Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film “Raging Bull,” has died. He was 95. The former middleweight ...

'One of the truly great and visionary works of modern cinema' ...

Jake LaMotta, the legendary former world middleweight boxing champion whose wild life and times inspired the Oscar-winning movie "Raging Bull," has died at age 95, his family announced Wednesday.

Professor of English and Director of American Studies Carlo Rotella writes on former world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta--the boxer behind the character portrayed by Robert De Niro in Martin ...

John Turturro landed his first uncredited film role in 1980's Raging Bull. The actor gave a career retrospective as part of the Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation series. He shared the story of ...