Willie Sutton, also called
Willie the Actor, byname of
William Francis Sutton, Jr., (born June 30, 1901, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. died November 2, 1980, Spring Hill, Florida), celebrated American bank robber and prison escapee who earned his nickname “the Actor” because of his talent for disguises, posing as guard, messenger, policeman, diplomat, or window cleaner to fool authorities.
Raised in a tough Irish-American district in Brooklyn, he was a veteran thief and hoodlum by the time that he was a teenager and, at the age of 21, was arrested and acquitted on a murder charge. After a prison term for safecracking (1926–27), he engaged in bank and store robberies. In 1930 in Manhattan, he robbed his first bank, and a jeweler as well, while disguised as a Western Union messenger. Two months and other robberies later, he was caught and sentenced to Sing Sing prison. In 1932 he escaped, moved to Philadelphia, was caught again in a robbery, and spent the next 15 years in Pennsy
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