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.

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

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

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

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

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.

The Job Characteristics Theory of motivation identifies core job dimensions that provide motivation for individuals and include: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback ( Hackman & Oldham, 1980 ).

Such expansions of team task assignments can make teams more effective and require teams to spend greater amounts of time discussing and planning strategies and approaches for completing assigned tasks ( Hackman, et al., 1976 ).

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 ).

After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following.

Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( Gene Hackman ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk.

Despite having rejected the Oscar the previous year for his work in Patton, Scott was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went instead to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

He was also Oscar-nominated for his performance in the film version of Fiddler, but lost to Gene Hackman, who won for his performance in The French Connection.

It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Gene Hackman ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ernest Tidyman ).

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.

Friedkin almost settled for Rod Taylor ( who had actively pursued the role, according to Hackman ), another choice the studio approved, before he went with Hackman.

In 1985, New Richmond, Indiana was turned into Hickory, Indiana for the filming of the motion picture Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper.

It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Hackman ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( McDormand ), Best Director, Best Film Editing ( Gerry Hambling ), Best Picture and Best Sound.

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.

Replacing Simmons, Watson and Arnold were guitarists Brent " The Doctor " Doerner and Paul Hackman, who would both remain with Helix through the 80s, and drummer Brian Doerner, Brent's twin brother.

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.

Two feature motion pictures were completed during the company's operation: " Downhill Racer " ( 1969 ) starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman, and " Unman, Wittering & Zigo " ( 1971 ) starring David Hemmings ; both released by Paramount Pictures.

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.

His final film to date was Welcome to Mooseport ( 2004 ), a comedy with Ray Romano, in which Hackman portrayed a former President of the United States.

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 comedy featured an all-star cast, including Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel and brother Luke.

* All Night Long ( 1981 film ), a comedy film starring Barbra Streisand and Gene Hackman

Welcome to Mooseport is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Ray Romano and Gene Hackman in his final film before retiring from acting.

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 Lex Luthor in Superman II

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 ).

Spacey's Luthor continues the real-estate fixation of the Hackman version, but also appears to have a real personal animus toward Superman.

Both the Hackman and Spacey versions of Luthor surround themselves with bungling henchmen and dim-witted molls.

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.