Cisco Pike. I Never Sang for My Father. Get Shorty. The French Connection. The Quick and the Dead. Absolute Power. The Package. Downhill Racer. The Conversation. Under Fire. No Way Out. Bite the Bullet. The Gypsy Moths. Another Woman. Doctors' Wives.
The Domino Principle. Bonnie and Clyde. Split Decisions. Young Frankenstein. The Firm. French Connection II. Twice in a Lifetime. Prime Cut. Class Action. Postcards from the Edge. Loose Cannons. Uncommon Valor. Superman II. Mississippi Burning. Lucky Lady. The Poseidon Adventure. Narrow Margin. With Hoosiers , he tackled the role of a new coach who leads a small-town basketball team to victory.
Hackman delivered another strong turn in Mississippi Burning In this historical dramatic thriller based on a true story, he played an FBI agent investigating the murder of three civil rights workers in , a performance that earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination.
Not long afterward, Hackman experienced chest pains and underwent an angioplasty. He considered retirement for a while, but eventually returned to his craft. In this western, he played a cruel sheriff pursued by Eastwood, who also won an Oscar for Best Director. In , he starred in another Grisham adaptation, The Chamber , as a convicted murderer and racist facing execution. The film struck out with critics and movie-goers alike, but Hackman had better luck that year as a conservative senator in the comedy The Birdcage, with Robin Williams.
That same year also found him starring alongside Morgan Freeman in the crime thriller Under Suspicion. That year, Hackman also starred in Heartbreakers as a wealthy widower targeted by a gold-digging mother and daughter, played by Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. He played a jury consultant working for a gun manufacturer in a suit that Hoffman's client has brought against the company. Hackman's last film project was the light-hearted comedy Welcome to Mooseport , in which he starred as a former president who campaigns against a local Ray Romano to become mayor of a small town.
While promoting the film, Hackman appeared on The Larry King Show and said that he did not have another film project lined up, adding that his film career was "probably all over. While his acting gigs were winding down, Hackman began a thriving second career as a novelist. He went on to deliver two solo efforts, Payback at Morning Peak and Pursuit Hackman has three children, Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie, from his first marriage to Faye Maltese. In , he married Betsy Arakawa.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Gene Kelly was a dancer whose athletic style transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public's conception of male dancers.
Tony Scott's action thriller, set on a U. Wes Anderson cast Hackman as the estranged patriarch of an eccentric family of early over-achievers who tries to reconcile with his wife and now-grown children by falsely claiming a terminal illness. A pure delight. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them.
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