Hackman’s career as one of Hollywood’s most prominent actors included five Oscar nominations, including wins for Best Actor in 1972 (The French Connection ... 80s, ’90s and early 2000s.

Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor whose gruff but soulful turns in classics such as “The French Connection ... as prominent across the '80s and '90s. He won his first Oscar for ...

but he turned The French Connection down on the grounds it was too close to Peter Yates’ Bullitt (1968) in which he had appeared a couple of years before. McQueen might have made an excellent ...

including wins for Best Actor in 1972 (The French Connection) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1993 (Unforgiven). Hackman’s resume spanned five decades until his retirement in the mid ...

By Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge Gene Hackman, the versatile leading man renowned for his smoldering performance as hard-nosed New York City narc Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection ...