As Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman arrives on Netflix, it’s a good time to explain who the real-life gangsters were. Expand. Outside Umberto’s Clam House after Vincent ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo swNOF. The film is based on a book by ‎Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses," which details interviews and confessions that Sheeran once reportedly made to Brandt before he died. Scorsese and De One of Frank’s first-seen kills in The Irishman is an older gangster named Whispers (played by Paul Herman), and it’s based on a true event, in which Frank was almost trapped in a retaliation

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