James Burke was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, renamed Jimmy Conway. Burke was played by John Mahoney in the 1991 television film The 10 Million Dollar Getaway, which details the events of the Lufthansa Heist. Donald Sutherland also portrayed Burke for the 2001 television film The Big Heist. In 2013, possible human remains were unearthed by the FBI and NYPD organized crime investigators at his former home. In October 2014, Burke's involvement in the Boston College Point Shaving Scandal was discussed in the ESPN 30 for 30 episode "Playing for the Mob." Ray Liotta, who played Henry Hill in Goodfellas, is the narrator of the documentary. References Further reading Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster by T. J. English (2005) On the Run: A Mafia Childhood by Gregg & Gina Hill (2004) Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys...and Life on the Run by Henry Hill & Gus Russo (2005) Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi (1990) Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball by David Porter (2000) Lufthansa Heist by Daniel Simone and Henry Hill (2013) 1931 births 1996 deaths American adoptees American crime bosses American drug traffickers American gangsters of Irish descent American gangsters American people convicted of murder American people who died in prison custody American robbers Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Gangsters from New York City Lucchese crime family Lufthansa heist People convicted of murder by New York (state) People from Brooklyn Prisoners who died in New York (state) detention Vario Crew