Willie Sutton - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Actor Jay Novello portrayed Willie Sutton in "The Case of Willie Sutton", a 1952 episode of the TV-series Gang Busters.

A reference to Willie Sutton's apocryphal quote is made in The Distinguished Gentleman, a 1992 comedy starring Eddie Murphy.

Sutton's life is the subject of a 2011 documentary film In the Footsteps of Willie Sutton.

The life of Willie Sutton is portrayed in the 2012 novel Sutton by J.R. Moehringer.

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