Led by Academy Award winner and acting icon Forest Whitaker, the series Godfather of Harlem explores the life of the infamous 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johnson, and features portrayals of ...

Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker unpacks his role as real life crime boss “Bumpy” Johnson for the fourth season of the ...

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Godfather of Harlem is set to make its UK debut this week, with the first three series of the crime drama also set to be made ...

The year is 1964. The show is “Godfather of Harlem.” And the title character mired in this depressingly familiar scenario, portrayed by Forest Whitaker, pushes a man off the roof of a building ...

Godfather of Harlem follows Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson ... involvement with the Black Panthers. "Forest Whitaker's inspired performance as Bumpy Johnson has introduced an iconic, archetypical ...

Forest Whitaker is the sort of star seemingly ... Whitaker finally gets his showcase in “Godfather of Harlem,” a new Epix hourlong series set in the political ferment of the early 1960s.

Forest Whitaker is set to start in the new EPIX original series Godfather of Harlem, which is set to premiere on Sunday, September 29. Godfather of Harlem is the story of legendary crime boss ...

The 10-episode series is coming to Epix this fall. In the teaser trailer below, Bumpy wants his old neighborhood back after time spent in prison. As Swizz Beatz & DMX’s “They Don’t Love Me ...

Forest Whitaker is a father to one son and three daughters, two of whom he welcomed with his late ex-wife Keisha Nash Kevin Mazur/Getty Forest Whitaker may be the godfather of Harlem, but in real ...