Actor Gene Hackman, who appeared in more than 70 films and won two Academy Awards (for “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven”), was found dead at his home near Santa Fe, N.M. this week. He was 95. Correspondent Mo Rocca looks back on Hackman’s brilliant career, and talks with Brad Dourif (Hackman’s co-star in “Mississippi Burning”) and Hollywood Reporter chief film critic David Rooney about a star who refused to be typecast.
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