Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman
1931 -
American born San Bernardino, California

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m) . 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). Spouse
Betsy Arakawa (December 1991 - present), Fay Maltese (1 January 1956 - 1986) (divorced) 3 children.

Dirty Harry (2007) , Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) , Welcome to Mooseport (2004) , Runaway Jury (2003) , Behind Enemy Lines (2001) , The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) , Heist (2001/I) , Heartbreakers (2001) , The Mexican (2001) , The Replacements (2000) , Under Suspicion (2000) , Enemy of the State (1998) , Antz (1998) , Twilight (1998) , Absolute Power (1997) , The Chamber (1996) , Extreme Measures (1996) , The Birdcage (1996) , Get Shorty (1995) , Crimson Tide (1995) , The Quick and the Dead (1995) , Wyatt Earp (1994) , Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) , The Firm (1993) , Unforgiven (1992) , Company Business (1991) , Class Action (1991) , Narrow Margin (1990) , Postcards from the Edge (1990) , Loose Cannons (1990) , The Package (1989) , Mississippi Burning (1988) , Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) , Split Decisions (1988) , Another Woman (1988), Bat*21 (1988) , No Way Out (1987) , Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) , Hoosiers (1986) , Power (1986) , Target (1985) , Twice in a Lifetime (1985) , Eureka (1984) , Misunderstood (1984) , Two of a Kind (1983) , Uncommon Valor (1983) , Under Fire (1983) , Reds (1981) , All Night Long (1981) , Superman II (1980) , Superman (1978) , March or Die (1977) , A Bridge Too Far (1977) , The Domino Principle (1977) , Lucky Lady (1975) , Bite the Bullet (1975) , Night Moves (1975) , French Connection II (1975) , Young Frankenstein (1974) , Zandy's Bride (1974) , The Conversation (1974) , Scarecrow (1973) , The Poseidon Adventure (1972) , Prime Cut (1972) , Cisco Pike (1972) , The French Connection (1971) , The Hunting Party (1971) , Doctors' Wives (1971) , I Never Sang for My Father (1970) , Marooned (1969) , Downhill Racer (1969) , The Gypsy Moths (1969) , Riot (1969) , Shadow on the Land (1968) , The Split (1968) , "I Spy" (1968) , My Father and My Mother (1968) , Banning (1967) , "The Iron Horse" (1967) , "The Invaders" (1967) , Bonnie and Clyde (1967) , Community Shelter Planning (1967) , A Covenant with Death (1967) , First to Fight (1967) , "The F.B.I." (1967) , Hawaii (1966) , Hawk" (1966) , "The Trials of O'Brien" (1966) , Lilith (1964) , "East Side/West Side" (1963) , "The DuPont Show of the Week" (1963) , Ride with Terror (1963) , "Route 66" (1963) , "The Defenders" (1963) , "Naked City" (1963) , "The United States Steel Hour" (1962) , Mad Dog Coll (1961) , "Look Up and Live" (????)