Coming of age at the same time as other influential American actors, like Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall ... and the following year, in The French Connection, he played Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, a ...

Hollywood paid tribute to Gene Hackman, who was found dead along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog in their New Mexico home.

NEW YORK — One of the greatest American actors of the 20th century was voted “least likely ... Though one of Hackman’s defining roles, in William Friedkin’s “The French Connection,” Hackman initially ...