But his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, the rogue cop in the Oscar best picture winner “The French Connection,” defined him and cast his trajectory as one of the American cinema’s great actors. His ...
"The French Connection" is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name. Both films tell the story of NYPD detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in pursuit of french heroin smugglers.
"The French Connection" is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name. Both films tell the story of NYPD detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in pursuit of french heroin smugglers.
Tony Lo Bianco, who starred as mobster Sal Boca in William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning film The French Connection ... they wanted to cast a guy with a Spanish accent,” Lo Bianco told La Nostra ...
More than half a century after William Friedkin’s revolutionary action film stunned viewers, Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the rogue cop at its centre manages to be so perversely sympathetic ...
New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.