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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