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

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.

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.

Hackman is friends with Del Rio from Del Rio's playing days at the University of Southern California.

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.

* The Samuel E. Hackman Building is a historic building in Hartsburg.

Functional leadership theory ( Hackman & Walton, 1986 ; McGrath, 1962 ; Adair, 1988 ; Kouzes & Posner, 1995 ) is a particularly useful theory for addressing specific leader behaviors expected to contribute to organizational or unit effectiveness.

This theory argues that the leader's main job is to see that whatever is necessary to group needs is taken care of ; thus, a leader can be said to have done their job well when they have contributed to group effectiveness and cohesion ( Fleishman et al., 1991 ; Hackman & Wageman, 2005 ; Hackman & Walton, 1986 ).

Duvall is friends with actors Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman whom he knew during their years as struggling actors.

He doesn't realise that the army's leader and Bala's fiance, General Mandible ( Gene Hackman ), is secretly sending all the soldiers loyal to the Queen to die so he can begin to build a colony filled with powerful ants.

For their target, they choose widower William B. Tensy ( Gene Hackman ), a tobacco baron who is addicted to his own product.

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.

The suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiff's attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward ( Gene Hackman ) discovers that the automobile manufacturer's attorney Maggie Ward ( Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ) is his estranged daughter.

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.

1976: Jeff Hackman is granted the Quiksilver license.

It is later revealed that Weenie is the brother of Mary Ann ( Gene Hackman ), the crooked operator of the slaughterhouse in Kansas City, Kansas.

Moss ( Michael J. Pollard ), then with Clyde's older brother Buck ( Gene Hackman ) and his wife, Blanche ( Estelle Parsons ), a preacher's daughter.

He was strongly opposed to the choice of Hackman for the lead, and actually first considered Paul Newman ( out of the budget range ), then Jackie Gleason, and a New York columnist, Jimmy Breslin, who had never acted before.

He then starred as astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff, in the action movie Uncommon Valor with Gene Hackman and in the drama Silkwood ( all 1983 ).

The main plot was the same but when Hackman showed reluctance to do a third movie as Doyle the idea was scrapped and Universal acquired the rights to the storyline, which Shaber then reworked into Nighthawks.

* Jimmy McGinty ( Gene Hackman ) — Former head coach of the Washington Sentinels.

Gene Hackman stars as Norman Dale, a new coach with a spotty past.

In smaller, earlier appearances, he played a US Olympic skiing team coach in the Robert Redford 1969 film Downhill Racer, a high-ranking superior to firefighter Steve McQueen in The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ) and a wealthy Westerner whose champion horse is entered in a long-distance race against that of Gene Hackman and others in Bite the Bullet ( 1975 ).

Although he talked to Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Kris Kristofferson, and Jack Nicholson to find out if they would be interested, Steve McQueen was the director's first choice for the role eventually taken by Roy Scheider, a small-time criminal named Jackie Scanlon who ends up a fugitive from the law and the Mafia after a robbery of a New Jersey church.

* Gene Hackman as Jack Ames

It also starred Gene Hackman, Julie Harris, Diahann Carroll, Jack Klugman, Donald Sutherland, Warren Oates, James Whitmore and Ernest Borgnine.

In 1984 director Nicolas Roeg released the film Eureka, starring Gene Hackman, who played the character Jack McCann, based upon Harry Oakes .< ref >

Academy Award-winners Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, and Gene Hackman were all considered for the role of Damien Thorn.

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.

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

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.

Hackman began performing in several Off-Broadway plays.

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.

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.