Another contender — Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle driving a Pontiac LeMans in pursuit of an el-train in ‘The French Connection.’

Another contender — Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle driving a Pontiac LeMans in pursuit of an el-train in ‘The French Connection.’
Steve McQueen died on this day, November 7, in 1980. He went from a delinquent youth who did time in reform schools to the world’s most popular actor in the 1960s and ‘80s.