Gene Hackman Signed and Inscribed “Popeye Doyle” French Connection Replica Hat

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Gene Hackman is an actor and novelist. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Hackman has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Silver Bear. Hackman’s two Academy Awards wins include one for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971), and the other for Best Supporting Actor playing “Little” Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven (1992). His other Oscar-nominated roles were in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Mississippi Burning (1988).

The featured “French Connection” replica Hat has been signed by Gene Hackman and he has included a “Popeye Doyle” inscription in silver. Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle is a fictional character portrayed by actor Gene Hackman in the films The French Connection and its sequel, French Connection II. French Connection tells the story of fictional NYPD detectives Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo, whose real-life counterparts were narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier. It is one of the greatest movies ever made.