Most people have at least one favourite Gene Hackman performance. The actor, a chameleonic everyman with a movie star’s charisma, was found dead with his wife.
Gene Hackman, who has died at 95, was a stunner in great movies and the best thing in many bad ones – a rumpled, roiling, always complex and often combustible presence who helped define the New Hollywood of the late 1960s and ’70s before going on to a varied and generous career.
The writers and editors of The Washington Post picked some of their favourite Hackman performances.
