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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 French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir [6] action thriller film [7] directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, by Ernest Tidyman , is based on Robin Moore 's 1969 nonfiction book about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso .
The character was called "Popeye" because that was Egan's nickname in real life. Egan played a role in the movie as Hackman's supervisor, Simonson. [5] Egan and Grosso were also technical advisors. [3] Hackman reprised this role in the sequel film French Connection II in 1975, which depicts a fictionalized story. [6]
Gene Hackman stars in William Friedkin's 1971 classic, The French Connection, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.(Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection ...
Popeye Doyle is an American 1986 television film starring Ed O'Neill as New York City police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle. [2] It is a sequel to the feature films The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), in which Gene Hackman played Doyle; Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The French Connection. [2]
Tony Lo Bianco, best known for playing the mobster Sal Boca in 1971’s The French Connection, has died.He was 87. In a statement to Fox News, Lo Bianco’s representative confirmed that the actor ...
French Connection II is a 1975 American neo-noir action thriller film [3] starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer.It is a sequel to the 1971 film The French Connection, and continues the story of the central character, Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, who travels to Marseille in order to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, played by Fernando Rey, who escaped at the ...
It’s an outrageously illegal set-up, but the movie blithely winks at O’Brien’s do-whatever-it-takes philosophy, much as “The French Connection” winked at Popeye Doyle’s.