Harry Grey

Herschel Goldberg, better known as Harry Grey, was a Russian Jewish-American criminal and writer. His first book, The Hoods (1952), was the model for the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone, where his part was played by Robert De Niro. The memoir—partially factual, and partially fictional—was written when Goldberg was incarcerated at Sing-Sing.