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Gene Hackman

Birth date: 30.01.1930

A child of a broken home, Gene Hackman left home at 16 for a three-year hitch with the Marines. Moving to New York after being discharged, he worked in a number of menial jobs before studying journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill at the University of Illinois. Hackman would be over 30 years old when he finally decided to take his chance at acting by enrolling 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 and off-Broadway. In 1964 he was cast as the young suitor in the Broadway stage play "Any Wednesday." This role would lead to him being cast in the small role of Norman in Lilith (1964), starring Warren Beatty. When Beatty was casting for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), he cast Hackman as Buck Barrow, Clyde's brother. That role earned Hackman a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, an award for which he would again be nominated in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In 1972 he won the Oscar for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971). At 40 years old, Hackman was a Hollywood star whose work would rise to the heights with Night Moves (1975) and Bite the Bullet (1975) or fall to the depths with The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Eureka (1984). Hackman is a versatile actor who can play comedy (the blind man in Young Frankenstein (1974)) or villainy t(he evil Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)). He is the doctor who puts his work above people in Extreme Measures (1996) and the captain on the edge of nuclear destruction in Crimson Tide (1995). After initially turning down the role of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992), Hackman finally accepted it as a different slant on the western that interested him. For his performance he won the Oscar and Golden Globe and decided that he wasn't tired of westerns after all. He has since appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994) and The Quick and the Dead (1995).

Filmography

# Dirty Harry (2007) (VG) (pre-production) (voice) .... Al Bressler # Welcome to Mooseport (2004) .... Monroe Cole # Runaway Jury (2003) .... Rankin Fitch # Behind Enemy Lines (2001) .... Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart # The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) .... Royal Tenenbaum # Heist (2001/I) .... Joe Moore ... aka Vol, Le (Canada: French title) # Heartbreakers (2001) .... William B. Tensy # The Mexican (2001) .... Arnold Margolese ... aka Mexicana, La (Mexico) # The Replacements (2000) .... Jimmy McGinty # Under Suspicion (2000) .... Henry Hearst ... aka Suspicion (France) # Enemy of the State (1998) .... Edward 'Brill' Lyle # Antz (1998) (voice) .... General Mandible # Twilight (1998) .... Jack Ames # Absolute Power (1997) .... President Allen Richmond # The Chamber (1996) .... Sam Cayhall # Extreme Measures (1996) .... Dr. Lawrence Myrick # The Birdcage (1996) .... Sen. Kevin Keeley ... aka Birds of a Feather # Get Shorty (1995) .... Harry Zimm # Crimson Tide (1995) .... Capt. Frank Ramsey # The Quick and the Dead (1995) .... John Herod # Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Nicholas Earp # Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) .... Brig. Gen. George Crook # The Firm (1993) .... Avery Tolar # Unforgiven (1992) .... Little Bill Daggett # Company Business (1991) .... Sam Boyd # Class Action (1991) .... Jedediah Tucker Ward # Narrow Margin (1990) .... Robert Caulfield # Postcards from the Edge (1990) .... Lowell # Loose Cannons (1990) .... MacArthur Stern # The Package (1989) .... Sgt. Johnny Gallagher # Mississippi Burning (1988) .... Agent Rupert Anderson # Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) .... Floyd # Split Decisions (1988) .... Dan McGuinn ... aka Kid Gloves (USA) # Another Woman (1988) .... Larry Lewis # Bat*21 (1988) .... Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton # No Way Out (1987) .... Defense Secretary David Brice # Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) .... Lex Luthor/voice of Nuclear Man # Hoosiers (1986) .... Coach Norman Dale ... aka Best Shot # Power (1986) .... Wilfred Buckley # Target (1985) .... Walter Lloyd/Duncan (Duke) Potter # Twice in a Lifetime (1985) .... Harry MacKenzie # Eureka (1984) .... Jack McCann # Misunderstood (1984) .... Ned Rawley ... aka Ultimo sole d'estate, L' (Italy) # Two of a Kind (1983) (uncredited) .... Voice of God # Uncommon Valor (1983) .... Col. Cal Rhodes # Under Fire (1983) .... Alex Grazier # Reds (1981) .... Pete Van Wherry # All Night Long (1981) .... George Dupler # Superman II (1980) .... Lex Luthor # Superman (1978) .... Lex Luthor ... aka Superman: The Movie # March or Die (1977) .... Maj. William Sherman Foster # The Domino Principle (1977) .... Roy Tucker ... aka The Domino Killings (UK) # A Bridge Too Far (1977) .... Maj. Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski # Lucky Lady (1975) .... Kibby Womack # Bite the Bullet (1975) .... Sam Clayton # Night Moves (1975) .... Harry Moseby # French Connection II (1975) .... Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle # Young Frankenstein (1974) .... The Blindman (Harold) # Zandy's Bride (1974) .... Zandy Allan ... aka For Better, for Worse (USA: TV title) # The Conversation (1974) .... Harry Caul # Scarecrow (1973) .... Max Millan # The Poseidon Adventure (1972) .... Rev. Frank Scott # Prime Cut (1972) .... Mary Ann # Cisco Pike (1972) .... Sergeant Leo Holland # The French Connection (1971) .... Det. Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle # The Hunting Party (1971) .... Brandt Ruger # Doctors' Wives (1971) .... Dr. Dave Randolph # I Never Sang for My Father (1970) .... Gene Garrison # Marooned (1969) .... Buzz Lloyd ... aka Space Travelers (USA: reissue title) # Downhill Racer (1969) .... Eugene Claire # The Gypsy Moths (1969) .... Joe Browdy # Riot (1969) .... Red Fraker # Shadow on the Land (1968) (TV) .... Rev. Thomas Davis # The Split (1968) .... Detective Lt. Walter Brill # "I Spy" - Happy Birthday... Everybody (1968) TV Episode .... Frank Hunter # My Father and My Mother (1968) (TV) .... Ned ... aka CBS Playhouse: My Father and My Mother (USA: series title) # Banning (1967) .... Tommy Del Gaddo # "The Iron Horse" - Leopards Try, But Leopards Can't (1967) TV Episode .... Harry Wadsworth # "The Invaders" - The Spores (1967) TV Episode .... Tom Jessup/Invader # Bonnie and Clyde (1967) .... Buck Barrow ... aka Bonnie and Clyde... Were Killers! (UK) # Community Shelter Planning (1967) .... Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer # A Covenant with Death (1967) .... Harmsworth # First to Fight (1967) .... Sgt. Tweed # "The F.B.I." - The Courier (1967) TV Episode .... Herb Kenyon # Hawaii (1966) .... Rev. John Whipple # "Hawk" - Do Not Mutilate or Spindle (1966) TV Episode .... Houston Worth # "The Trials of O'Brien" - The Only Game in Town (1966) TV Episode .... Roger Nathan # Lilith (1964) .... Norman # "East Side/West Side" - Creeps Live Here (1963) TV Episode .... Police Officer # "The DuPont Show of the Week" - Ride with Terror (1963) TV Episode .... Douglas McCann # Ride with Terror (1963) (TV) # "Route 66" - Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride (1963) TV Episode .... Motorist # "The Defenders" - Judgment Eve (1963) TV Episode .... Guard - Quality of Mercy (1961) TV Episode .... Jerry Warner # "Naked City" - Prime of Life (1963) TV Episode # "The United States Steel Hour" ... aka The U.S. Steel Hour (USA: alternative title) - Far from the Shade Tree (1962) TV Episode .... Ed - Bride of the Fox (1960) TV Episode - Big Doc's Girl (1959) TV Episode .... Reverend MacCreighton - The Pink Burro (1959) TV Episode .... Steve - Little Tin God (1959) TV Episode .... Joey Carlton # Mad Dog Coll (1961) (uncredited) .... Cop # "Look Up and Live" - The End of the Story (????) TV Episode .... Frank Collins