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Robert "Bobby" Ciaro (died 30 July 1975) was a union organizer for the Teamsters. Ciaro was Jimmy Hoffa 's right-hand man, and he was deeply involved with union corruption; Ciaro and Hoffa were both murdered at the roadside diner in Bloomfield Township, Michigan in July 1975.
In 1935, Hoffa boards a parked truck where he meets driver Bobby Ciaro. Hoffa pitches the benefits of joining the Teamsters and gives Ciaro a business card, on which he has written: "Give this man whatever he needs".
DeVito himself plays Jimmy’s fictional lieutenant Bobby Ciaro, recruited from a loading dock in 1935 and inseparable from his boss ever since. Hoffa was released a year after Oliver Stone’s JFK and within weeks of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, a trio of “would-be interventions” into the cultural chat, per Sight & Sound at the time.
Jan 3, 2020 · And in the 1992 film “Hoffa,” Danny DeVito played Mr. Hoffa’s sidekick, Bobby Ciaro, a composite character based largely on Chuckie.
Jun 23, 2023 · Hoffa associate Bobby Ciaro (a fictionalized character played by DeVito) tells a Teamster trucker credited only as Young Kid (Frank Whaley), who is grateful to him for helping him, to go thank Hoffa instead.
Dec 25, 1992 · Though the film opens in the 1970s, with the union leader and close (albeit fictional) associate Bobby Ciaro (DeVito) waiting for a meeting in a restaurant parking lot, the story soon shifts...
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Nov 28, 2016 · Hoffa was a Teamsters union organizer who was working to organize the various trucking firms and laundries around Detroit, Michigan. He met a young truck driver named Robert “Bobby” Ciaro. Riding over an hour in Ciaro’s truck, Hoffa tried to convince Ciaro to join the Teamsters.
