About 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.