Gene Hackman
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Best films:
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971) Tony Scott's Enemy of the State (1998) Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988) | Links: |
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Gene Hackman (1930), born and raised in Los Angeles, was a marine for four years
and then started acting in 1956 at the
Pasadena Playhouse where Dustin Hoffman was also performing.
The two moved to New York and became Broadway actors.
Despite minor roles in films, Hackman was much more successful in theater until
William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971) and
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), two films that
established his persona of independent anti-establishment loner, a role
that he reprised in
Tony Scott's Enemy of the State (1998).
He also gave great performances in
Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988),
Clint Eastwood's
Unforgiven (1992) and
Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995).
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