"I pity directors who work with me," Hackman (here in 1969) once said with a laugh. - Credit: Santi Visalli/Getty Images If there’s a moment that sums up the genius of Gene Hackman, it’s in ...

If there’s a moment that sums up the genius of Gene Hackman ... he was a character actor. “The world ‘character’ denotes something less than attractive,” Hackman told Film Comment ...

Hackman's hard-edged screen persona made him ideal for the intelligent but ruthless characters in film adaptations of John ...

"He loved being an actor, and hated all the stuff that surrounds being an actor." That, for film director Barry Sonnenfeld, is how he'll remember Gene Hackman, who has died at the age of 95. The ...

Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde (1967 ... Andersonville Confederate prison during the Civil War. Hackman was a great actor. Various factors made that possible. He knew something of life ...

World-renowned actor Gene Hackman was found dead on Wednesday alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, late last night in their New Mexico home. The two-time Oscar winner was 95 years old. Hackman as ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was known for his decades-long film career through "The French Connection," "Bonnie and Clyde," "Superman: The Movie" and more, but he had an impressive stint as ...

Once you revisit the major Hackman works – "The French Connection," "Superman," "Crimson Tide," "Unforgiven" – check out some of these smaller but still great ... Gene Hackman was more than an ...

Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks and more are paying tribute to Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, "one of the true giants of the ...

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – While Gene Hackman's longtime business partner Dough Lanham awaits answers regarding the legendary actor's mysterious ... and I said ‘Oh, great. What table are they?’ ...