Alain Delon, a French actor who achieved international ... He had an unnerving presence — almost feminine prettiness and tough-guy masculinity, angel as devil. The first film to tap into his ...

Hackman will almost certainly be remembered mainly for his tough-guy performance in The French Connection-- though many will ...

Hackman will almost certainly be remembered mainly for his tough-guy performance in The French Connection — though many will also remember him as the Hollywood actor’s actor.

The Oscars are honoring Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman ... remembered me as someone who tried to do good work." Tough guy, everyman. Gene Hackman pursued anonymity and a private artist ...

Decades later, Hackman said he still thought about that little wave, and how much an actor could show ... for his performance in the 1972 film The French Connection, in which he played a hard ...

The actor was a star of the golden era of French cinema, known for his tough-guy persona on screen in hits including The Samurai and Borsalino. Delon had been in poor health in recent years and ...

I was watching it going, ‘No wonder this guy wants to throttle people,'" the actor added ... ‘The French Connection,’ ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ ‘Unforgiven’ — tough yet vulnerable.

Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor who brought a flinty menace to ... The film also was named best picture. The tough-guy role, for which he donned a porkpie hat, was modeled after New York ...