Hyman Roth Quotes and Sound Clips

Hyman Roth is a fictional character, and the primary antagonist in The Godfather Part II, played by the actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role (which he lost to his co-star, Robert De Niro, for the same film). Hyman Roth is based on mobster Meyer Lansky. Roth, whose birth name is Hyman Suchowsky, first meets Vito Corleone when the latter hires him to fix a car in 1917. When Vito suggests he change his name, he chooses the name Hyman Roth in honor of Arnold Rothstein. (That scene was deleted from the theatrical release, in which he was played by John Megna.) In the theatrical release he can be seen with the curly-haired young man outside Genco headquarters as the company’s sign is being put into place. Later he is depicted as a boss of the Jewish mob and has long been an associate of the Corleone family, though he is not mentioned in the first film or in the book on which it is based. Much like Vito, Roth...