Taylor Hackford, who directed Gilroy's script, wanted him for his next movie, "The Devil's Advocate," starring Al Pacino as John Milton, the head of a Manhattan law firm who happens to be Beelzebub.
In all these parts, he brings a brooding quality that Yards director James Gray suggests is evidence of an 'inner Beelzebub'.
Every great sporting saga needs its beelzebub and for the eight decades since Bodyline, the name "Jardine" has figured throughout cricket circles as a handy shorthand for sporting villainy.
But he did nothing publicly to undermine his image as Beelzebub or Mephistopheles or as the man who, by ringing his little bell, could regularly remind Italians where the real power lay.Correction: This obituary originally stated that Mr Andreotti was tried and acquitted of being the Mafia's protector in Rome.
Giving them truly scary names (hurricane Beelzebub, anybody?) would probably risk crying wolf too often.
In Hell, stretched over many acres, lay the Titans who defied Zeus in Greek myth Prometheus, Tantalus, Sisyphus and the rest or the bad angels who fought God in Judeo-Christian tradition, Beelzebub, Moloch, Ashtoreth, Belial, "hurld headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Skie", as Milton wrote, into the lake of fire.
Satan, the archenemy of the Christ; Lucifer, the fallen Light Bearer; and the originally Canaanite Beelzebub, the Lord of Flies (or, perhaps, Beelzebul, the Lord of Dung), mentioned by Jesus, are all devils.
Some medieval scholars of demonology ascribed to a hierarchy of seven archdemons the seven deadly sins: Lucifer (Pride); Mammon (Avarice); Asmodeus (Lechery); Satan (Anger); Beelzebub (Gluttony); Leviathan (Envy); and Belphegor (Sloth).
In postbiblical Judaism and in Christianity, however, Satan became known as the "prince of devils" and assumed various names: Beelzebub ("Lord of Flies") in Matthew 12 24 27, often cited as Beelzebul ("Lord of Dung"), and Lucifer (the fallen angel of Light).
Known as 'Beelzebub' or even the 'Mafioso Mummy' on account of his apparent immortality and cadaverous appearance - as well as his nefarious links with Cosa Nostra and the Vatican - the 94-year-old died on Monday morning after several months of heart problems.
To hear him describe it, this is a Beelzebub after his own heart: "I have never written about Mephistopheles.
