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Minnesota Fats
George Hegerman
is a fictional
pool hustler
, better known by the nickname "
Minnesota Fats
", featured as a prominent character in
Walter Tevis
' novels
The Hustler
(1959) and
The Color of Money
(1986). Actor
Jackie Gleason
was nominated for an
Academy Award
and a
Golden Globe Award
for Best Supporting Actor, and honored as Best Supporting Actor by the
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
, for portraying the character in the
film adaptation of The Hustler (1961)
. The Minnesota Fats character did not appear in the film version of
The Color of Money
(1986), which had an entirely different storyline from the novel.
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