Gene Hackman – 1930-2025: Hollywood badass who never shirked a challenge
Gene Hackman’s most career-making moments as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s gritty 1971 New York neo noir The French Connection illuminated the true nature of one of cinema’s most renowned and respected tough guys. His cat and mouse surveillance of a drug boss on the subway, and his famous pursuit of an elevated train…