Rupert Pupkin is never explicitly marked as Jewish, unlike some of the film’s other characters - comedian Jerry Langford, played by Jerry Lewis, and a stalker named Masha, played by Sandra Bernhard - but multiple writers have commented on the character’s Jewishness. Rupert Pupkin in “The King of Comedy” (1982)Īccording to IMDB, Martin Scorsese has called De Niro’s performance as a deranged, aspiring standup comedian the best in any film that they worked on together. Fun fact: The US version of the epic film was a little over two hours long, but the European version was nearly four. “Once Upon a Time in America,” the last film from director Sergio Leone (known primarily for Westerns such as “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) is based on “The Hoods,” a memoir by Harry Grey (born Herschel Goldberg) - a real member of the Jewish mob scene in early to mid-twentieth century New York City. In one of the most famous Jewish gangster films in Hollywood history, De Niro stars as a character nicknamed after a popular chicken soup ingredient.
David “Noodles” Aaronson in “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984)
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