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475   7.3   7.7 

Criminal: Jesse James - outlaw
Actor: Brad Pitt


Jesse James was one of the most famous men in America during his time, kind of like Brad Pitt today only with a lengthy criminal record and no Angelina.

47   7   7.9 

Criminal: Robert Stroud - convicted killer/bird enthusiast
Actor: Burt Lancaster


Stroud wasn't actually allowed to keep birds in Alcatraz. He did all of his bird tending and research at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.

395   7.7   8.1 

Criminals: Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - bank robbers
Actors: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway


The ending to Arthur Penn's masterpiece was groundbreaking in its depiction of on-screen violence, but it was tame compared to the actual deaths of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow whose car was raked by 187 bullets.

74   6.2   6.8 

Criminal: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel - gangster
Actor: Warren Beatty


Bugsy Siegel might have been the first person to build a hotel in Vegas, but what he really wanted was to be a star. He reportedly even had a screen test filmed.

383   7.8   8.2 

Criminal: Robert Leroy Parker (AKA Butch Cassidy) - outlaw
Actor: Paul Newman


Butch Cassidy's sister would frequently visit the set during filming and regale cast and crew with her brother's wild adventures.

75   5.5   5.5 

Criminal: Mark David Chapman - John Lennon's killer
Actor: Jared Leto


In order to gain sixty-seven pounds for the role, Jared Leto reportedly microwaved pints of chocolate ice cream and drank it mixed with olive oil and soy sauce.

1117   8.3   8.8 

Criminal: Henry Hill - gangster
Actor: Ray Liotta


After Goodfellas came out, Henry Hill was kicked out of the Witness Protection Program because he kept telling everyone his true identity.

52   5.9   6.4 

Criminal: Valerie Solanas - shot Andy Warhol
Actor: Lili Taylor


Lou Reed, who was a friend of Warhol, so disliked Solanas that he refused to allow music from his band The Velvet Underground to be used in the movie.

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434   6.9   8 

Criminal: Lee Harvey Oswald - presidential assassin/possible CIA patsy
Actor: Gary Oldman


Over the course of researching his part for JFK, Gary Oldman came to believe that Oswald was not, in fact, the lone gunman in Kennedy's assassination.

8   5.5   5.5 

Criminal: Charles "Lucky" Luciano - boss of the Genovese crime family
Actor: Christian Slater


Lucky Luciano modernized the mob, funded the casinos in Vegas and Havana and gave the US government intelligence during WWII. He was such a big figure in the crime world that he was dubbed by Time magazine as being one of the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century.

517   6.9   7.4 

Criminal: Aileen Wuornos - serial killer
Actor: Charlize Theron


Charlize Theron won an Oscar for her part as Aileen Wuornos in Monster on February 29, the executed killer's birthday.

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Criminal: Patricia Hearst - socialite/bank robber
Actor: Natasha Richardson


After her prison sentence for bank robbery was commuted by Jimmy Carter, Patty Hearst went on to land parts in numerous John Waters movies along with appearing in several TV shows.

417   7.1   7.3 

Criminal: John Dillinger - bank robber
Actor: Johnny Depp


During production, Johnny Depp got a chance to wear the pair of pants Dillinger wore the day he was gunned down by the Feds. They reportedly fit him exactly.

31   7.1   7.2 

Criminal: Claus von Bulow - the British O.J.
Actor: Jeremy Irons


One of the numerous Harvard Law students who assisted Alan Dershowitz in his successful defense of British aristocrat and accused murderer Claus von Bulow was none other than CNBC personality Jim Cramer, who later wrote that von Bulow was "supremely guilty".

723   7.6   8 

Criminal: Al Capone - Chicago mob boss
Actor: Robert De Niro


Robert De Niro prepared so thoroughly for the role of Chicago's most notorious gangster that he not only gained forty pounds but he also insisted on wearing underwear from that era throughout the production.

232   6.2   6.6 

Criminal: William "Billy the Kid" Bonney - cattle rustler/outlaw
Actor: Emilio Estevez


Though legend has it that Billy the Kid killed up to twenty people during his brief run as a fugitive gunslinger, in reality he probably only managed to kill four.