Gene Hackman Biography
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992).
He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988).
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Gene Hackman Movies
Gene Hackman Quotes
Driving Responsibilities in Uncertain Times
Chris Lloyd:
Look, I don't know who you were in the old days but don't you think I should do the driving now?
Walter Lloyd:
Just don't worry, okay? I think I can handle it.
Chris Lloyd:
Alright. Here we go to Hamburg at 20 miles an hour.
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Conflict Over Agent's Family Rules
Walter Lloyd:
You know the rule as well as I do: an agent's family was sacred.
Schroeder:
And you broke that rule!
Walter Lloyd:
No! Not me, not my people. I checked them out, every one of them. I held my own investigation.
Schroeder:
I evacuate myself on your investigation!
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