Retired NYPD Detective Randy Jurgensen’s career as a city sleuth led him from real life to the silver screen, riding along in ...

The death of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman saddened millions — and a legendary ex-NYPD detective who tutored him in his most famous screen role in “The French Connection” is feeling his loss more than ...

DANVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — The Fischer Theatre in Danville is celebrating one of its most famous former residents, Gene Hackman, with its first ever FischerFest. Five films were shown over the course of ...

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the ...

The challenge for "French Connection II" was not merely to replicate the original’s success but to carve out its own identity. Frankenheimer faced skepticism for taking the helm without Friedkin, yet ...

Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor whose gruff but soulful turns in classics like “The French Connection,” “The Conversation” and “Unforgiven” made him one of the most respected performers in ...

Hackman won two Oscars during his decades-spanning career. From a hard-nosed narcotics officer, to an inspirational basketball coach, to a corrupt Western sheriff and more, Gene Hackman's Oscar and ...

Even in an age of computer-generated effects and multi-million pound stunt sequences in movie franchies like Fast and Furious and Mission: Impossible, it stands as one of the greatest cinematic car ...