He won two Oscars over a career spanning over four decades, for playing Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s 1971 ... look at Hackman’s career in photos below.

William Friedkin is rightly considered a pioneer of the New Hollywood movement that exploded onto American screens in the late ’60s and ’70s. Sometimes thought of as the enfant terrible of the New ...

Two years before director William Friedkin made a splash with "The Exorcist," he made an unforgettable neo-noir thriller.