Raging Bull takes some liberties with the timeline of LaMotta’s story, depicting the already-married middleweight spending his time outside the ring courting his future wife Vikki, portrayed by Cathy Moriarty in her Academy Award-nominated screen debut. Having debuted that March at age 18 when he defeated Charley Makley after four rounds, LaMotta would remain undefeated until his controversial loss to Jimmy Reeves in Cleveland that September. Raging Bull spans nearly a quarter-century in the boxer’s life, beginning with his introduction to professional boxing in 1941. Now considered one of the best movies ever made, Raging Bull was adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from LaMotta’s similarly titled autobiography, inspired by his own nickname “the Bronx Bull”. Today would have been the 100th birthday of Jake LaMotta, the tough middleweight boxer born Jwho was cinematically immortalized by Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning performance in Raging Bull.
Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, ambitious middleweight boxing contenderĬostume Design: John Boxer & Richard Bruno Background
Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980) Vitals
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