In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career ; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

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

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up in nearby Westport, Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of The Poseidon Adventure ( opposite Gene Hackman ) at the age of 19.

After this tour, Vollmer and Hackman began writing songs with the intention of Hackman's material being used for the next Helix release, and Vollmer's going towards a solo album.

In the Michael Apted film Class Action ( 1991 ) with Gene Hackman, Hicks is seen performing with Eisenberg and Price at Rosatti's in San Francisco.

For the next several years he worked steadily in commercials and on stage with emerging talents like Robert Drivas, Gene Hackman, Doris Roberts and Brenda Vaccaro and established stars such as Eileen Heckart, Jason Robards, Christopher Plummer, and Roddy McDowall.

* The course was one of several featured in the 1969 movie Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman. Redford's character challenges his rival teammate to a dual race at the end of practice on the Lauberhorn downhill course.

Schae has also appeared in several the feature films including Twice in a Lifetime, with Gene Hackman and Ann-Margret as well as starring as Zachary Ty Bryan's mother in the Disney feature Magic Island.

* The Streif course was one of several featured in the 1969 movie Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman. It was shown as itself and later as the Olympic course.

Clark had leading roles in several films, including Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood in 1968, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here with Robert Redford in 1969, Valdez Is Coming with Burt Lancaster in 1971, Night Moves with Gene Hackman in 1975, the disaster film Airport 1975, and another disaster film City on Fire with Barry Newman, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters.

William Charles Anderson ( better known as William C. Anderson ) ( May 7, 1920, La Junta, Colorado – May 16, 2003, in Fairfield, California ) was the author of more than twenty novels, historical and true life stories, and author or coauthor of several screenplays for film and television, including the adaptation of his own Bat * 21, which was made into a film, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, and Hurricane Hunters, was made into a TV-movie for ABC, starring Martin Milner.

Marcel Bozzuffi, who plays the thug Angorapoulos, is best known as the hitman pursued in the famous car chase and shot by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.

* The scene involving Mary Ann at the end was adapted somewhat in the 1992 movie Unforgiven, written by David Webb Peoples and directed by Clint Eastwood, in which Hackman plays a villain who taunts his killer while lying wounded on his back after a gun battle.

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

Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda ( née Gray ) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.

At sixteen years, Hackman left home to join the United States Marine Corps, where he served four-and-a-half years as a field radio operator.

Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, Hackman and Hoffman were later voted " The Least Likely To Succeed.

" Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman hopped on a bus bound for New York City.

A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described how Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall were all struggling actors and close friends while living in New York City in the 1960s.

Hackman was working as a doorman when he ran into an instructor whom he had despised at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Reinforcing " The Least Likely To Succeed " vote, the man had said, " See, Hackman, I told you you wouldn't amount to anything.

In 1967, Hackman appeared in an episode of the television series The Invaders entitled The Spores.

That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein.

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

By the end of the 1980s, Hackman alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning another Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning.

During this decade Hackman also could be seen in Reds, Under Fire, Hoosiers, Power, Uncommon Valor and Bat * 21.

Hackman co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm ( 1993 ) and appeared in a second John Grisham story in 1996, playing a convict on death row in The Chamber.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

Hackman starred in the David Mamet crime film Heist, as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job and the comedy Heartbreakers alongside Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his " outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, in which Hackman announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believes his acting career is over.

His health began to fail, and he died at Marseille, in the famous " Lycée Thiers ", while performing a university inspection.

BDP as a group essentially ended because KRS-One began recording and performing under his own name rather than the group name.

Jefferson began playing the guitar in his early teens, and soon after he began performing at picnics and parties.

Love performing in London, England on her 43rd birthday ( 2007 ). With Hole in disarray, Love began a " punk rock femme supergroup " called Bastard during autumn 2001, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley, whom Post recommended.

He was invited to open subsequent gigs for the band, and then began performing as a support act in pubs and clubs, for the next three years, and at events such as the Larks in the Park music festival at Sefton Park ( 1982 ).

Guest later began performing with bluegrass bands until he took up rock and roll.

Atkins began working on recording sessions, performing on WSM-AM and the Opry.

Dolly Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the Eastern Tennessee area.

To help out, she and George began performing professionally when Emma was nine years old.

He began to increasingly focus on performing and later claimed: " With time I became disenchanted with teaching because the ratio of girls to boys was more than ten to one, and once the girls reached sixteen the dropout rate was very high.

In 1501, the colony began to import African slaves, believing them more capable of performing the physical labor.

Following this initial success, Boylston began performing inoculations throughout Boston, despite much controversy and at least one attempt upon his life.

Brown began his performing career at the age of 12, forming his first vocal group, the Cremona Trio in 1945, where they won local talent shows at Augusta concert halls such as the Lenox and Harlem theaters.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

Berry also toured with his Aloha band, while Dean began performing with a band called Papa Doo Run Run.

After he began his performing career there was occasionally unfounded media speculation that Julian would undertake performances with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

The history of kabuki began in 1603 when Izumo no Okuni, possibly a miko of Izumo Taisha, began performing a new style of dance drama in the dry riverbeds of Kyoto.

Davis began playing professionally, performing in several 52nd Street clubs with Coleman Hawkins and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis.

A comedic " precursor " to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.

Pianists began accompanying singers or dancers performing on stage, or patrons dancing on a dance floor.

In 2009, in addition to his continued work with The Presidents, Ballew began recording and performing as children's artist Caspar Babypants.

Desmond met Ed Bickert through Jim Hall in Toronto, Canada and began performing with him at several clubs in the Toronto area.