Legendary actor Gene Hackman has passed away, and a recurring theme in a number of the tributes to the two-time Academy Award-winning actor was to highlight how his depiction of Lex Luthor in the ...

With a distinctive gravelly voice and magnetic screen presence, Gene Hackman, who has died aged ... But whether he was the comically villainous Lex Luthor in "Superman" (1978), the world-weary ...

American actor Gene Hackman, one of the finest performers ... Following his lucrative appearance as Lex Luthor in Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) and Superman II (1980, whose scenes he filmed ...

For five decades, Gene Hackman was a movie icon. He starred in films such as “The French Connection,” “The Conversation,” the original Superman movies as villain Lex Luthor, the ...

including as Lex Luthor in two “Superman” movies. As a newsroom wag joked this week: “Is Gene Hackman the only San Bernardino native who’s tried to kill Superman?” Almost certainly.

It felt like he could turn himself into almost anyone. Gene Hackman played Superman's arch-villain, Lex Luthor, with a comic glint. "There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman," he tells ...