- Mafia soldier who helped run Las Vegas for the Chicago mob. Close friend of producer Bryan Foy, who brought him into the movie business as a purchasing agent at Eagle-Lion Studios in 1948. Later Roselli worked as an assistant producer on two films at Robert Kane Productions (Canon City, He Walked By Night). Married actress June Lang. In later years was rumored to have been involved in CIA attempts to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Retired from organized crime to Miami, but in 1976 his body was found stuffed into a 50-gallon drum floating in the ocean. He had been stabbed to death. His killers were never found.
- Is portrayed by Sam Grana in Sugartime (1995)
- Al Capone's last protege.
- Had four siblings, Vincenzo, Alberto, Concerta and Ida Edith along with half-sister Carmela after his mother remarried after his father's death.
- Father died during the Spanish Flu epidemic on 13 October 1918.
- Attended Samuel Adams School in Boston from 1911-16 before transferring in the 7th grade to Austin Prevocational in 1917. He dropped out of school in 1919 at the age of 13 after his father's death.
- Son of Vincenzo Sacco and Maria Antonia DiPasquale. Father died during the Spanish Flu epidemic on 10.13/1918.
- Emigrated to America with his mother, landing at Ellis Island on 9/10/1911. They reunited with his father in Boston.
- In 1933 the Association of Motion Picture Producers named him Assistant for Labor Relations.
- In an attempt to evade implication in the extortion of the Hollywood movie studio unions, he joined the US Army on 12/4/1942 at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, CA. He began his training at Camp Cooke (now Vandenberg Air Force Base) located 150 miles north of Los Angeles before he was assigned to the 81st Armored in Fort McPherson outside Atlanta, GA.
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