Despite having one of the more common names extant (there's even been another of me at mudcat, althugh I don't think I've seen him post for some time) my only claim to public notoriety appears to have been a rather mediocre actor who played many bit parts as a mobster in multiple B-grade movies in the '40s. His best known "talent" was the ability to flip a quarter in the air repeatedly, and the limit of his versatility appeared in the one movie in which he flipped a half-dollar instead. But to claim even that I have to revert to a "nickname" used within the family to distinguish me from the other three then living with the same (common but never famous) given name.

John