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 ...

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.

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

A livewire performer with a darkness and a grit few could possibly match, Hackman was an icon of the '70s and an indisputable all-time great. One of the first major film stars to break out in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actor Gene Hackman has died. (Evening Standard/Getty Images) Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar-winning everyman of The French ...

In his real life, retired NYPD Detective Randy Jurgensen busted cop killers, drug dealers and street corner goons — but in his reel life he was the guy who whacked the godfather’s first born. During ...

Sonny Grosso, the true-blue New York City police detective who with his gung-ho partner made the record heroin bust that inspired the Oscar-winning film “The French Connection,” died Wednesday at his ...