Gene Hackman
Birthday: 1930-01-30 | Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, USAEugene 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 four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); No Way Out (1987); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and his final film role before retirement, in Welcome to Mooseport (2004). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Acting
Role
as Monroe Cole
as Narrator
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
as Arnold Margolese
as Joe Moore
as Royal Tenenbaum
as William B. Tensy
as Henry Hearst
as Jimmy McGinty
as Brill
as General Mandible (voice)
as Jack Ames
as President Richmond
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
as Sam Cayhall
as Senator Kevin Keeley
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
as Harry Zimm
as John Herod
as Nicholas Earp
as Avery Tolar
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
as Sam Boyd
as Lowell Kolchek
as MacArthur Stern
as Robert Caulfield
