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Nicholas Pileggi is an American author and screenwriter who wrote Wiseguy and co-wrote Goodfellas and Casino with Martin Scorsese. He also worked as a journalist and produced several films and TV shows about organized crime.
Nicholas Pileggi is a writer and producer of crime-based movies and TV shows, such as Goodfellas, Casino, and The Irishman. He was born in New York in 1933 and worked as a journalist for Associated Press and New York magazine.
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Nicholas Pileggi is best known for writing the book Wiseguy, which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and for writing the book and screenplay Casino. The movie versions of both were co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 film City Hall.
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Nicholas Pileggi is a crime journalist and screenwriter who wrote the books and scripts for Goodfellas, Casino and City Hall. He was born in New York in 1933 and married to Nora Ephron until her death in 2012.
- February 22, 1933
Jan 20, 2017 · Nicholas Pileggi wrote Wiseguy, the book that inspired Martin Scorsese's masterpiece of a gangster movie. He tells the story of Henry Hill, a small-time Mafioso who became a witness for the government.
Mar 11, 2020 · Nick Pileggi is the author and screenwriter of Goodfellas and Casino, two classic films based on his books about real-life mobsters. Learn how he became a journalist, interviewed Henry Hill and Frank Rosenthal, and worked with Martin Scorsese.
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Sep 27, 2011 · Wiseguy author Nicholas Pileggi shares the back story on Henry Hill — the central figure in the sensational mob tale that became the film GoodFellas.
