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Gene Hackman
At a book signing in Albuquerque 2008
Born	Eugene Allen Hackman January 30, 1930 (1930-01-30) (age 80) San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1961–2004

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman¹ (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and novelist.

Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His major roles include police detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, surveillance expert Harry Caul in The Conversation, basketball coach Norman Dale in Hoosiers, the heroic Reverend Scott in The Poseidon Adventure, federal agent Rupert Anderson in Mississippi Burning, sadistic sheriff Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven, arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (plus two of its sequels), Edward "Brill" Lyle in Enemy of the State, patriarch Royal Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums, submarine captain Frank Ramsey in Crimson Tide, professional thief Joe Moore in Heist and Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart in Behind Enemy Lines.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 1960s 2.2 1970s 2.3 1980s 2.4 1990s 2.5 2000s 2.6 Present 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda (née Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.² He has a brother, Richard. Hackman's family moved a lot until finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English maternal grandmother Beatrice,³ and where Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper.⁴ Hackman's parents divorced in 1943.⁴ His mother died in 1962 as a result of a fire she accidentally set while smoking.⁵ At 16, Hackman left home to join the U.S. Marine Corps where he served four-and-a-half years as a field radio operator. Having finished his service he moved to New York, working in several minor jobs.

Career

1960s

At 26 years old Hackman decided to become an actor and joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California. It was there that he forged a friendship with another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman. Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, Hackman and Hoffman were later voted "The Least Likely To Succeed." Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman hopped on a bus bound for New York City. A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described how Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall were all struggling actors and close friends while living in New York City in the 1960s. Hackman was working as a doorman when he ran into an instructor whom he had despised at the Pasadena Playhouse. Reinforcing "The Least Likely To Succeed" vote, the man had said "See Hackman, I told you you wouldn't amount to anything." Hackman began performing in several off-Broadway plays. Finally, in 1964, he had an offer to co-star in the play Any Wednesday with actress Sandy Dennis. This opened the door to film work. His first role was in Lilith, with Warren Beatty in the leading role. Another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. In 1969 he played a ski coach in Downhill Racer and an astronaut in Marooned. Also In 1969 he played the role of a member of a barnstorming Skydiving team that entertained mostly at county fairs. The Gypsy Moths is consider by hard core Skydivers & BASE jumpers to be the best movie to date on the Extreme Skydiving lifestyle.

1970s

In 1970, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award again, this time for I Never Sang for My Father, working alongside Melvyn Douglas and Estelle Parsons. The next year he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his memorable performance as New York City police officer Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, marking his graduation to leading man status.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) which was nominated for several Oscars. That same year Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein.

He later appeared as one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga Bite the Bullet (1975) and in the star-studded war film A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Polish General Sosabowski. Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the "slow burn" as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie (1978), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

1980s

By the end of the 1980s, Hackman alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning another Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning. He had a memorable part as a Secretary of Defense trying to cover up a homicide in 1987's No Way Out opposite Kevin Costner.

During this decade Hackman also could be seen in Reds, Under Fire, Hoosiers, Power, Uncommon Valor and Bat*21. A 2008 American Film Institute poll voted Hoosiers the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre.

1990s

In 1990, the actor underwent heart surgery, which kept him from work for a while, although he found time for Narrow Margin – a remake of The Narrow Margin (1952). In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff "Little" Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The film won Best Picture.

Hackman co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm (1993) and appeared in a second John Grisham story in 1996, playing a convict on death row in The Chamber.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

In 1996, he took a comedic turn as ultra-conservative Senator Kevin Keeley in The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. He also co-starred with Will Smith in the 1998 film Enemy of the State, where his character was reminiscent of the one from The Conversation.

He played a President of the United States who commits a murder in 1997's Absolute Power, re-teaming with director-star Clint Eastwood.

2000s

Hackman starred in the David Mamet crime film Heist as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job. He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field."⁶

Present

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three novels: Wake of the Perdido Star (1999), Justice for None (2004), and Escape from Andersonville (2008).

On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, in which he announced that he had no future film projects lined up, and believes his acting career is over. In 2008, while promoting his third novel, Hackman confirmed that he has retired from acting.⁷ His final film to date was Welcome to Mooseport, a comedy with Ray Romano in which Hackman portrayed a former President of the United States.

Personal life

Hackman's first wife was Faye Maltese. They had three children, Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean and Leslie Anne. The couple divorced in 1986 after 30 years of marriage. In 1991 Hackman married Betsy Arakawa. They live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Betsy is co-owner of an upscale retail home-furnishing store in Santa Fe called Pandora's, Inc.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1961	Mad Dog Coll	Policeman	uncredited
1964	Lilith	Norman
1966	Hawaii	Dr. John Whipple
1967	Banning	Tommy Del Gaddo
	Community Shelter Planning	Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer
	A Covenant with Death	Harmsworth
	First to Fight	Sgt. Tweed
	Bonnie & Clyde	Buck Barrow	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1968	The Split	Detective Lt. Walter Brill
1969	Riot	Red Fraker
	The Gypsy Moths	Joe Browdy
	Downhill Racer	Eugene Claire
	Marooned	Buzz Lloyd
1970	I Never Sang for My Father	Gene Garrison	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1971	Doctors' Wives	Dr. Dave Randolph
	The Hunting Party	Brandt Ruger
	The French Connection	Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award Golden Globe
1972	Prime Cut	Mary Ann
	The Poseidon Adventure	Reverend Frank Scott
	Cisco Pike	Sergeant Leo Holland
1973	Scarecrow	Max Millan
1974	The Conversation	Harry Caul	Nominated - BAFTA Award Nominated - Golden Globe
	Young Frankenstein	The Blindman (Harold)
	Zandy's Bride	Zandy Allan
1975	French Connection II	Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	Nominated - BAFTA Award Nominated - Golden Globe
	Lucky Lady	Kibby Womack
	Night Moves	Harry Moseby
	Bite the Bullet	Sam Clayton
1977	The Domino Principle	Roy Tucker
	A Bridge Too Far	Maj Gen. Stanisław Sosabowski
	March or Die	Maj. William Sherman Foster
1978	Superman	Lex Luthor	Nominated - BAFTA Award
1980	Superman II	Lex Luthor
1981	All Night Long	George Dupler
	Reds	Pete Van Wherry
1983	Under Fire	Alex Grazier	Nominated - Golden Globe
	Two of a Kind	God	uncredited voice role
	Uncommon Valor	Col. Cal Rhodes
1984	Eureka	Jack McCann
	Misunderstood	Ned Rawley
1985	Twice in a Lifetime	Harry MacKenzie	Nominated - Golden Globe
	Target	Walter Lloyd/Duncan (Duke) Potter
1986	Power	Wilfred Buckley
	Hoosiers	Coach Norman Dale
1987	No Way Out	Defense Secretary David Brice
	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	Lex Luthor / voice of Nuclear Man
1988	Bat*21	Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
	Mississippi Burning	Agent Rupert Anderson	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated - Golden Globe
	Another Woman	Larry Lewis
	Full Moon in Blue Water	Floyd
	Split Decisions	Dan McGuinn
1989	The Package	Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1990	Loose Cannons	MacArthur Stern
	Postcards from the Edge	Lowell Kolchek
	Narrow Margin	Robert Caulfield
1991	Class Action	Jedediah Tucker Ward
	Company Business	Sam Boyd
1992	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award Golden Globe
1993	The Firm	Avery Tolar
	Geronimo: An American Legend	Brig. Gen. George Crook
1994	Wyatt Earp	Nicholas Earp
1995	The Quick and the Dead	John Herod
	Crimson Tide	Capt. Frank Ramsey
	Get Shorty	Harry Zimm
1996	The Birdcage	Senator Kevin Keeley
	Extreme Measures	Dr. Lawrence Myrick
	The Chamber	Sam Cayhall
1997	Absolute Power	President Allen Richmond
1998	Twilight	Jack Ames
	Enemy of the State	Brill
	Antz	General Mandible	Voice Only
2000	Under Suspicion	Henry Hearst	Executive Producer
	The Replacements	Jimmy McGinty
2001	Heartbreakers	William B. Tensy
	Heist	Joe Moore
	The Mexican	Arnold Margolese (uncredited)
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Royal Tenenbaum	Golden Globe
	Behind Enemy Lines	Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart
2003	Runaway Jury	Rankin Fitch
2004	Welcome to Mooseport	Monroe Cole

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gene Hackman

• Gene Hackman at the Internet Movie Database
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• Gene Hackman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Gene Hackman at TV.com

Awards for Gene Hackman v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actor Maximilian Schell (1961) · Gregory Peck (1962) · Sidney Poitier (1963) · Rex Harrison (1964) · Lee Marvin (1965) · Paul Scofield (1966) · Rod Steiger (1967) · Cliff Robertson (1968) · John Wayne (1969) · George C. Scott (1970) · Gene Hackman (1971) · Marlon Brando (1972) · Jack Lemmon (1973) · Art Carney (1974) · Jack Nicholson (1975) · Peter Finch (1976) · Richard Dreyfuss (1977) · Jon Voight (1978) · Dustin Hoffman (1979) · Robert De Niro (1980) Complete List · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor John Gielgud (1981) · Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) · Jack Nicholson (1983) · Haing S. Ngor (1984) · Don Ameche (1985) · Michael Caine (1986) · Sean Connery (1987) · Kevin Kline (1988) · Denzel Washington (1989) · Joe Pesci (1990) · Jack Palance (1991) · Gene Hackman (1992) · Tommy Lee Jones (1993) · Martin Landau (1994) · Kevin Spacey (1995) · Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1996) · Robin Williams (1997) · James Coburn (1998) · Michael Caine (1999) · Benicio del Toro (2000) Complete list · (1936–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Maximilian Schell (1961) · Gregory Peck (1962) · Sidney Poitier (1963) · Peter O'Toole (1964) · Omar Sharif (1965) · Paul Scofield (1966) · Rod Steiger (1967) · Peter O'Toole (1968) · John Wayne (1969) · George C. Scott (1970) · Gene Hackman (1971) · Marlon Brando (1972) · Al Pacino (1973) · Jack Nicholson (1974) · Jack Nicholson (1975) · Peter Finch (1976) · Richard Burton (1977) · Jon Voight (1978) · Dustin Hoffman (1979) · Robert De Niro (1980) Complete List · (1943–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture John Gielgud (1981) · Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) · Jack Nicholson (1983) · Haing S. Ngor (1984) · Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) · Tom Berenger (1986) · Sean Connery (1987) · Martin Landau (1988) · Denzel Washington (1989) · Bruce Davison (1990) · Jack Palance (1991) · Gene Hackman (1992) · Tommy Lee Jones (1993) · Martin Landau (1994) · Brad Pitt (1995) · Edward Norton (1996) · Burt Reynolds (1997) · Ed Harris (1998) · Tom Cruise (1999) · Benicio del Toro (2000) Complete List · (1943–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Gene Hackman (2001) · Richard Gere (2002) · Bill Murray (2003) · Jamie Foxx (2004) · Joaquin Phoenix (2005) · Sacha Baron Cohen (2006) · Johnny Depp (2007) · Colin Farrell (2008) · Robert Downey, Jr. (2009) Complete List · (1950–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present)

Persondata
NAME	Hackman, Gene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hackman, Eugene Allen
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Bernardino, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH