The Conversation

…acted in another Coppola film, The Conversation (1974), playing Stan, an assistant to a meticulous and devout surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) who scorns Stan’s irreverent attitude to their work. In 1975 Cazale and Pacino teamed up again in Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, playing bank robbers whose holdup goes wrong.…

…as The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Conversation (1974), and Night Moves (1975). Lighter films—such as Mel Brooks’s satire Young Frankenstein (1974), in which Hackman shines in a small role as a blind man, and Superman (1978), in which he portrays comic-book villain Lex Luthor—exemplified his versatility and his underutilized