HACKMAN GENE: (1930-2025) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1971 for his role as Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle in the film The French Connection. A good signed 8 x 10 photograph of Hackman, the promotional Tri-Star Pictures image shows the awarded actor seated in a half-length pose, in costume as Robert Caulfield in a scene of Narrow Margin (1990). Signed by Hackman in bold blue ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. EX