Bullitt for Best Action Drama, Best Action Performance (Steve McQueen) and Best Female New Face (Jacqueline Bisset). In 2000, the Society of Camera Operators awarded "Bullitt" its "Historical Shot" award to David M. Walsh. The famous car chase was later spoofed in Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy film, "What's Up, Doc?", the Clint Eastwood film, "The Dead Pool", in the "Futurama" episode, "Bendin' in the Wind," and in the "Archer" season six episode, "The Kanes." "Bullitt" producer Philip D'Antoni went on to film two more car chases, for "The French Connection" and "The Seven-Ups", both set and shot in New York City.
Paul Genge truck driven by Paul Drake, are killed when their car loses control and rolls down the cliff, somewhat similar to the chase scene in "Bullitt". Paul Genge Paul Morgan Genge (29 March 1913 Brooklyn, New York – 13 May 1988 Los Angeles, California) was an actor from the 1950s through to the late 1970s. Genge is most famous for his role as the shotgun toting gray-haired mob hitman 'Mike' in the 1968 film "Bullitt" (his character is the passenger in the black 1968 Dodge Charger during the famous car chase that goes out of control and causes his death and