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Hugh Costello is an Irish writer. Career. Costello made his name in radio (including The Guest At St Peters, Bail Out, My Dear Children Of The Whole World, What The Bishops Knew and Conclave) and television (credits include The Ambassador, Holby City and On Home Ground ).
I'm an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, audio dramatist and producer. Also a print journalist and documentary producer. My latest documentary, What Kind of Scotland?, went out on BBC Radio 4 on 1...
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- January 1, 1991
- Self-employed
- London, England, United Kingdom
The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and created by Hugh Costello. The series starred Pauline Collins in the title role as Harriet Smith, the new British ambassador to Ireland and dealt with the personal and professional pressures in her life, as well as wider political themes.
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- Criminal Career
- Retirement and Death
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Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on January 26, 1891, in Lauropoli, a frazione of the town of Cassano allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region, Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his mother and his brother Edward to join their father, who had moved to New York City's East Harlemseveral years earlier...
Alliance with Luciano
While working for the Morello gang, Costello met Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, the Sicilian leader of Manhattan's Lower East Side gang. The two Italians immediately became friends and partners. Several older members of Luciano's mob family disapproved of this growing partnership. They were mostly old-school mafiosi who were unwilling to work with anyone who was not Italian, and skeptical at best about working with non-Sicilians. To Luciano's shock, they warned him against working with Costello, wh...
Castellammarese War
In early 1931, the Castellammarese War broke out between Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. In a secret deal with Maranzano, Luciano agreed to engineer the death of his boss, Masseria, in return for receiving Masseria's rackets and becoming Maranzano's second-in-command. On April 15, 1931, Luciano had lured Masseria to a meeting where he was murdered at a restaurant called Nuova Villa Tammaro on Coney Island. While they played cards, Luciano allegedly excused himself to the bathroom, with the...
Years as consigliere
In 1931, after the Masseria and Maranzano murders, Luciano became the leader of the new Luciano crime family, with Genovese as underboss and Costello as consigliere. Costello quickly became one of the biggest earners for the Luciano family and began to carve his own niche in the underworld. He controlled the slot machine and bookmaking operations for the family with associate Philip "Dandy Phil" Kastel. Costello placed approximately 25,000 slot machines in bars, restaurants, cafes, drugstores...
During his retirement, Costello was still known as "The Prime Minister of the Underworld". He still retained power and influence in New York's Mafia and remained busy throughout his final years. Cosa Nostra bosses and old associates such as Gambino and Lucchese still paid visits to Costello at his Waldorf Astoria penthouse, seeking advice on import...
Costello has been portrayed in several movies, including by actors Feodor Chaliapin Jr. in My Brother Anastasia (1973), James Andronica in Gangster Wars (1981), Carmine Caridi in Bugsy (1991), Cost...Costello was referenced in the Allen Ginsberg poem "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox". The line is written: 'It had to be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover / and Frank Costello syndicate mouthpiece / meetin...The film The Departed features an Irish mob boss named Frank Costello (played by Jack Nicholson) in present-day Boston. Nicholson's character is related to the real-life Costello in name only; the...Costello was portrayed by Anthony DiCarlo in AMC's docudrama series The Making of the Mob: New York.Brennan, Bill (1962). The Frank Costello Story. Derby, CT: Monarch Books.Katz, Leonard (1973). Uncle Frank: The Biography of Frank Costello. New York: Drake Publishers. ISBN 0-87749-549-1. LCCN 73-5943.Wolf, George (1974). Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld. New York: William Morrow & Company. ISBN 0688-00256-0. LCCN 74-1128.Raab, Selwyn. (2006). Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-30094-8.Works by or about Frank Costello at Internet ArchiveFrank Costello at Rotten.comHugh Costello – Weiterführende Links. Wikipedia Englisch; teilen
10. Aug. 2017 · Greta Scacchi stars in Hugh Costello's political thriller of secrets and lies.
Filme: Bernard und Doris. Bei Crew United gespeicherte Filme. Jahr Titel Sparte Tätigkeit Anmerkung; 2005: Bernard und Doris
