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

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

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.

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

With Hackman reprising his role as New York cop Popeye Doyle, the film was a success and got Frankenheimer his next job, Black Sunday in 1976.

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 ).

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.

Coppola noted in the DVD commentary that Hackman had a very difficult time adapting to the Harry Caul character because it was so much unlike himself.

Coppola says that Hackman was at the time an outgoing and approachable person who preferred casual clothes, whereas Caul was meant to be a socially awkward loner who wore a rain coat and out-of-style glasses.

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.

Gene Hackman also predicted that the movie was going to be a " career killer ".

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.

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.

On January 13, 2012, actor Gene Hackman was struck by a pickup truck while riding his bicycle in Islamorada.

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.

The hospital stairway scene from Mississippi Burning was filmed in the Southern Cultural Heritage Convent ( with Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe ).

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.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Melvyn Douglas ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Gene Hackman ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

In Francis Ford Coppola's tense character study / spy thriller, The Conversation ( 1974 ), a bugging-device expert ( Gene Hackman ) systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon.

Another film based in Big Sur was the 1974 Zandy's Bride, starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullman.

During their relationship, Ray bore him at least five and perhaps as many as nine children, including Basil Montagu ( 1770 – 1851 ), writer, jurist and philanthropist Tragedy was to strike again in April 1779 when Ray was murdered in the foyer of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden by a jealous suitor, James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton.

Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise were considered for the part that went to Will Smith, who took the role largely because he wanted to work with Gene Hackman and had previously enjoyed working with producer Jerry Bruckheimer on Bad Boys.

This was a song that Paul Hackman had been working on shortly before his death.

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 ).

( 2001 ), Hackman and Walton ( 1986 ), Hackman & Wageman ( 2005 ), Morgeson ( 2005 )), Klein, Zeigert, Knight, and Xiao ( 2006 ) observed five broad functions a leader performs when promoting organization's effectiveness.

Hackman suggested that groups are successful when they satisfy internal and external clients, develop capabilities to perform in the future, and when members find meaning and satisfaction in the group.

On July 5, 1992, Paul Hackman, not wearing a seatbelt, was killed when the group's van rolled down a 40-foot embankment after a concert in Vancouver.

* Crimson Tide ( movie ) for a more modern example and particularly, when Gene Hackman threatens to shoot a fellow seaman if Viggo Mortenson doesn't unlock nuclear weapons, the overwhelming weight given to proximity vs potential harm in decision-making under stress.

The first took place on August 4, 1996, when Luther Hackman pitched a 4 – 1 no-hit game against the Kinston Indians.

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.

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.

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 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 ).

The story focuses on " The Lady " ( Stone ), a gunfighter who rides into the 1878 Wild West town of Redemption, controlled by the ruthless John Herod ( Hackman ).

In 2003, it was made into a film starring John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman.

In 1996, The Chamber was made into a feature film starring Gene Hackman and Chris O ' Donnell.

It was made into a film, Absolute Power ( 1997 ), starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.

# Absolute Power ( Warner Books, 1996 ) was made into a major motion picture by Castle Rock Entertainment and starred Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.

It was made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.

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.

Several of Slaughter's novels became films, including Sangaree, made into the 1953 film of that name starring Fernando Lamas ; and Doctors ' Wives, made into the 1971 film of the same name starring Dyan Cannon and Gene Hackman.