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Gene Hackman
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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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Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Route 66
The F.B.I.
The Oscars
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
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
Bonnie and Clyde
Heartbreakers
Twilight
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Firm
Power
Wyatt Earp
Superman II
Superman
The Quick and the Dead
Runaway Jury
No Way Out
Riot
The Replacements
How Fast?
Downhill Racer
Get Shorty
Unforgiven
Behind Enemy Lines
The Birdcage
Crimson Tide
Under Suspicion
The Conversation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Uncommon Valor
Mississippi Burning
The French Connection
Target
Production Credits
Under Suspicion
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