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Hoodlum

Film character

Bumpy Johnson

Hoodlum 1997

played by Laurence Fishburne

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The film

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

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The name

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Elsewhere on screen, Bumpy

  1. Secret in Their Eyes
    Bumpy Willis Secret in Their Eyes 2015 played by Dean Norris
  2. Shaft
    Bumpy Jonas Shaft 1971 played by Moses Gunn
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    Bumpy Jonas Shaft's Big Score! 1972 played by Moses Gunn
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