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 ...

Turns out, that although he was very much a rich man, Hackman was not on the same level as his billionaire alter-ego, 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 ...

(CNN) — Gene Hackman knew how ... Leaning into crime also helped Hackman with what many may consider an unexpected role for the actor. As villain Lex Luthor, often referred to as “the greatest ...