Popeye Doyle (1986)
1h 37m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Popeye Doyle (1986)
1h 37m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
While Popeye Doyle is investigating what appears to be a very simple drug overdose, he becomes involved in international intrigue. The Mosad and various other foreign diplomatic figures turn up everywhere he goes. The drug overdose becomes a very involved murder case.
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Cast & Crew.
Ed O'Neill
Popeye Doyle
Matthew Laurance
Tony Parese
George De La Pena
Itan Kellerman / The Shadow
James Handy
Lt. Gregory Paulus
Audrey Landers
Jill Anneyard
Candy Clark
Corinne Evans
Peter Levin
Director
J.K. Simmons
Patrolman in Park
Richard Di Lello
Writer
Nicholas Kadi
Auram Bardas / The Weasel
Brad Fiedel
Composer
Elias Zarou
Fahoud Nazzim
Reginald H. Morris
Cinematographer
Terence Anderson
Editor
Gary Tacon
Deli Bandit #1
Skip Schoolnik
Editor
Phil Neilson
Deli Bandit #2
Elizabeth Lennie
Toni
Peter Virgile
Pretty Boy
Richard Monette
Patrick Henley
S.J. Fellowes
Nurse #1
Guy Sanvido
Sammy
Philip Williams
Patrolman #2
Linda Gambell
Nurse #2
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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.