Sorry for my English, but I'm Spanish, and I don't speak it very well. I'd like to add more real life people that it seems to appear in the godfather film as characters.

Jack Woltz. It seems to be Jack Warner, from Warner Bross.

Senator Geary. In real life as Senator from Nevada Patrick A. McCarran from 1933 to 1945 or maybe Barry Goldwater from Arizona.

Archbishop Gilday is based on Paul Marcinkus the head of the Vatican Bank.


Cardinal Lamberto (Pope Paul VI)It seems to be Pope Jonh Paulus I

The character of Frederick Keinszig is loosely based on Roberto Calvi, the head of the Vatican-controlled Banco Ambrosiano that spectacularly collapsed in 1982, causing a large scandal in Italy.

Some say Johnny Ola was based on real life mobster Vincent Alo who was Meyer Lansky's right hand man.