Gene Hackman AKA Eugene Allen Hackman Born: 30-Jan-1930 Birthplace: San Bernardino, CA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Conversation Military service: US Marine Corps (1946-49) Gene Hackman made his name playing tough guys, spies, and smooth villains, and won Oscars playing the drug warrior Popeye Doyle in The French Connection and the sadistic, smiling sheriff in Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood.
Hackman's father abandoned the family when he was 12, and his mother was an alcoholic, leaving their son to be raised mostly by his maternal grandmother. He was briefly jailed as a juvenile for shoplifting, then dropped out of school, ran away at 16 and, lying about his age, joined the Marines. After his tour of duty, he used the GI Bill to study journalism and TV production, and worked as a radio announcer, shoe salesman, and truck driver until, reassessing his life as his 30th birthday approached, he decided to try becoming an actor.
He enrolled for acting classes, became fast friends and eventually roomed with classmate Dustin Hoffman, and soon found a few stage and television roles. In his first, brief screen appearance, he played a policeman in 1961's Mad Dog Coll with Jerry Orbach. He made his Broadway debut opposite Peggy Cass in Children From Their Games, which closed two days after it opened, but by the mid-1960s he was working steadily in a succession of Broadway plays. His first substantial film role was in the drama of mental illness Lilith with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty, and his first critical acclaim came with his Oscar-nominated role as Beatty's brother in Bonnie and Clyde.
Among his other famous roles, he played the bug-master in The Conversation with John Cazale, the ordinary hero of the cheesy Poseidon Adventure with Shelley Winters, a campy Lex Luthor in Superman with Christopher Reeve, the perfect high school basketball coach in Hoosiers with Barbara Hershey, the sly Secretary of Defense in No Way Out with Kevin Costner, an untalented filmmaker in Get Shorty with John Travolta, a rogue spy in Enemy of the State with Will Smith, and the patriarch of a wildly dysfunctional family in The Royal Tenenbaums with Owen Wilson. Now semi-retired, Hackman's last film was the rather embarrassing Welcome to Mooseport with Ray Romano. Working with archeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has co-written a few novels.
In 2001, Hackman was involved in a very minor fender-bender in Los Angeles. Witnesses said that when the two drivers emerged from their cars to exchange information, the driver of the other vehicle was belligerent, and became more and more angry over several minutes, finally shoving the 71-year-old Hackman. According to the police report, Hackman responded by pummeling the other driver with a half-dozen blows before the two men were restrained. No charges were filed.
His mother burned to death in 1962 when, drunk and smoking in bed, she fell asleep and her cigarette ignited the mattress. Father: Eugene Ezra Hackman (newspaper pressman) Mother: Lyda Gray Brother: Richard Hackman (b. 1942) Wife: Fay Maltese (bank clerk, dated 1953-56, m. 1-Jan-1956, sep. 1982, div. 1986, two daughters, one son) Daughter: Elizabeth Hackman Son: Christopher Hackman (b. 1960) Daughter: Leslie Hackman Wife: Betsy Arakawa (health club worker, cohabited 1984-91, m. Dec-1991)
University: Journalism, University of Illinois Conservatory: Art Students League of New York
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Oscar for Best Actor 1972 for The French Connection Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 1993 for Unforgiven Golden Globe 1972 for The French Connection Golden Globe 1993 for Unforgiven Golden Globe 2002 for The Royal Tenenbaums Heart Attack 1990 Angioplasty 1990
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Birth of the Living Dead (18-Oct-2013) · Himself I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (16-Jan-2009) · Himself Welcome to Mooseport (20-Feb-2004) · Monroe Runaway Jury (9-Oct-2003) · Rankin Fitch Behind Enemy Lines (17-Nov-2001) The Royal Tenenbaums (5-Oct-2001) Heist (10-Sep-2001) · Joe Moore Heartbreakers (23-Mar-2001) The Replacements (7-Aug-2000) Under Suspicion (11-May-2000) · Henry Hearst Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (Jan-1999) · Himself [VOICE] Enemy of the State (16-Nov-1998) · Edward "Brill" Lyle Antz (19-Sep-1998) · Mandible [VOICE] Twilight (6-Mar-1998) · Jack Ames Absolute Power (14-Feb-1997) · President Richmond Extreme Measures (27-Sep-1996) · Dr. Lawrence Myrick The Birdcage (8-Mar-1996) · Sen. Keeley The Chamber (14-Feb-1996) · Sam Cayhall Get Shorty (20-Oct-1995) · Harry Zimm Crimson Tide (12-May-1995) The Quick and the Dead (10-Feb-1995) · Herod Wyatt Earp (24-Jun-1994) Geronimo: An American Legend (10-Dec-1993) The Firm (30-Jun-1993) Unforgiven (3-Aug-1992) Company Business (6-Sep-1991) · Sam Boyd Class Action (15-Mar-1991) Narrow Margin (21-Sep-1990) Postcards from the Edge (12-Sep-1990) · Lowell Loose Cannons (9-Feb-1990) The Package (25-Aug-1989) · Johnny Gallagher Mississippi Burning (9-Dec-1988) · Anderson Full Moon in Blue Water (23-Nov-1988) Another Woman (18-Nov-1988) · Larry Split Decisions (11-Nov-1988) · Dan McGuinn Bat * 21 (21-Oct-1988) No Way Out (14-Aug-1987) · David Brice Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (24-Jul-1987) · Lex Luthor [VOICE] Hoosiers (14-Nov-1986) · Coach Norman Dale Power (9-May-1986) Target (8-Nov-1985) Twice in a Lifetime (9-Sep-1985) Eureka (Oct-1984) · Jack McCann Misunderstood (30-Mar-1984) Uncommon Valor (16-Dec-1983) · Col. Rhodes Under Fire (21-Oct-1983) · Alex Grazier Reds (3-Dec-1981) · Pete Van Wherry Superman II (19-Jun-1981) · Lex Luthor All Night Long (6-Mar-1981) Superman (15-Dec-1978) · Lex Luthor March or Die (5-Aug-1977) · Maj. William Sherman Foster The Domino Principle (25-Jul-1977) A Bridge Too Far (15-Jun-1977) Lucky Lady (25-Dec-1975) Bite the Bullet (20-Jun-1975) · Sam Clayton Night Moves (11-Jun-1975) · Harry Moseby French Connection II (21-May-1975) Young Frankenstein (15-Dec-1974) · Blindman Zandy's Bride (19-May-1974) · Zandy Allan The Conversation (7-Apr-1974) · Harry Caul Scarecrow (31-Aug-1973) · Max Millan The Poseidon Adventure (12-Dec-1972) · Rev. Scott Prime Cut (28-Jun-1972) Cisco Pike (14-Jan-1972) The French Connection (7-Oct-1971) · Jimmy Doyle The Hunting Party (16-Jul-1971) Doctors' Wives (3-Feb-1971) I Never Sang for My Father (18-Oct-1970) · Gene Garrison Marooned (10-Nov-1969) · Buzz Lloyd Downhill Racer (6-Nov-1969) The Gypsy Moths (28-Aug-1969) · Joe Browdy Riot (15-Jan-1969) The Split (4-Nov-1968) · Lt. Walter Brill Banning (13-Dec-1967) Bonnie and Clyde (13-Aug-1967) · Buck Barrow A Covenant with Death (15-Feb-1967) First to Fight (25-Jan-1967) · Sgt. Tweed Hawaii (10-Oct-1966) Lilith (20-Sep-1964) · Norman
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