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- 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.
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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).
It's a movie where almost everyone seems stoned or drugged up, Kristofferson is great as the main character and his songs are good too. Enjoyable performances too from Hackman, Karen Black and Harry Dean Stanton make this a decent watch about the tail end of the sixties drug scene.
- 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.
Hackman provided the voice of God in Two of a Kind (1983) and starred in Uncommon Valor (1983), Misunderstood (1984), Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Target (1985) for Arthur Penn, and Power (1986). Between 1985 and 1988, he starred in nine films, making him the busiest actor, alongside Steve Guttenberg.
Aug 18, 2024 · The best Gene Hackman movies include The Conversation, Unforgiven, and The French Connection.
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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.
