An actor who imbued charm or intensity to any role he played, Gene Hackman swallowed the scenery. Here are some of the ...

From his breakout role in Bonnie and Clyde to his iconic turn as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, he brought a raw intensity that made every character unforgettable ...

Hackman’s Popeye Doyle became something of a reactionary hero: the cop who doesn’t go by any rules but who gets the job done. This is a bit of retrospective myth making, of course. Connection ...

My mother and I were at *** film once and she ... Hackman was nominated for an Oscar, the first of numerous. Anti-hero roles from the 1960s on. The acclaim covered up *** potential career disaster.

Royal is no hero. He is a liar, a cheat, a con artist, a casual racist, a man capable of shocking tactlessness and cruelty (he repeatedly refers to his daughter Margot as “my adopted daughter ...

T he history of horror cinema is filled with trends, with different eras of the genre being defined by the wild ways creators try to terrify their audiences. From the schlocky tee ...

Hackman played Hackman, and if you went to the theater to see anyone else, well, my money back, please. The guy who is Popeye Doyle in ... every young actor’s hero, Gene Hackman.

He was 40 when he had his first leading role, in the drama “I Never Sang for My Father.” The next year he put on a porkpie hat to play the vicious cop Popeye Doyle in “The French Connection ...

My mother and I were at *** film once and she ... Hackman was nominated for an Oscar, the first of numerous. Anti-hero roles from the 1960s on. The acclaim covered up *** potential career disaster.

He was perhaps at his strongest when portraying a character, sometimes an anti-hero, with a mission. If he had misgivings about the racism and casual cruelties of unforgettably thuggish cop Popeye ...