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Gene Hackman

1930 - Today

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Eugene Allen Hackman (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. Hackman's two Academy Award wins included one for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971) and the other for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Little" Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gene Hackman has received more than 16,498,202 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Gene Hackman is the 137th most popular actor (up from 153rd in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from United States (up from 281st in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Actor.

Gene Hackman is most famous for his role as Roy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 film The French Connection.

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  • 4.95

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  • 5.43

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gene Hackman ranks 137 out of 13,578. Before him are Dianne Wiest, Salman Khan, Bruno Ganz, Donald Sutherland, Irene Papas, and Gary Cooper. After him are Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Madden, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, and Robert Duvall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gene Hackman ranks 20. Before him are Hafez al-Assad, Baudouin of Belgium, Steve McQueen, Buzz Aldrin, Salvatore Riina, and Pete Conrad. After him are Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Tu Youyou, Richard Harris, Ion Iliescu, and Maximilian Schell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Hackman ranks 264 out of 20,380. Before him are Dianne Wiest (1946), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Pete Conrad (1930), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), and Gary Cooper (1901). After him are James Brown (1933), Jesse Owens (1913), 50 Cent (1975), James A. Garfield (1831), Robert F. Kennedy (1925), and Edward Thorndike (1874).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gene Hackman ranks 67. Before him are Charlton Heston (1923), Robert Forster (1941), Joe Pesci (1943), Lee Van Cleef (1925), Dianne Wiest (1946), and Gary Cooper (1901). After him are Robert Duvall (1931), Susan Sarandon (1946), Leonardo DiCaprio (1974), Gloria Stuart (1910), Tony Curtis (1925), and Orson Welles (1915).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Oct 5o 20017.486 / 10
Unforgiven
'Little' Bill Daggett
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Aug 7o 19927.9 / 10
Superman
Lex Luthor
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Dec 14o 19787.1 / 10