Danny Ocean

Danny leaves a New Jersey prison after four years and breaks parole to find Rusty in Los Angeles. The two reach Las Vegas and convince Reuben Tishkoff to back the job. Danny recruits the crew, rehearses in a fake vault and, on the night, walks into the Bellagio to be beaten by a guard who secretly works for him. The city goes dark, the money vanishes and Danny is arrested for violating parole. Months later, Rusty and Tess pick him up at the gate.

Benedict finds all eleven and gives them two weeks to return the money plus $38 million in interest. Danny takes the crew to Europe, where he learns the Night Fox, a French baron, has challenged them. The bet is stealing the Imperial Fabergé egg. Danny and Tess return to the baron's villa at the end, and Danny reveals the real egg was stolen earlier, while in transit to the museum. The debt is paid.

Reuben Tishkoff has a heart attack after being double-crossed by Willy Bank. Danny gathers the crew and tries to avenge him: ruin the opening night of Bank's hotel. The drill that fakes an earthquake breaks, and he has to ask Terry Benedict for money. Danny does the rest: swaps diamonds, sets up fake FBI agents and takes everything Bank wanted. In the end, the plan has one more layer Bank never saw.

In the 1960 film, Danny Ocean is a former soldier of the 82nd Airborne Division, played by Frank Sinatra. With his friend Jimmy Foster, he recruits nine former comrades to rob five Las Vegas casinos on New Year's Eve. The plan uses the city's power grid and a garbage truck. The crew's electrician dies of a heart attack, and the police and the Mob take notice.

On New Year's Eve, the crew cuts the Strip's power, slips into the casinos' cash rooms and dumps the money bags into trash bins. Josh drives the garbage truck that carries them away. The electrician Tony Bergdorf dies of a heart attack in the street, and the mobster Duke Santos works it all out. The eleven hide the money in Tony's coffin, set aside $10,000 for the widow and try to take back the rest.

Danny Ocean was born in the film Ocean's 11 (1960), starring Frank Sinatra, from an idea by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell. George Clooney plays him in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its two sequels. In Ocean's 8 (2018), the lead is his sister, Debbie.