Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Baby Face Nelson

Index Baby Face Nelson

Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), known by the alias George Nelson, better known as Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber in the 1930s. [1]

95 relations: Acquittal, Alcatraz Island, Alvin Karpis, Aurora, Illinois, Baby Face Nelson (film), Bank robbery, Barrington, Illinois, Biograph Theater, Brainerd, Minnesota, Bryan Burrough, C. Thomas Howell, Chevrolet, Chicago, Chicago American, Chicago Outfit, Chicago Tribune, Coupé, Crown Point, Indiana, Dillinger (1973 film), Eddie Bentz, Eddie Green (criminal), Electric chair, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First National Bank of Mason City, Ford Motor Company, Freddie Highmore, Gangster, Genoa, Nevada, Grand Haven, Michigan, Gunshot wound, Hastings, Minnesota, Herman Hollis, Homer Van Meter, Hyman S. Lehman, Illinois, J. Edgar Hoover, James Stewart, John Dillinger, John Hamilton (gangster), John Paul Chase, Johnny Depp, Joliet Correctional Center, Joyride (crime), Kerry Ehrin, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Las Vegas, Life imprisonment, Lincoln Park, Chicago, List of Depression-era outlaws, Little Bohemia Lodge, ..., Louis Piquett, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, Mason City, Iowa, Melvin Purvis, Michael Badalucco, Mickey Rooney, Mug shot, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ojibwe, Pretty Boy Floyd, Public Enemies (2009 film), Public enemy, Reno, Nevada, Richard Dreyfuss, River Grove, Illinois, Robbery, Roger Touhy, Sacramento, California, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Samuel P. Cowley, San Antonio, San Francisco Bay Area, Sausalito, California, Shootout, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Skokie, Illinois, South Bend, Indiana, St. Joseph Cemetery (River Grove, Illinois), Standard Oil, Stephen Graham, Summit, Illinois, Thanksgiving, The Battle of Barrington, The FBI Story, The Kansas City Massacre, The New York Times, Time (magazine), Tommy Carroll (criminal), V8 engine, Walter Walsh, Waterloo, Iowa, William Edward Phipps, William Hale Thompson, Wilmette, Illinois, Winchester Model 1907. Expand index (45 more) »

Acquittal

In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal certifies that the accused is free from the charge of an offense, as far as the criminal law is concerned.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Acquittal · See more »

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Alcatraz Island · See more »

Alvin Karpis

Alvin Francis Karpis (born Albin Francis Karpavičius; August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), a Depression-era gangster nicknamed "Creepy" for his sinister smile and called "Ray" by his gang members, was a Canadian-born (naturalized American) criminal of Lithuanian descent known for being a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang in the 1930s.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Alvin Karpis · See more »

Aurora, Illinois

Aurora, a suburb of Chicago, is a city predominantly in Kane County and DuPage County, with portions extending into Kendall and Will counties.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Aurora, Illinois · See more »

Baby Face Nelson (film)

Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 film noir crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring—who also wrote the screenplay for Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers—and starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam and John Hoyt.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Baby Face Nelson (film) · See more »

Bank robbery

Bank robbery is the crime of stealing money from a bank, while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Bank robbery · See more »

Barrington, Illinois

Barrington is an affluent suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Barrington, Illinois · See more »

Biograph Theater

The Biograph Theater, at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, near Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Biograph Theater · See more »

Brainerd, Minnesota

Brainerd is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Brainerd, Minnesota · See more »

Bryan Burrough

Bryan Burrough (born August 13, 1961 in Tennessee) is an American author and correspondent for Vanity Fair.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Bryan Burrough · See more »

C. Thomas Howell

Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), known as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and director.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and C. Thomas Howell · See more »

Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Chevrolet · See more »

Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Chicago · See more »

Chicago American

The Chicago American was an afternoon newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois under various names until 1974.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Chicago American · See more »

Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, or The Organization) is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, which dates back to the 1910s.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Chicago Outfit · See more »

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Chicago Tribune · See more »

Coupé

A coupé — also known as coupe — is a car with a fixed-roof body style usually with two doors, however some four-door cars have been marketed as four door coupés or quad coupés due to their coupé-like roofline at the rear.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Coupé · See more »

Crown Point, Indiana

Crown Point is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Indiana, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Crown Point, Indiana · See more »

Dillinger (1973 film)

Dillinger is a 1973 American gangster film about the life and criminal exploits of notorious bank robber John Dillinger.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Dillinger (1973 film) · See more »

Eddie Bentz

Edward Wilhelm Bentz (June 2, 1894 – October 31, 1979) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Eddie Bentz · See more »

Eddie Green (criminal)

Harold Eugene "Eddie" Green (November 2, 1898 – April 10, 1934) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw during the 1930s, best known as a member of the John Dillinger gang.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Eddie Green (criminal) · See more »

Electric chair

Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a method of execution originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Electric chair · See more »

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Federal Bureau of Investigation · See more »

First National Bank of Mason City

The First National Bank of Mason City, also known as Norwest Bank Building and City Center of Mason City, is a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and First National Bank of Mason City · See more »

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Ford Motor Company · See more »

Freddie Highmore

Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English actor.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Freddie Highmore · See more »

Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Gangster · See more »

Genoa, Nevada

Genoa is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Genoa, Nevada · See more »

Grand Haven, Michigan

Grand Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Ottawa County.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Grand Haven, Michigan · See more »

Gunshot wound

A gunshot wound (GSW), also known as ballistic trauma, is a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Gunshot wound · See more »

Hastings, Minnesota

Hastings is a city in Dakota and Washington counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, near the confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Hastings, Minnesota · See more »

Herman Hollis

Herman Edward "Ed" Hollis (January 1903 – November 27, 1934) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Herman Hollis · See more »

Homer Van Meter

Homer Virgil Van Meter (December 3, 1905 – August 23, 1934) was an American criminal and bank robber active in the early 20th century, most notably as a criminal associate of John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter · See more »

Hyman S. Lehman

Hyman S. Lebman aka Hyman S. Lehman or Hymie Lebman (1903–1990) was a San Antonio, Texas, gunsmith and leather worker.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Hyman S. Lehman · See more »

Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Illinois · See more »

J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and J. Edgar Hoover · See more »

James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and James Stewart · See more »

John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster in the Depression-era United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger · See more »

John Hamilton (gangster)

John "Red" Hamilton (27 January 1899 – April 26, 1934) was a Canadian criminal and bank robber active in the mid 20th century, most notably as an associate of John Dillinger.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and John Hamilton (gangster) · See more »

John Paul Chase

John Paul Chase (December 26, 1901 – October 5, 1973) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and John Paul Chase · See more »

Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Johnny Depp · See more »

Joliet Correctional Center

Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary and the Collins Street Prison) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, America from 1858 to 2002.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Joliet Correctional Center · See more »

Joyride (crime)

To joyride is to drive around in a stolen vehicle with no particular goal other than the pleasure or thrill of doing so.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Joyride (crime) · See more »

Kerry Ehrin

Kerry Anne Ehrin (born October 8, 1960) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, and producer.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Kerry Ehrin · See more »

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Lake Geneva is a city in Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin · See more »

Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Las Vegas · See more »

Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Life imprisonment · See more »

Lincoln Park, Chicago

Lincoln Park is a designated community area in North Side, Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Lincoln Park, Chicago · See more »

List of Depression-era outlaws

This is a list of the Great Depression-era outlaws spanning the years of Prohibition and the Great Depression known as the "Public Enemy" era.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and List of Depression-era outlaws · See more »

Little Bohemia Lodge

Little Bohemia Lodge is a rural vacation lodge and restaurant located off US Highway 51 in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Little Bohemia Lodge · See more »

Louis Piquett

Louis Piquett (before 1915 - December 12, 1951) was an American lawyer notable for defending John Dillinger.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Louis Piquett · See more »

Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin

Manitowish Waters is a town in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin · See more »

Mason City, Iowa

Mason City is a city in and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Mason City, Iowa · See more »

Melvin Purvis

Melvin Horace Purvis II. (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Melvin Purvis · See more »

Michael Badalucco

Michael Badalucco (born December 20, 1954) is an American actor, best known for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berlutti on the ABC legal drama television series The Practice.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Michael Badalucco · See more »

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Mickey Rooney · See more »

Mug shot

A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Mug shot · See more »

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and O Brother, Where Art Thou? · See more »

Ojibwe

The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of Indigenous Peoples in North America, which is referred to by many of its Indigenous peoples as Turtle Island.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Ojibwe · See more »

Pretty Boy Floyd

Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd · See more »

Public Enemies (2009 film)

Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical mob drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Public Enemies (2009 film) · See more »

Public enemy

Public enemy is a term which was first widely used in the United States in the 1930s to describe individuals whose activities were seen as criminal and extremely damaging to society, though the phrase had been used for centuries to describe pirates and similar outlaws.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Public enemy · See more »

Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Reno, Nevada · See more »

Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (né Dreyfus; born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in popular films during the 1970s through 1990s, including American Graffiti, Jaws, Stand by Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, Always, and Mr. Holland's Opus.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Richard Dreyfuss · See more »

River Grove, Illinois

River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and River Grove, Illinois · See more »

Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Robbery · See more »

Roger Touhy

Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Roger Touhy · See more »

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Sacramento, California · See more »

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Saint Paul, Minnesota · See more »

Samuel P. Cowley

Samuel Parkinson Cowley (July 23, 1899 – November 27, 1934) was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was killed in the line of duty in a gunfight with Baby Face Nelson in 1934 on Route 14 in Barrington, Illinois.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Samuel P. Cowley · See more »

San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and San Antonio · See more »

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and San Francisco Bay Area · See more »

Sausalito, California

Sausalito is a city in Marin County, California, located south-southeast of San Rafael, 4 miles (7 km) north of San Francisco.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Sausalito, California · See more »

Shootout

A shootout, also called a firefight or gunfight, is a gun battle between armed groups.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Shootout · See more »

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe; "Stone Shatter City") is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 145th-most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Sioux Falls, South Dakota · See more »

Skokie, Illinois

Skokie (formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Skokie, Illinois · See more »

South Bend, Indiana

South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and South Bend, Indiana · See more »

St. Joseph Cemetery (River Grove, Illinois)

St.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and St. Joseph Cemetery (River Grove, Illinois) · See more »

Standard Oil

Standard Oil Co.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Standard Oil · See more »

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English film and television actor, known for his roles as Tommy in the film Snatch (2000), Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in This Is England (2006) as well as its television sequels, This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015), notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (2009), Scrum in the Pirates of the Caribbean films and Al Capone in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Stephen Graham · See more »

Summit, Illinois

Summit (or Summit-Argo) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Summit, Illinois · See more »

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, the United States, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Thanksgiving · See more »

The Battle of Barrington

The Battle of Barrington was an intense and deadly gunfight between federal agents and notorious Great Depression Era gangster, Baby Face Nelson, that took place on November 27, 1934 in the town of Barrington, outside Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and The Battle of Barrington · See more »

The FBI Story

The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film starring James Stewart, and produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and The FBI Story · See more »

The Kansas City Massacre

The Kansas City Massacre is a 1975 American television film about Melvin Purvis.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and The Kansas City Massacre · See more »

The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and The New York Times · See more »

Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Time (magazine) · See more »

Tommy Carroll (criminal)

Thomas Leonard "Tommy" Carroll (November 28, 1900 – June 7, 1934) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Tommy Carroll (criminal) · See more »

V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V configuration engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets (or banks) of four, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and V8 engine · See more »

Walter Walsh

Colonel Walter Rudolph Walsh (May 4, 1907 – April 29, 2014) was an FBI agent, USMC shooting instructor and Olympic shooter.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Walter Walsh · See more »

Waterloo, Iowa

Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Waterloo, Iowa · See more »

William Edward Phipps

William Edward Phipps (February 4, 1922 – June 1, 2018) was an American actor and producer, perhaps best known for his roles in dozens of classic sci-fi and westerns, both in films and on television.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and William Edward Phipps · See more »

William Hale Thompson

William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician, mayor of Chicago for three terms, from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and William Hale Thompson · See more »

Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Wilmette, Illinois · See more »

Winchester Model 1907

The Winchester Model 1907 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1906 with production ending in 1958.

New!!: Baby Face Nelson and Winchester Model 1907 · See more »

Redirects here:

Baby-Face George Nelson, Babyface Nelson, Babyface nelson, George "Baby Face" Nelson, Joseph Lester Gillis, Lester Gillis, Lester M. Gillis, Lester Nelson.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_Nelson

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »