Gene Hackman's biography

Gene Hackman is 92 years old film actor born at San Bernardino. He was born on Thursday 30th of January 1930. According to year of birth 1930 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 30th of January means he is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.He was married 2 times.

Gene Hackman's spouse

He is married to Betsy Arakawa

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as racing automobile driver. He is recently known as author. He received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Unforgiven in 1992

Gene Hackman's family

Gene Hackman's spouse

Gene Hackman's ex spouses

Faye Maltese

Gene Hackman and Faye Maltese have been together since 1956 for 30 years.

Gene Hackman's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Pasadena Playhouse, Art Students League of New York, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Danville High School.

Gene Hackman's career

His main focus is to be film actor. You could see him also in Unforgiven, The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, The Royal Tenenbaums and many more.

Awards and competitions

Gene Hackman's Awards

He received award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Unforgiven in 1992
He received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work The French Connection in 1971
He received award for Silver Bear for Best Actor for work Mississippi Burning in 1989
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work The French Connection in 1973
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for work Unforgiven in 1993
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for work Unforgiven in 1992
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work The French Connection in 1971

Gene Hackman's Rankings

His performance as Harry Caul in The Conversation (1974) is ranked #37 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Gene Hackman's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Bonnie and Clyde in 1967
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor

What Gene Hackman has done for a first time

Was the first choice to play Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969).
Was the first choice to play Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Runaway Jury (2003) was the first time he and former roommate Dustin Hoffman performed on the screen together.
Met actor Dustin Hoffman in the first month at Pasadena Playhouse. Had several classes with him.
Turned down the role of Sheriff Teasle in First Blood (1982).

Gene Hackman's quotes

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
[on aging] It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
[on accepting his Best Actor Oscar] I wish all five of us could be up here, I really do.
If I start to become a "star", I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
[on seeing Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and becoming determined to be an actor] He made it seem something natural.
I wanted to act, but I'd always been convinced that actors had to be handsome. That came from the days when Errol Flynn was my idol. I'd come out of a theater and be startled when I looked in a mirror because I didn't look like Flynn. I felt like him.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
People in the street still call me Popeye, and The French Connection (1971) was 15 years ago. I wish I could have a new hit and another nickname.
When you're on top, you get a sense of immortality. You feel you can do no wrong, that it will always be good no matter what the role. Well, in truth, that feeling is death. You must be honest with yourself.
[In a 2011 GQ interview, when asked if he would ever come out of retirement and make another film] I don't know. If I could do it in my own house, maybe, without them disturbing anything and just one or two people.
[on making The French Connection (1971)] I found out very quickly that I am not a violent person. And these cops are surrounded by violence all the time. There were a couple of days when I wanted to get out of the picture.
(2011, on how he'd like to be remembered) As a decent actor. As someone who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest fashion. I don't know, beyond that. I don't think about that often, to be honest. I'm at an age where I should think about it.
I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
[on whether he will ever come out of retirement and act again] Only in reruns. Yeah, that's it. I'm at a place where I feel very good about not having to work all night.
[on writing novels] With me it takes quite a long time, at least a year maybe a little more by the time I go through two or three edits, professional edits, but it's still fun because it's always a challenge.
Our dreams are usually limited by some kind of reality check and because a guy thinks because he can pluck a guitar a couple of strokes he thinks he's going to be Elvis Presley or whoever.
[beginning his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, when he won Best Supporting Actor for Unforgiven (1992) thinking he wouldn't win] Heck, I've just lost a hundred bucks.
(On missing the lead role in Klute (1971)) I wanted it desperately but Jane Fonda vetoed me.
(On turning down the role of Lips Manlis in Dick Tracy (1990)) I'd just come off a picture a couple days before and was starting another in three days. I was just too tired.
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
I don't like to talk about myself that much.
My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
I'm not a sentimental guy.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

Gene Hackman's body shape

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