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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted him for nineteen murders based on the grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former associates. Bulger was the brother of William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate. However adamantly denied by Bulger, the FBI admitted that he served as an informant for several years starting in 1975. He provided information about the inner workings of the Patriarca crime family of Providence, the Italian-American crime group who were his rivals. In return, his corrupt and high-powered FBI handler ensured that his own crime group effectively went ignored. Beginning in 1997, the news media exposed various criminal misconduct by officials tied to Bulger from federal, state, and local law enforcement. This caused great embarrassment to each of these agencies, but none more so than the FBI.
Birth Name
James Joseph Bulger Jr.
Born
Tuesday, 03 September 1929
Died
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Bloody Boston | Self | 2022 |
| My Name Is Bulger | Self | 2021 |
| This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist | Self - Irish Mobster | 2021 |
| The UnXplained | Self - Irish Mobster | 2019 |
| Drain Alcatraz | Self - Alcatraz Inmate | 2017 |
| Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger | Self - Defendant | 2014 |
| Outlaw Empires | Self | 2012 |
| America's Book of Secrets | Self - Irish Mobster | 2012 |
| America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes | Self | 2010 |
| The Irish Mob | Self | 2008 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Bloody Boston | Self | 2022 |
| My Name Is Bulger | Self | 2021 |
| This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist | Self - Irish Mobster | 2021 |
| The UnXplained | Self - Irish Mobster | 2019 |
| Drain Alcatraz | Self - Alcatraz Inmate | 2017 |
| Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger | Self - Defendant | 2014 |
| Outlaw Empires | Self | 2012 |
| America's Book of Secrets | Self - Irish Mobster | 2012 |
| America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes | Self | 2010 |
| The Irish Mob | Self | 2008 |
| America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back | Self | 1988 |
| CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley | Self (segment "Passage") (archive footage) | 1979 |
| 60 Minutes | Himself - Fugitive (segment "The Gaskos") (archive footage) / Himself - Mobster (segment "The FBI and the Mob") (archive footage) / Himself - Fugitive (segment "The Gaskos") (archive footage) (as James 'Whitey' Bulger) | 1968 |
