Academy Awards will honor Gene Hackman -- Best Actor winner - who died Wed. Feb. 26

Eugene Allen Hackman

(b. 1930 - 2025)

Details at mini-biography

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13 Breakout performances

feature films:

1972 The French Connection

The Poseidon Adventure

The Conversation

1967 debut Bonnie & Clyde

played Clyde Barrow's brother Buck

1970 I Never Sang for My Father

1975 Night Moves

1979 Superman and sequel Superman II

1986 Hoosiers

1988 Mississippi Burning

1992 Unforgiven (Best sup. Actor Oscar)

1995 Crimson Tide

2001 The Royal Tenenbaums

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