Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

On January 13, 2012, Gene Hackman was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Islamorada, Florida.

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The celebration of Americana starred Frankenheimer regular Lancaster, reuniting him with From Here to Eternity co-star Deborah Kerr, and it also featured Gene Hackman.

Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

In the 1990s Raimi moved into other genres, directing such films as the western The Quick and the Dead ( starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman ), the critically acclaimed crime thriller A Simple Plan ( 1998 ) ( starring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton ), and the romantic drama For Love of the Game ( 1999 ) ( starring Kevin Costner ).

* Under Suspicion ( 2000 film ), a film starring Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman

** Gene Hackman, American actor

Hoffman began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, alongside future Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman.

Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury ( also 2003 ), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman ( with whom he had appeared in Unforgiven ).

The supporting cast of the film includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster and M. Emmet Walsh.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

* Eureka ( 1983 film ), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci

In 2001, she appeared in the comedy Heartbreakers playing the lead role of a con artist alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Gene Hackman and Anne Bancroft.

The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman.

Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman ) is a surveillance expert who runs his own company in San Francisco.

* Gene Hackman as Harry Caul

* Gene Hackman's brother, Richard Hackman, played two roles in the film, the priest in the confessional and a security guard.

The 1998 surveillance-corruption-thriller film Enemy of the State ( which also stars Gene Hackman ) has thematic connections to The Conversation.

The film features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, with Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans, and Mabel Cavitt.

Gene Hackman, who played Lex Luthor, refused to return for the reshoots, so Lester instead used a stunt double and an impersonator to loop Luthor's lines onto footage of Hackman shot by Donner.

Co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as archvillain Lex Luthor.

In 1978, Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ), portraying Mickey and was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), with Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman, as he would in the 1980 sequel, directed by Richard Lester, where we see his character being left behind in prison.

Mack enjoys the fact that her character was created specifically for the show, because she feels like she does not have to worry about being compared to someone else in the same role, which she likens to people comparing Michael Rosenbaum ’ s performance as Lex Luthor to Gene Hackman ’ s portrayal in the Superman film series of the 1970s – 1980s.

Adding up all these vocal appearances Clancy has made as Lex Luthor, Clancy Brown has played Lex Luthor longer than any other actor in history, even Gene Hackman who played Luthor in the first Superman film saga and his Justice League co-star Michael Rosenbaum who played Lex Luthor in Smallville.

When Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor cuts short the recitation, his assistant Miss Teshmocker, played by Valerie Perrine, protests, " I like Trees.

* The Legion of Doom was referenced in the animated series South Park episode " Krazy Kripples " featured Christopher Reeve ( who portrayed Superman in the movies ) forming his own version of the Legion of Doom, complete with the Hall of Doom as their headquarters ; its main goal, according to Reeve, was to kill Gene Hackman ( aka Lex Luthor in the movies: as a news reporter said " if irony were made out of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now ").

For the role of B. Z., the producers wanted a star with a similar stature to Gene Hackman when he had played Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie.

He eventually takes on the role of a supervillain, and is opposed by his archnemesis, Gene Hackman ( the actor who portrayed supervillain Lex Luthor, Superman's archnemesis, whom Reeve refers to as Hack Man ).

Marlon Brando would eventually be cast as Jor-El, causing Gene Hackman to be cast as Luthor as he wanted desperately to work with Brando.

* In " The Bizarro Jerry ", she dates Kevin, the nice, kind antithesis of Jerry whose friends Gene, Feldman and Vargas are polar opposites of George, Kramer and Newman, respectively, each described as coming from the backwards Bizarro World of Superman comics.

However, well-known actors may be given top billing for publicity or contractual purposes if juvenile, lesser-known, or first-time performers appear in a larger role: e. g., Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman were both credited before the title in Superman ( 1978 ), while Christopher Reeve, the then-unknown actor who played Superman, was not.

John F. Kennedy, Lord Kitchener, Karl Marx, Gene Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Ken Dodd, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Kaye, Kal-El ( Superman ), Boris Karloff ( as Frankenstein ), Krishna, King Kong, Martin Luther King, Jr., 2 Knights ( a pair of Keys on one of them ), a Kettle, Kali, the Kaiser, Nikita Khrushchev, Grace Kelly, the number 11 ( symbolizing K ) and Rudyard Kipling's book Kim.

Other productions for which he created flying sequences included I Love Lucy, Men Into Space, The Garry Moore Show, Hanna Barbera's Jack and the Beanstalk with Gene Kelly and The Flying Nun on television ; Fantastic Voyage, Funny Girl, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Hair and The Wiz in movies ; It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman, Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, The Who's Tommy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America, The Lion King, Disney's Aida, and Dracula, the Musical on Broadway ; and touring productions of the Ice Capades.

The A & E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, and Santa Claus.

Star Trek: Phase II was a planned television series based on the characters of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, which had run from 1966 to 1969.

Hillman and Ward II Alderman Gene Newkirk will be leaving city government following the results of the August 2010 elections.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and audiences towards Rocky II and the production team's " quality control " of that film.

Pat Buttram was picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the Army Air Force, to work with him.

Gene Autry was the first of the singing cowboys in films, but was succeeded as the top star by Roy Rogers when he served in World War II.

But later Gene got even when he had Mariette expose not one but two belly buttons in the sci-fi film Genesis II ( 1973 ).

When Gene Roddenberry was planning his new series Star Trek: Phase II in the 1970s, and after it was learned that Leonard Nimoy would not return as Spock, Roddenberry created a new male Vulcan character to take Spock's place.

Karn's father, Gene, was a Seabee who served in World War II.

* Genesis II ( film ), a 1973 science fiction TV movie created and produced by Gene Roddenberry

The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

In II, he escapes from the asylum in which he is placed and steals the identity of a man named Gene Clifford after reading his obituary in a local newspaper.

* Stepfather II ( 1989 ) ... as Dr. Gene Clifford / The Stepfather

Gene Brewer ( born 1937 ) is the author of the K-PAX series of novels: K-PAX, K-PAX II, K-PAX III, K-PAX IV and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in the K-PAX trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books.

Gene Coon served in the United States Marine Corps for four years during and after World War II, seeing combat in the Pacific theater and serving in China and in occupied Japan.

Checker's releases cover a wide-range of genres including blues ( Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II ), rhythm and blues ( Sax Mallard, Jimmy McCracklin ), doo-wop ( The Flamingos, The Moonglows ), gospel ( Aretha Franklin, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi ), rock and roll ( Bo Diddley, Dale Hawkins ), and soul ( Gene Chandler ).

Cassidy did more work with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the early 1970s, playing Isiah in the pilots of the post-apocalyptic dramas Genesis II and Planet Earth.

Eugene " Gene " Victor Hoglan II ( born August 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas ) is an American drummer.

Weekend at Bernie's II appears as a comedy choice ( a " Gene pick ") in the Seinfeld episode " The Comeback " in the segment " Vincent's picks " when Kramer convinces Elaine to rent this movie instead of another arthouse " pick " by Vincent, her romantic interest.

The university holds the record as the Division II school with the most professional athletes signed by teams in the NFL, including Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Gene Upshaw, Darrell Green, and John Randle.

In 2004, the NCAA Division II sports information directors awarded the first Gene Upshaw Division II Lineman of the Year award.

On a subsequent visit to the video store, Kramer convinces Elaine to forego Vincent's pick in favor of a Gene pick, Weekend at Bernie's II.

Jerry Mulligan ( Gene Kelly ), an American World War II veteran, is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter.