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Hackman played one of Teddy Roosevelt 's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga Bite the Bullet (1975). He reprised his Oscar-winning role as Doyle in the sequel French Connection II (1975), and co-starred with Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli in Lucky Lady (1975), a notorious flop.
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- 'The Royal Tenenbaums' (2001) Directed by Wes Anderson. It's fair to call The Royal Tenenbaums a comedy, so long as you include a disclaimer of sorts that clarifies it's a very sad comedy at times.
- 'Superman' (1978) Directed by Richard Donner. The original Superman is arguably still the best movie to ever feature the iconic superhero. It's a pure and good-natured superhero movie, with the titular character doing a whole lot more saving people than fighting them.
- 'Reds' (1981) Directed by Warren Beatty. Reds is a mammoth film, clocking in at 195 minutes and telling a large-scale historical story with a truly impressive cast.
- 'Hoosiers' (1986) Directed by David Anspaugh. A compelling and underrated 1980s sports drama, Hoosiers sees Gene Hackman playing a determined - and sometimes divisive - coach of a small-town basketball team.
May 23, 2022 · He may have thought "No basketball movie has ever made any money," but that didn't stop him from putting in the work. And "Hoosiers" did make decent money, and now it's considered a...
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- The French Connection. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider. 551 votes. In this Oscar-winning classic, Gene Hackman delivers an exceptional performance as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, a gritty New York City detective on the trail of a powerful drug lord.
- Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. 533 votes. This 1992 Clint Eastwood-directed Western stars Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett, the ruthless sheriff of Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
- The Conversation. Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest. 403 votes. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1974 amidst the Watergate scandal backdrop, The Conversation tells the story of Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a surveillance expert who becomes paranoid after discovering a sinister plot related to one of his assignments.
- Mississippi Burning. Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand. 543 votes. This gripping 1988 crime drama directed by Alan Parker is based on the real-life investigation into the murders of three civil rights activists in Mississippi during 1964.
Jan 26, 2020 · In the picaresque road movie Scarecrow (1973), which Hackman described as his favourite movie he worked on, he and Al Pacino played a pair of ex-con hobos who dream of opening a car wash. “It...
Nov 3, 2016 · It has to do with Gene. People sometimes ask me if Hackman ever apologized, and he never did, not really. But when the movie was all cut, everybody had done their ADR work except for Gene....
Jan 31, 2023 · Hackman did make one sly attempt at doing another kind of film work, he told The Independent, when he ran into a movie being shot near his home. "There was a young assistant director on a ...
