
Gene Hackman
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Biography
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 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).
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The F.B.I.

Golden Globe Awards

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Route 66

Entertainment Tonight

CBS Playhouse

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Insight

The Trials of O'Brien

The DuPont Show of the Week

The Defenders

Two of a Kind

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Reds

Earth and the American Dream

Young Frankenstein

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Oscars

Heartbreakers

Bonnie and Clyde

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Superman II

Power

Twilight

The Firm

Superman

Wyatt Earp

Runaway Jury

Crimson Tide

No Way Out

Downhill Racer

How Fast?

Unforgiven

Riot

The Birdcage

Behind Enemy Lines

Get Shorty

The Replacements

The Quick and the Dead

Target

The Royal Tenenbaums

Uncommon Valor

Mississippi Burning

The Conversation

Under Suspicion

The French Connection
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