Donald Sutherland's character of Jimmy Burke was also the basis for the character Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas. The role was played in that film by Robert De NIro, with whom Sutherland worked in Backdraft and 1900.
Joe Maruzzo and Rocco Sisto both appeared in The Sopranos (1999)
Tommy Desimone (Rocco Sisto) disappeared on January 14, 1979. He was supposedly tortured and murdered by Thomas Argo under the orders of John Gotti for killing 2 made men in the Gambino family without a sit down . Desimone's body was never found