NYPD detective turned private eye Bo Dietl is featured in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming mafia movie “The Irishman.”
We hear that Deitl, who appeared in the director’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Goodfellas” and the TV show “Vinyl,” plays real-life Chicago mobster Joseph Glimco and is in six scenes, appearing next to Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran and Al Pacino in the role of Jimmy Hoffa.
“I grew up with all the mob guys in Ozone Park,” Deitl — the self-proclaimed “tough cop” who ran for New York City mayor in 2017 — tells Page Six. “I knew John Gotti, I knew Fat Tony [Anthony Salerno]. So it wasn’t hard for me to play a mob guy, because I knew them all, but I went in a different direction in life. I always told the NYPD I never wanted to work on organized crime because there’s no way I could go to dinner with Fat Tony and slap cuffs on him after dessert.”
The film, which also stars Joe Pesci, will open the New York Film Festival in September.