Gene Hackman
Gender: Male
Born: 30th January 1930 (currently 82 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Bridge Too Far, Absolute Power, Behind Enemy Lines, Bonnie and Clyde, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Extreme Measures, French Connection II, Hoosiers, Marooned, Mississippi Burning, Night Moves, No Way Out, Superman, Superman II, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, The Birdcage, The Chamber, The Conversation, The Firm, The French Connection, The Mexican, The Poseidon Adventure, The Quick and the Dead, The Royal Tenenbaums, Uncommon Valor, Under Fire, Under Suspicion, Unforgiven, Young Frankenstein, The Replacements, The Gypsy Moths, Eureka, Bat*21, Get Shorty, Bite the Bullet, Scarecrow, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, Antz, Class Action, Runaway Jury, Twilight, I Never Sang for My Father, Reds, March or Die, Welcome to Mooseport, Heist, All Night Long, Wyatt Earp, Prime Cut, Narrow Margin, Heartbreakers, The Domino Principle, Downhill Racer, Cisco Pike, Geronimo: An American Legend, Target, Hawaii, The Package, Loose Cannons, Twice in a Lifetime, Split Decisions, Doctors' Wives, Lucky Lady, Postcards from the Edge, The Hunting Party, Company Business, Misunderstood, Lilith, Riot, Zandy's Bride, Full Moon in Blue Water, Another Woman, Power, Heroes of Iwo Jima, The French Connection: Bonus Material, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Misunderstood (1984)
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include The French Connection (1971), in which he played Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); Superman (1978), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor; Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Enemy of the State (1998); and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda (née Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman. He has a brother, Richard. His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice. Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. Hackman's parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family.
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