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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).
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Aug 18, 2024 · The best Gene Hackman movies include The Conversation, Unforgiven, and The French Connection.
- Liam Gaughan
Hackman is a versatile actor who can play comedy (the blind man in Young Frankenstein (1974)) or villainy (the evil Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)). He is the doctor who puts his work above people in Extreme Measures (1996) and the captain on the edge of nuclear destruction in Crimson Tide (1995).
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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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Oct 5, 2021 · The film follows a New York detective "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider) as they chase a French heroin smuggler through the streets of the city.
