Five Of Gene Hackman’s Best Known Films

The bodies of US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were discovered inside their New Mexico home.

Below are some of the actor’s best known films.

‘ French Connection ‘ (1971)

With his obsessive New York Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle on the run for international heroin smugglers, Hackman won the best actor Oscar for his role in one of the greatest thrillers ever made.

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William Friedkin’s action-packed yarn never lets up for a second, and its car chase under the elevated Brooklyn subway has gone down in film legend.

‘ The Conversation ‘ (1974)

In “Scarecrow,” Hackman and Al Pacino competed for the Palm d’Or at Cannes the following year, and they won. And he hit still greater heights in “The Conversation”, playing a paranoid, secretive surveillance expert having a crisis of conscience in Francis Ford Coppola’s thriller.

‘ Mississippi Burning ‘ (1988)

In this fictionalized version of the FBI’s investigation into the disappearance of three Deep South African activists in 1964, Hackman portrays a former Mississippi sheriff who lashes out at the Ku Klux Klan leaders for their murders.

‘ The Unforgiven ‘ (1992)

Hackman played the odious Sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s western, which the Los Angeles Times called the “finest since perhaps John Ford’s ‘ The Searchers ‘ in 1956”. The best supporting actor Oscar went to Jackman. Eastwood also starred as his nemesis, retired gunslinger Will Munny.

‘ The Royal Tenenbaums ‘ (2001)

Hackman played the pater familias of an eccentric over-achieving New York family, who has to explain to his grown-up children why he and his wife (Anjelica Huston) are separating. Chaos ensues in Wes Anderson’s whimsical black comedy.

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