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Especially during his heroic run of work in the 1970s, Hackman was an astonishingly versatile actor, whether in the perverse satire of “Prime Cut,” the downtrodden naturalism of “Scarecrow” or countless other roles.

“I’m so downtrodden by this whole thing. I feel like we’re going backwards.”

Despite their contributions to the war effort and their generally downtrodden postwar status, they were widely viewed as a public nuisance.

Nevertheless, he argued, what other top-rated TV series would give airtime and weight to the miseries of the overlooked and downtrodden without painting them as villains?

He was much more at home in the presence of the afflicted and downtrodden.