Nearly 70 students at a Flint elementary school took on the roles of notable figures in Black history this week for the ...

The Oscar winner once voted “Least Likely to Succeed” became one of the most celebrated performers in Hollywood history.

Legendary actor Gene Hackman, 95, and wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, and their dog were found dead in their home outside Santa Fe, ...

This is how we encounter Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) in William Friedkin’s The ... hangdog way. His porkpie hat gives him a cartoonish quality. Somehow, against considerable odds, the rogue ...

Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is celebrating its 200th anniversary this Sunday, half a million people are expected to attend.

Devan Coggan The right role at the right time can open all the locked career doors for an actor, and for Gene Hackman, that role was Popeye Doyle, the bad-news New York narcotics detective with the ...

Readers discuss Gene Hackman’s death, the male Gen Z vote, water pressure and chestnut trees. Regarding Gene Hackman’s Feb.

Image Mr. Hackman put on a porkpie hat to play Popeye Doyle in “The French Connection ... to make a name for himself in New York and California. He was constantly underestimated.

But it was his 1971 role as New York City cop Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in “The French Connection ... The tough-guy role, for which he donned a porkpie hat, was modeled after New York Police ...