Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although watching himself on film made Hackman "uncomfortable," he loved "doing the acting." He said, "I love that part of it.

It’s the dead of winter. As Santa Claus rings his bells on a pavement in Brooklyn, a hot dog vendor wanders into a bar.

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...

Hollywood has lost one of its great screen legends. Gene Hackman was found dead in his Santa Fe, N.M. home on Feb. 26, 2025, at the age of 95. Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, also died in the couple's ...

William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...

Actor Gene Hackman has died at age 95. Gene Hackman won Academy Awards for the movies "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven." Gene Hackman was renowned for portraying movie characters from everyman ...

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

“All I can say is that we’re in the middle of a preliminary death investigation, waiting on approval of a search warrant,” the sheriff told the Santa Fe New Mexican. The statement came before ...

The film's cinematographer breaks down the filming of the chaotic subway ride that was "too much" for Spike Lee.