(Gene had a younger brother, actor Richard Hackman). At 16, he "suddenly got the itch to get out." Lying about his age, ...

"I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine." Oscar winner Gene Hackman was one of Hollywood's busiest and most respected actors, known for films ...

Gene worked as a shoe salesman, a furniture mover, and a doorman, where he ran into one of his former Marine officers who muttered, "Hackman, you’re a sorry son of a bitch," as he recalled to ...

Hackman’s co-star, Luke Wilson, paid tribute in a statement to Fox News Digital after his death. "Marine. Actor. Legend. Gene Hackman could do it all. He stands alone on the mountain with Marlon ...

Gene Hackman and the woman who would become his ... Hackman, who enlisted as a Marine when he was young, had a reputation for playing pugnacious characters onscreen and could be “stubborn ...

Look back on Hackman's life in photos, from Gene Hackman as a young Marine to the iconic acting roles that made his name in Hollywood. Gene Hackman was born on January 30, 1930, in San Bernardino ...

Gene Hackman, a 6-foot-2 ex-Marine from Danville, Illinois, and a self-described “big lummox kind of person,” was as hard to define an actor as he was an unlikely star. “Everyman” was the ...

Gene Hackman tried to stay active before his health ... SplashNews.com “He was very fit, you know, and he was 6-foot-2 plus an ex-Marine,” said Stuart Ashman, a friend of Hackman and his ...

(Gene had a younger brother, actor Richard Hackman). Lying about his age, Hackman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving from 1946 to 1951 as a field radio operator with stints in ...