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Gene Hackman’s portrayal of the questionable cop / antihero is one of his best performances in a career of remarkable performances. The ‘documentary’ film style was quite unique for the time and the ending was a pretty bold choice compared to a lot of crime dramas at the time.
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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.
Gene Hackman as a cliché plays-by-his-own-rules renegade cop partnered with Dan Aykroyd, who suffers from the most annoying split personality (overacting) disorder ever portrayed on film. Together they must uncover the secrets behind a gay porno starring Adolf Hitler (seriously).
Eugene Allen Hackman [1] [2] [3] (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Silver Bear.
Dec 19, 2019 · This Western is perhaps his best bad guy role in a story that subverts the genre expectations. Clint Eastwood stars as an aging outlaw who is hired by a group of prostitutes to kill a man who brutalized them. Hackman stares as a menacing sheriff who goes after the gunslinger.
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Jan 30, 2015 · After Bonnie and Clyde, Hackman trod water for a while, doing good work but not getting the leads he deserved. This changed with the cop thriller The French Connection, in which this most good-humoured of actors plays, with total authenticity, a complete bastard.
