writer-director Mel Brooks reminisced about working with Hackman on his Academy Award-nominated 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein. “I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played ...

Here's the thing about Gene Hackman ... Or had one of his funniest roles courtesy of a Mel Brooks classic comedy? Once you revisit the major Hackman works – "The French Connection," "Superman ...

Gene Hackman —who ... befriends the Creature in Mel Brooks' send-up of horror movies. It's based on the character in the 1931 "Frankenstein," of course, but Hackman's originally uncredited ...

Gene Hackman ... man — a cameo role — in Mel Brooks’s horror-film spoof “Young Frankenstein” (1974). It was an unusually small role for an actor of Mr. Hackman’s stature, but he ...

Moviegoers lost Gene ... Mel Brooks film was spoofing a moment from the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein in which Boris Karloff’s undead behemoth finds kindness from a similar hermit. Hackman ...