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Few actors have ever been as good at being bad as Gene Hackman. The celebrated leading man, who passed away earlier this year at age 95, will be best remembered for charismatic portrayals of complicated men like the hardboiled detective “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, the mutinous sub captain in Crimson Tide, and the perfidious patriarch in The Royal Tenebaums. In addition to being one of the most entertaining screen villains of his generation, however, Hackman was also a…
