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- The French Connection (1971) Choosing the best film out of a career as long and rich as Hackman's can be a fool's errand, but if you had to pick one performance the actor will always be remembered for, it's that of Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection."
- The Conversation (1974) Released right before the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign from office, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" brilliantly captures the paranoia and unease coursing through the 1970s American psyche.
- Unforgiven (1992) Hackman won his second Oscar for Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western, which implicates both heroes and villains in the violence of the Old West.
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) "Bonnie and Clyde" not only launched Hackman's career, but also completely rewrote the rules for Hollywood filmmaking. Influenced by the more mature, experimental storytelling coming out of European cinema (particularly the French New Wave), it recounts the legendary story of Depression-era bank robbers Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway).
- THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) Director: William Friedkin. Writer: Ernest Tidyman. Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony LoBianco. Arguably the role for which Hackman may most likely be remembered is as NYPD Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, a hard-nosed cop who, with his partner Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (Roy Scheider), tries to find and stop French criminal mastermind Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) from delivering a huge delivery of heroin to the United States.
- UNFORGIVEN (1992) Director: Clint Eastwood. Writer: David Webb Peeples. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. On paper, the role of a corrupt sheriff in an Old West Wyoming town might not scream out “Oscar!”
- BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) Director: Arthur Penn. Writers: David Newman, Robert Benton. Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard.
- THE CONVERSATION (1974) Writer/Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest.
Aug 18, 2024 · The French Connection is the gold standard of cop movies and essentially proved why Hackman was such a compelling screen presence whose influence has never been topped by any modern actor. Popeye ...
- Liam Gaughan
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Director: Arthur Penn. Hackman had been playing minor roles in films for several years when he got the call to play Buck Barrow in Arthur Penn’s era-defining period drama.
- The French Connection (1971) Director: William Friedkin. After Bonnie and Clyde, Hackman trod water for a while, doing good work but not getting the leads he deserved.
- Scarecrow (1973) Director: Jerry Schatzberg. One of Hackman’s least-known films is one of his best. It’s a picaresque road movie in which Hackman and Al Pacino play two drifters who find a connection while travelling to Pittsburgh where they dream of opening a car wash.
- The Conversation (1974) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. The role of Harry Caul, the anally retentive, painfully shy bugging expert, is a surprising one for Hackman to have taken on but it reveals his brilliance as an actor.
- The Conversation (1974) The Conversation is a 1974 psychological thriller film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, and Harrison Ford.
- The French Connection (1971) “The French Connection” is a crime thriller film released in 1971, directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey.
- Mississippi Burning (1988) “Mississippi Burning” is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe.
- Unforgiven (1992) “Unforgiven” is a 1992 American Western film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, alongside Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.
Forceful, confident actor with every man looks, Gene Hackman, has been a power house in every performance. His breakthrough performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde placed Gene Hackman on the movie's actor's top shelf, where he has deservedly remained for many years and to the present day. Here are 22 of his very best films.
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Dec 19, 2019 · Hackman plays Popeye Doyle, a New York City cop who joins his partner to take down a French crime lord who is behind a drug-smuggling ring. The movie is a perfect example of the gritty, bold crime stories that were best told in the 70s with Hackman playing a hard-to-like hero.
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