tried for the kidnapping. The jury in the first trial...
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