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Eugene Allen Hackman [1] [2] [3] (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Silver Bear.
Gene Hackman (born 1930), retired actor and novelist; Phil Hendrie (born 1952), radio personality and comedian [10] Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (born 1972), actor, semi-retired WWE wrestler, and producer; Angelina Jolie (born 1975), actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian; one-quarter Canadian through her maternal grandfather
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor Gene Hackman. For his role in The French Connection, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He won all three awards again for his role in Unforgiven. In 2003, he won the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle is a fictional character portrayed by actor Gene Hackman in the films The French Connection (1971) and its sequel, French Connection II (1975), and by Ed O'Neill in the 1986 television film Popeye Doyle. Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The French Connection.
He then revealed that he was actually referring to Gene Hackman, who played Lex Luthor in Richard Donner’s 1978 film Superman and its 1980 sequel Superman II.
He agreed to a pay cut to enable Gene Hackman to co-star in the film. [83] Against his wishes, Reeves starred in the thriller The Watcher (2000), playing a serial killer who stalks a retired FBI agent. He said that a friend forged his signature on a contract, which he could not prove; he appeared in the film to avoid legal action. [93]
Gene Hackman stars in William Friedkin's 1971 classic, The French Connection, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.(Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection ...
Gene Hackman plays Rupert Anderson, an FBI agent and former Mississippi sheriff. [14] Brian Dennehy was briefly considered for the role [19] before Orion suggested Hackman. [14] As the script was being written, Parker frequently discussed the project with Hackman. [13] Hackman said that "it felt right to do something of historical import.