Popeye Doyle (film)

Popeye Doyle is an American 1986 television film starring Ed O'Neill as New York City police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle. The film is a sequel to the feature films The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), in which Doyle had been played by Gene Hackman; Hackman had won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The French Connection. Popeye Doyle was originally intended as a pilot episode for a series called Popeye Doyle, but the series was not picked up.

The character of Popeye Doyle is based on a real-life New York City police detective, Eddie Egan, who had appeared in The French Connection as Walt Simonson, Doyle's supervisor.

New York City police Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle investigates the case of a murdered model, which leads him on the trail of a gang of terrorists and a drug cartel of international smugglers.

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1. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
2. The French Connection (film)
3. Popeye (disambiguation)
4. French Connection II
5. Popeye
6. Popeyes
7. Eddie Egan
8. The French Connection (book)
9. Gene Hackman
10. Doyle
11. Pork pie hat
12. Ed O'Neill
13. Sherlock Holmes (2010 film)
14. Peter Levin
15. National Lampoon's Vacation
16. Joe (1970 film)
17. Bill Hickman
18. Nighthawks (1981 film)
19. Howard Doyle Berry
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