• Name: Gene Hackman
• Date of Birth: January 30, 1930
• Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, USA

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Biography: A child of a broken home, Gene Hackman left home at 16 for a three-year hitch with the Marines. Hackman would be over 30 years old when he finally decided to take his chance at acting by enrolling...( read more ) at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (legend says that Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were voted "least likely to succeed"). Hackman next moved back to New York, where he worked in summer stock.

Hackman began performing in several off-Broadway plays. Finally, in 1964, he had the offer to play on Broadway, which opened the doors to the movies. His first role was in Lilith, with Warren Beatty in the leading role. Another secondary role, Buck Barrow, in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. In 1971, he was again nominated for the same award, this time for I Never Sang for My Father, working alongside Melvyn Douglas and Estelle Parsons. The next year he won the Best Actor award for his memorable performance as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. He also gave us a great interpretation such as Harry Caul in The Conversation (1974), the classic movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and appeared in the star studded war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and showed a talent for both comedy and the "slow burn" as Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie (1978), and Superman II (1980).

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  franzmittelstaedt

  Isn't that Gene Hackman doing the voiceover in the VISA break dancing commercial? My friend doesn't believe me. Please let me know how I can prove it to him. Thanks.

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  HappyRotter

  You see this guy, and you know everything's gonna be cool.

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  KnightRuler

  The man can do it all.

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  happygrl

  he is hilarious

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  jameshadley

  True dat true

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  indydragon88

  Gene Hackman is one of the best actors ever!

  posted 522 days ago

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• Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (Unrated, 2007)
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (PG, 2006)
• Prime Cut (R, 2005)
• Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (Unrated, 2004)
• Welcome To Mooseport (PG-13, 2004)
• Runaway Jury (PG-13, 2003)
• Heroes of Iwo Jima (Unrated, 2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums: Bonus Material (Unrated, 2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (R, 2001)
• Behind Enemy Lines (PG-13, 2001)

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  Hackman quits movies for writing career

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