Robert "Bobby" Germaine

Who was Robert "Bobby" Germaine?

Robert "Bobby" Germaine, Sr., the son of French-Canadian immigrants, was a drug trafficker, burglar, and freelance writer in New York, NY. He was friends with Henry Hill and involved in his criminal activities following the Lufthansa heist up to Hill's incarceration. Germaine was also a friend of Jimmy Burke.

He was an excellent stick-up man and burglar who Henry Hill met in Fort Leavenworth in 1972. Robert had been married and gave birth to one son, a chemistry salesman and small-time drug dealer, Robert Germaine, Jr. His son would later become the confidential informant that led to the arrest of Henry Hill and subsequently his own father. At the time of his drug trafficking arrest he had been an unsuccessful self-proclaimed freelance writer working on a manuscript. He is portrayed in Goodfellas as the uncredited drug dealer played by Paul Herman.