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25 unusual facts about Robert De Niro


Allegra McEvedy

During a spell in the USA, facilitated by being awarded a special visa as ‘an alien with extraordinary ability in the culinary arts’, McEvedy worked at Rubicon and Jardinière in San Francisco, and ran the kitchen at Robert De Niro’s New York restaurant Tribeca Grill (regularly doing 500 covers a night).

Baby sign language

Baby sign language was a plot element in the movie Meet the Fockers, where Jack (Robert De Niro's character) had taught his grandson "Little Jack" sign language.

Charnett Moffett

Charnett has also performed on various movie soundtracks, including acclaimed ensemble cast pictures Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and The Visit (2001), and was a featured soloist for The Score (starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando).

Chicago Fire Department

The Chicago Fire Department cooperated with film director Ron Howard on making the 1991 film Backdraft, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin and Robert De Niro.

Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone is an American biographical action film directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz, stars are Robert De Niro, Édgar Ramírez, Usher and Ellen Barkin.

Hollywood novel

The Love of The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel written by Fitzgerald, but left incomplete before his death about a studio executive Monroe Stahr, and later adapted into The Last Tycoon starring Robert De Niro.

Kevin Aviance

Aviance has appeared in several films, including Flawless starring Robert De Niro and the independent film Punks.

Lawrence Salander

On 6 April 2011, Leigh Morse, the former director of the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was found guilty by a New York jury of one count of scheming to defraud.

Lindsay Deutsch

Lindsay Deutsch's movie credits include the violin sound track in the 2006 movie The Good Shepherd starring Robert De Niro.

Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow

The song also mentions the relationship between the director and actor Robert De Niro, frequently cast in Scorsese's films.

Me Phi Me

From Murfreesboro, Tennessee (southeast of Nashville), Me Phi Me saw many of the songs from ONE featured in international television synchronization, most notable being the opening and closing theme for Robert De Niro's 1993 TriBeCa television drama anthology series on Fox.

Mike McAlary

--source is our article--> He also had a hand in writing the script for the movie Cop Land, starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro.

Miranda Grosvenor

In January 2001, Robert De Niro, one of Miranda's former talkmates, purchased the film rights to the story.

As "Miranda," Walton engaged in late-night telephone conversations with such stars as Billy Joel, Warren Beatty, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Eric Clapton, Michael Apted, Bono, Mike Nichols, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ted Kennedy, Johnny Carson, Art Garfunkel, Peter Gabriel, Robert De Niro, Rush Limbaugh, and Richard Gere, telling them that she was a blonde Tulane University student, wealthy socialite, and international model.

Nevada Gaming Commission

In the 1995 film Casino the commission, at a public hearing, denies a gaming license to Sam Rothstein, a character based on Frank Rosenthal and portrayed by Robert De Niro.

Newhalem, Washington

In the 1993 film version of This Boy's Life, starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, the two places are combined and called "Concrete."

Nitanju Bolade Casel

Her compositions are also included in a children's textbook, World of Music, and The Box, a pilot TV show from Robert De Niro's Tribeca Production Company.

Peugeot 605

In the first chase, three Peugeot 605s are escorting a Citroën XM carrying a mysterious briefcase, where it comes under attack by mercenaries include the character played by Robert De Niro.

Positive K

The same year, Positive K briefly appeared in the Robert De Niro film A Bronx Tale as one of the angry protesters.

Robert De Niro, Sr.

They surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and the actress and famous Berlin dancer Valeska Gert.

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver (1976) was in turn inspired by Bresson's Michel character to create Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro's antihero.

St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral

St. Theodosius is perhaps best known for its appearance in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.

The Real GoodFella

He speaks about phone calls from Robert De Niro, who played Jimmy Burke's character in the film Goodfellas, and his most recent criminal act, the smuggling of drugs through an airport terminal.

Thermal lance

In the movie The Score Nick Wells (played by Robert De Niro) uses a thermal lance to cut a hole in the top of a safe, to avoid the safe's glass relocker device.

Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy

For example, actor Robert De Niro has claimed ownership of all domain names incorporating the text "Tribeca" for domain names with any content related to film festivals.


1982 Toronto International Film Festival

The festival paid tribute to Martin Scorsese, which was attended by Scorsese himself along with Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and Harvey Keitel.

Adam Winkler

As a child, he had small acting parts in movies, including appearing as the son of Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977).

Aden Young

In 2011 Young mimed Australian female indie supergroup Seeker Lover Keeper's hit song "Even Though I'm A Woman" in the music video directed by Natalie Van Dungen, and featured in the Jason Statham/Robert De Niro action film Killer Elite as American techno geek Meyer.

Andrew J. Rausch

Rausch has 17 published books, including Turning Points in Film History (2004), Fifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian (2008), and The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (2010).

Banker to the Poor

For the script of his "Banker to the Poor", written together with the famous Sergio Donati, Amenta was rewarded by Robert De Niro at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam

The plot is inspired from Harold Ramis directed classic black comedy Analyze This (1999) with Robert De Niro playing a mafia don who due to frequent bouts of anxiety attacks gets treated by a famous psychiatrist enacted by the great comedy actor Billy Crystal.

David Belle

Belle has also worked on Babylon A.D. with Vin Diesel, Prince of Persia, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Colombiana with Zoe Saldana, and The Family, with Robert De Niro.

Doha Tribeca Film Festival

Celebrities who attended the Festival in 2010 include Robert De Niro, Salma Hayek Pinnault, Julian Schnabel, Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbas, Yosra, Adel Imam, Mira Nair, Kevin Spacey, Rachid Bouchareb, Basma Hassan, Yasmine Al Massri, and Stephane Rolland.

Drena De Niro

She is the daughter of actress Diahnne Abbott, and adopted daughter of Robert De Niro, whose last name she took upon her mother's marriage to him in 1976.

Jacques Frantz

He is renowned for his voice, which he has leant to many well known actors such as Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, and Nick Nolte.

John D. Hancock

As a feature film director, he is best known for the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

His new film, Hands of Stone (2014), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro).

L.A. Takedown

Heat was made with an ensemble cast including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer.

Larry Hryb

In 1996 Larry had a non-speaking role of a scorekeeper in the guards vs students football scene in the movie Sleepers starring Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro and more.

Lisa Vidal

Vidal has also appeared in number of films, such as Odd Girl Out (2005), Naughty or Nice (2004); Chasing Papi (2003); I Like It Like That (1994); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) and in Night and the City (1992), alongside Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange, directed by Irwin Winkler.

Moishes Steakhouse

In addition to "regular" Montrealers, it has been frequented by a long list of celebrities, politicians and athletes who have included Penélope Cruz, Robert De Niro, Céline Dion, Paul Newman, Sharon Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Rickles.

Postencephalitic parkinsonism

The film Awakenings (starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro) and its respective book based on genuine cases reported by Oliver Sacks deal with sensitive and largely accurate topics relating to this disease.

Rodrigo Cortés

As of September 2012, Cortés most recent film is Red Lights, a film that features performances from Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy.

Ted Kurdyla

In 1984, Kurdyla worked as the production liaison for the New York unit of Once Upon a Time in America, which was directed by Sergio Leone and starred Robert De Niro.

The Five Obstructions

At the Berlinale 2010, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro announced plans to work on a remake of Scorsese's film Taxi Driver.

The Ones

Their debut single, "Flawless" (inspired by the 1999 film which Nashom appeared in, alongside Robert De Niro), first released on New York Based A Touch Of Class Recordings, was popular among New York DJs even before its official release and became a hit, especially in Europe.

Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy

Founded in 2007 as Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, the college entered a 50/50 partnership with Tribeca Enterprises, the company established by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff best known for producing the Tribeca Film Festival, in April 2010.

Trilby Glover

Trilby Glover is an Australian actress known for her roles as Shoshanna in The Starter Wife mini-series opposite Debra Messing and Jessica in the feature film Righteous Kill with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Zeroville

Appropriately, many actors, writers, and directors popular in the 1970's make appearances, including Robert De Niro, John Milius, Margot Kidder, Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, Paul Schrader, Luciano Damiani, Brian De Palma, and the ghost of Montgomery Clift.