One of the first major film stars to break out in the 1970s, Gene Hackman was the epitome of New Hollywood. An actor with livewire intensity, he had a grit and brusqueness that few others could ever match,

Gene Hackman, who has died at 95, was a stunner in great movies and the best thing in many bad ones — a rumpled, roiling, always complex and often combustible presence who helped define the New Hollywood of the late ’60s and ’70s before going on to a varied and generous career.

Royal Tenenbaum’s epitaph. Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) is not Gene Hackman’s final film. (The actor would go on to make two more films after its release,