What character was played by Gene Hackman in 'The French Connection'?
"Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle Detective Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle is a fictional character portrayed by actor Gene Hackman in the films ""The French Connection"" (1971) and its sequel, ""French Connection II"" (1975), and by Ed O'Neill in the 1986 television film ""Popeye Doyle"". Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""The French Connection"". The character is based on a real-life New York City police detective, Eddie Egan, who also appeared in the film as Walt Simonson, Doyle's supervisor. Doyle, as played by Hackman in ""The French Connection"", is ranked number 44 as a hero on the AFI's"
"the film and Mr. Hackman exploit most effectively"". The film earned North American rentals of $5.6 million, surpassing its $4.3 million budget. ""Empire"" considered ""French Connection II"" to be the 19th greatest film sequel in 2009. French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down"
"French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, who escaped at the end of the first film. Hackman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the original ""The French Connection"" and he and Fernando Rey are the only returning"
"""rude boy"" subculture popularized the hat and brought it back into style in the United Kingdom, thereby influencing its occasional appearance in the mod subculture. The porkpie hat enjoyed a slight resurgence in exposure and popularity after Gene Hackman's character Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle wore one in the 1971 film ""The French Connection"". Doyle was based on real-life policeman Eddie Egan, who played the captain in the film, and his exploits. Egan was famous all his life for wearing a pork pie hat, and refused to surrender his hat to Gene Hackman to wear in the film. The producers were forced"
"Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in ""The French Connection"" and Best Supporting Actor in ""Unforgiven"". He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in ""Bonnie and Clyde"", when he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His major subsequent films include: ""I Never Sang for My Father"" (1970), when he received his"
"as New York City Detective Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle in ""The French Connection"", marking his graduation to leading man status. He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Conversation"" (1974), which was nominated for several Oscars. That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as The Blindman in ""Young Frankenstein"". He later appeared as one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga ""Bite the Bullet"" (1975), as well as in that year's sequel ""French Connection II"". In 1975 he"
"The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book ""The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy"". It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle and Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier. The film stars Gene Hackman as Popeye, Roy Scheider as Cloudy, and Fernando Rey as Charnier. Tony Lo Bianco"
"Bill talking about his work are few and far between, although in the featurette shot at the time, ""Bullitt: Steve McQueen’s Commitment To Reality"", Bill can be seen discussing the chase with McQueen on location. Another of the memorable moments in Hickman's career was when he was asked to perform a high-risk car-chase scene by William Friedkin for his 1971 film ""The French Connection"". As with ""Bullitt"", ""The French Connection"" (also produced by Bullitt's producer, Philip D'Antoni) is famed for its car-chase sequence. What differs from the usual car chase is that Gene Hackman’s character is chasing an elevated train"
"of such ancient material as cops and crooks, with thrills and chases, and lots of shoot-'em-up."" As of June 2018, the film holds a 98% ""certified fresh"" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 56 critics. The sites critical consensus states, ""Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, ""The French Connection"" is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production."" In 2014, ""Time Out"" polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. ""The French Connection"" was listed at 40th place on this"
"""The French Connection"" (1971). The role would earn Gene Hackman the Oscar for Best Actor. Boyle nevertheless played a ruthless gangster four years later in ""Crazy Joe"" (not a sequel) and a not-so-ruthless gangster in the comedy ""Johnny Dangerously"". He also appeared in the violent drama ""Taxi Driver"". ""Joe"" inspired the creation of other tough, working class characters in 70s films and TV shows, including the character of Archie Bunker on the TV show ""All in the Family"". In the 1980s, there were rumors that Peter Boyle might appear in a sequel to ""Joe"". ""Citizen Joe"", the sequel, would follow"
"15 years, and he was reported to have been responsible for more than 8,000 arrests. Egan's most famous exploits were the subject of a book and movie, both titled ""The French Connection"". Egan, his partner Sonny Grosso, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 seizing 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and the subsequent motion picture released in 1971. The movie was highly fictionalized and very successful. The character based on Egan, Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle, was played by Gene Hackman"
"at the Sorbonne and in 1964 they formed the ""théâtre du soleil"". He played Philippe, the tormented son of a woman with terminal illness, in the 1974 drama film ""La Gueule ouverte"", by the controversial director Maurice Pialat. He won a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1982 movie ""La Balance"". One of his few English-language roles was a cameo in the 1973 thriller ""The Day of the Jackal"" and he co-starred as ""Jacques"" in the 1975 John Frankenheimer movie ""French Connection II"" which starred Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey, (sequel to ""The French Connection""). Léotard"
"become less exciting. 1977 brought a terrorist targeting a ""Rollercoaster"", 1978 a ""Swarm"" of bees, and a less-than-threatening ""Meteor"" in 1979. The early 1970s also brought a rebirth of gritty crime film, three years after the influential ""Bullitt"". William Friedkin's ""The French Connection"", starring Gene Hackman as a drug detective and Sidney Lumet's ""Serpico"", starring Al Pacino in the true-life story of an honest cop who fought corruption, were two of the most famous ones. Films like ""Get Carter"" featured gratuitous nudity, while Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking ""A Clockwork Orange"" featured much physical and sexual violence to complement its complex story."
"second Best Supporting Actor nomination; ""The French Connection"" (1971) and ""French Connection II"" (1975), when he played Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle; ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972); ""The Conversation"" (1974); ""Superman: The Movie"" (1978), when he played arch-villain Lex Luthor; ""Hoosiers"" (1986); and ""Mississippi Burning"" (1988), when he received his second Best Actor nomination. His film roles during the 1990s featured: ""Unforgiven"" (1992); ""The Firm"" (1993); ""The Quick and the Dead""; ""Crimson Tide"" (1995); ""Get Shorty"" (1995); ""The Birdcage"" (1996); and ""Enemy of the State"" (1998) Later roles included: ""Behind Enemy Lines"" (2001); and ""The Royal Tenenbaums"" (2001). Hackman's final film appearance to"
"The French Connection, ""(he) was an only son with three sisters. When his father, a truck driver, died suddenly at thirty-seven, Sonny, the eldest, became the head of the family at fifteen. He treated his sisters with fatherly care. Egan and Grosso were technical advisers to the movie and played small roles. The movie was highly fictionalized, and a character based on Grosso, called ""Buddy Russo"", was played by actor Roy Scheider, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Like the character, Grosso's nickname as a detective was ""Cloudy."" This was due to"
"29th Golden Globe Awards The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971 films, were held on February 6, 1972. ""' Gene Hackman – ""The French Connection"" ""' Topol – ""Fiddler on the Roof"" ""' Jane Fonda – ""Klute"" ""' Twiggy – ""The Boy Friend"" ""' William Friedkin – ""The French Connection"" ""' ""The French Connection"" ""' ""Fiddler on the Roof"" ""' ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" • UK ""' ""The Policeman (HaShoter Azulai)"" • Israel ""Shaft"" – Isaac Hayes ""' ""Life Is What You Make It"" – ""Kotch"" ""' ""The Hospital"" – Paddy Chayefsky ""' Ben"
"Near the end of the movie, Popeye accidentally kills Bill Mulderig (Bill Hickman), a federal agent with whom he previously had an argument. Undeterred with his death, Popeye continues in pursuit of his foe. This shows Popeye's absolute obsession in his mission. The 1975 sequel ""French Connection II"" follows Popeye as he pursues drug smuggler Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) back to Marseille. Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey — the only two cast members to appear in both movies — reprised their roles as Popeye and Charnier. While the original movie was based on a true story, the sequel was entirely"
"""The French Connection"". After casting Scheider in the main role, Lino Ventura refused to take second billing to him. On the other hand, the actor chosen by Friedkin to replace Ventura turned out to be Bruno Cremer, who, among other pictures prior to ""Sorcerer"", had played in Costa-Gavras's ""Section spéciale"" and whom Friedkin described as a ""good actor"". The only actor who was Friedkin's original choice was the French-Moroccan Amidou, who played the Palestinian terrorist, Kassem. Friedkin was so impressed with his performance in Claude Lelouch's ""La Vie, l'amour, la mort"" (released in 1968) that he wrote down his name"
"with the consensus: ""This tense, paranoid thriller presents Francis Ford Coppola at his finest—and makes some remarkably advanced arguments about technology's role in society that still resonate today."" Roger Ebert's contemporary review gave ""The Conversation"" four out of four stars, and described Hackman's portrayal of Caul as ""one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies."" In 2001, Ebert added ""The Conversation"" to his ""Great Movies"" list, describing Hackman's performance as a ""career peak"" and writing that the film ""comes from another time and place than today's thrillers, which are so often simple-minded."" In 1995, ""The Conversation"" was"
"""That Obscure Object of Desire"" (1977). For Welles, Rey performed in two completed films, ""Chimes at Midnight"" (1966) and ""The Immortal Story"" (1968). Rey played memorably the French villain Alain Charnier in William Friedkin's ""The French Connection"" (1971). Initially, Friedkin intended to cast Francisco Rabal as Charnier, but could not remember his name after seeing him in Luis Buñuel's ""Belle de jour""; he only knew the person he had in mind was a Spanish actor who had worked with Buñuel. Rey was hired after he flew to New York to be met by a surprised Friedkin. Rey's English and French"
"of Jacques Tati. Gene Hackman, whose specialty has been believable, lived-in characters, gives one of his most likable performances."" Gary Arnold of ""The Washington Post"" also praised Hackman's performance, calling it ""the most endearing of his career, an impression of frustrated but resilient middle-class masculinity that should evoke as much recognition and rooting interest among men as women seemed to derive from Ellen Burstyn's role in ""Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore""."" Streisand was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance. Gene Hackman was nominated for a 2nd place National Society of Film Critics Award for"
"rare brio, chockablock with consummate tough-guy business."" Peter Debruge from ""Variety"" states that ""Jimenez adopts a vintage-kitsch sensibility, taking a disappointingly generic approach to his hard-to-follow narrative."" John DeFore from ""The Hollywood Reporter"" calls the film a ""...procedural epic whose complicated narrative is propelled by visceral action sequences and an unusually thrilling soundtrack."" The Connection (2014 action film) The Connection () is a 2014 French-Belgian action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and produced by Alain Goldman. The film was inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel"
"The Conversation The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall. The plot revolves around a surveillance expert and the moral dilemma he faces when his recordings reveal a potential murder. Coppola cited the 1966 film ""Blowup"" as a key influence. However, since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, he felt that audiences interpreted the film to be a"
"of tapping the popularity of another film, ""The French Connection"" (starring Gene Hackman), released in the U.S. in 1971. That title was intended to be used for the U.S. release of another Bruce Lee film, ""The Big Boss"", which also involved drug smuggling. However, the U.S. titles for ""Fist of Fury"" and ""The Big Boss"" were accidentally switched, resulting in ""Fist of Fury"" being released in the U.S. under the title ""The Chinese Connection"" until 2005, while ""The Big Boss"" was released as ""Fists of Fury"". Recent television screenings and the current official DVD release (by 20th Century Fox, originally"
"Hackman and Barbara Harris. (Hackman would later thank Morrison during his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award for his role in ""The French Connection"" at the 1972 Academy Awards.) In 1972, Morrison became one of the founding faculty of a new Actor Training Program along with Norris Houghton and Joseph Anthony at the State University of New York at Purchase, where he taught for 18 years and was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Teaching and is now Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts. His students at Purchase included Edie Falco, Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci. He retired in 1988"
"enforcement, later working as a narcotics detective. He and his former NYPD partner, Eddie Egan, were the detectives responsible for bringing an end to the infamous drug smuggling ring known as the French Connection. Grosso served as technical adviser on the film based on the investigation. He also worked as a consultant for the film ""The Godfather"" and as story editor for the TV series ""The Rockford Files"", ""Kojak"" and ""Baretta"". Grosso and Jacobson were originally approached by CBS to produce a docudrama series following actual police officers, but they considered the potential risk in filming people who had not"
"the violent, end-justifies-the-means moral of the story. He believed the role and plot contradicted his belief in collective responsibility for criminal and social justice and the protection of individual rights. Marlon Brando was considered for the role, but was never formally approached. Both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman turned down the role. McQueen refused to make another ""cop movie"" after ""Bullitt"" (1968). He would also turn down the lead in ""The French Connection"" the same year, giving the same reason. Believing the character was too ""right-wing"" for him, Newman suggested that the film would be a good vehicle for Eastwood."
"and Marcel Bozzuffi also star. The Three Degrees feature in a nightclub scene. It was the first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture since the introduction of the MPAA film rating system in 1968. It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director (Friedkin), Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay (Tidyman). It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography and Best Sound Mixing. Tidyman also received a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Writers Guild of America Award and an Edgar Award for his screenplay. A sequel, ""French Connection II"", followed in"
"The film ends with Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, Calculus, Nestor, Clodion, Romulus and the postman from the beginning of the film, being treated to a visit by the local band to help them celebrate and Romulus in Calculus's new invention, a flying birdcage. The actors playing Thomson and Thompson are listed as ""incognito"" in the end credits. Snowy the dog is credited as Milou, which is his original French name. Marcel Bozzuffi, who plays the thug Angorapoulos, is best known as the hitman pursued in the famous car chase and shot by Gene Hackman in ""The French Connection"". ""Karabine"" is a"
"The French Connection (book) The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy is a non-fiction book by Robin Moore first published in 1969 about the notorious ""French Connection"" drug trafficking scheme. It is followed by the book ""The Setup"". The book was adapted to film in 1971 as ""The French Connection"", written by Ernest Tidyman and directed by William Friedkin. The story follows the exhausting investigation of New York City detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso as they attempt to uncover the participants of a major drug ring. Acting on a hunch, the detectives begin surveillance"
"it has attracted viewers and significant critical attention following its videotape and DVD releases. In 2010, Manohla Dargis described it as ""the great, despairing ""Night Moves"" (1975), with Gene Hackman as a private detective who ends up circling the abyss, a no-exit comment on the post-1968, post-Watergate times."" Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a retired professional football player now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He discovers that his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) is having an affair with a man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin). Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her 16-year-old daughter"
"The Connection (2014 action film) The Connection () is a 2014 French-Belgian action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and produced by Alain Goldman. The film was inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel and Gilles Lellouche as Gaëtan ""Tany"" Zampa, a drug gang ringleader. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2014. 1970s Marseilles is ruled by a brutal drug gang importing morphine from Turkey, transforming it into heroin and exporting the product to New York under the gang name ""la"
"entitled ""Night Heat"", starring Jeff Wincott and Scott Hylands. Sonny Grosso Salvatore ""Sonny"" Grosso (born 1933) is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of the French Connection. He was born in 1932 or 1933 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Grosso and his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and"