Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has joined spectators at the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.
Duvall, who starred in mob epics The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, sat in the back of the courtroom in Boston.
The 82-year-old added some Hollywood spice to the already high-profile trial of a man prosecutors say terrorised Boston during the 1970s and 1980s as the leader of the city's infamous Winter Hill Gang.
Bulger, 83, is accused of being involved in 19 murders. He is also charged with extorting bookmakers, drug dealers and others running illegal businesses.
Bulger was captured in 2011 after nearly 16 years on the run The trial has already heard the testimony of former Bulger associate and admitted killer, John Martorano, who served 12 years in prison after striking a deal with prosecutors.
The former hitman told jurors he decided to testify against his alleged former "partner in crime" after he learned Bulger had been working as an FBI informant - a revelation that he said "sort of broke his heart".
As Duvall listened in on Friday, a man who survived a shooting allegedly orchestrated by Bulger told jurors it felt like "a firing squad hit us" when a car he was in was peppered by more than 100 bullets.
Frank Capizzi said he was in the back seat behind Albert Plummer when the car was targeted in March 1973. Mr Capizzi was shot several times, while Mr Plummer, a member of a rival gang, was killed.
Mr Capizzi said he soon left Boston out of fear.
Duvall is in Massachusetts this month shooting The Judge. He is playing the title character in the film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr, Billy Bob Thornton and Vincent D'Onofrio.
Duvall played Tom Hagen, a lawyer and adviser to the Corleone family in the award-winning Godfather films, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Duvall won a best actor Oscar in 1984 for his role in Tender Mercies.
Bulger's life has already inspired at least one on-screen character, with Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Frank Costello in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed.
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