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Fictional character from The Godfather series

Fictional character

Don Fanucci is a fictional character appearing in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, a sequel to the 1972 film version of Puzo's novel.

Fanucci is portrayed by Gastone Moschin^[1] and is based on the personality of Ignazio Lupo, a real-life Black Hand figure. While ostensibly Sicilian, Don Fanucci dresses and carries himself in a manner reminiscent of the mostly Neapolitanguappo criminal subculture.^[2]

In the original novel and The Godfather Part II

Fanucci is a notorious Black Handextortionist in Little Italy who supports himself by demanding and collecting protection money from neighborhood businesses.^[3]Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) witnesses Fanucci threatening to disfigure a young girl when her father refuses to pay him and is about to intervene when he is stopped by his friend, Genco Abbandando, who tells him