Luthor in three Superman films. He plays the blind man in Mel Brooks’ hilarious Young Frankenstein. He was Reverend Scott in The Poseidon Adventure, one of the films that helped launch the disaster movie. He’s unforgettable as Coach Norman Dale in Hoosiers, one of the great sports films.

Crimson Tide is a classic submarine drama. Besides Unforgiven, Hackman is also great in Sam Raimi’s underrated Western The Quick and the Dead. If you like legal thrillers, you’ve probably seen him at least ten times in The Firm. And he made maybe the greatest private eye movie of the 1970s, Arthur Penn’s Night Moves. (It also has an amazing trailer.)

In his retirement years, Hackman has made a few public appearances, written a few novels, and largely kept to himself. HeJohn McDonnell says Labour will now vote against charter requiring government to run budget surplus within three years during ‘normal times’

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has made a last minute U-turn by announcing that Labour will vote against the government’s charter of fiscal responsibility on Wednesday.

He told the Guardian in an interview during the weekend of the Labour conference that the party would back the fiscal rules despite Jeremy Corbyn having been elected as leader on an anti-austerity ticket. McDonnell said he was committed to balancing the books even though he did not agree with many of the charter’s specific objectives.

Some Labour MPs were openly planning to rebel and vote against the charter including the Treasury select committee member Helen Goodman. There had also been opposition to his