Heute ist er mit seinem Unternehmen Abagnale & Associates vor allem in Sachen Scheckbetrug und Dokumentenfälschung als Berater diverser Banken, Fluglinien, Hotels und anderer Unternehmen tätig. The trailer for "Catch Me If You Can" is so obvious it could have written itself. The real Carl Hanratty is a composite of a number of FBI agents who worked to catch Abagnale, most notably FBI Agent Joseph Shea. Catch Me If You Can did win one Tony Award, though, for Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty. Special Agent Shea was the head of the FBI investigative team chasing after Frank and had spent several years looking for him.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrayal of teenage con-man Frank Abagnale Jr. is fun and entertaining. Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson.The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Nathalie Baye in supporting roles.
Special Agent Shea was the head of the FBI investigative team chasing after Frank and had spent several years looking for him. DiCaprio comments, “Carl Hanratty eventually becomes the only person who Frank Abagnale trusts, which is ironic given the fact that Carl is the … Sean O'Reilly or aka Carl Hanratty Known in Real Life as Joe Shea, Frank Abagnale Jr. gave him different names so that he could protect his identity in the FBI. The person who seems to know Frank best is Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), a detective who is trying to capture and arrest him. Frank William Abagnale Jr. (* 27.April 1948 in Bronxville, New York) ist ein ehemaliger, gegen Ende der 1960er bis Anfang der 1970er Jahre aktiver US-amerikanischer Hochstapler und Scheckbetrüger. Says Abagnale: “What landed me in jail was my other habit, which was my enthusiasm for passing bad checks. Carl figures out that underneath Frank's veneers is a lonely young man, a revelation that both angers and compels Frank.
In real life, Shea pursued career criminal Frank Abagnale (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) in the late 1960s for forging checks and impersonating others. It informs us that Frank Abagnale Jr. practiced medicine without attending medical school, practiced law without a law degree and passed as a pilot without attending flight school--all for the excellent reason that he did all of these things before he was 19, and had not even graduated from high school. Was the FBI Agent Carl Hanratty a real person? But, the main antagonist Joe Shea passed away on August 4, 2005 in Marietta, Georgia. He is a FBI bank fraud agent who prosecutes Frank everywhere he commits his crimes. Kari Hanratty handled my case with sensitivity and yet was tough and confident in court.

According to Frank Abagnale, his deep friendship with Shea, as portrayed in the film, lasted 30 years until Shea's death. In real life, Shea pursued career criminal Frank Abagnale (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) in the late 1960s for forging checks and impersonating others. Scene 3 — 17:40. Thanks to her I had a new start in life with the resources I needed to take care of myself and my children.