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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Hackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Hackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tony Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
Route 66
The F.B.I.
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
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
The Hollywood Greats
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
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Heartbreakers
Bonnie and Clyde
The Firm
Superman
Twilight
Wyatt Earp
Superman II
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Power
Runaway Jury
Downhill Racer
The Quick and the Dead
Crimson Tide
The Birdcage
Behind Enemy Lines
Get Shorty
No Way Out
The Replacements
Riot
How Fast?
Unforgiven
The Royal Tenenbaums
Under Suspicion
The Conversation
Uncommon Valor
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Target
Mississippi Burning
The French Connection
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Under Suspicion
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