Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California, USA, as Eugene Allen Hackman ) is a former actor and multiple Golden Globe and two-time Oscar winner. Hackman is one of the leading American character actors and received, among other things in 1971 with the role of unconventional drugs Fahnders Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in French Connection - focus Brooklyn great notoriety.
Life
Hackman grew up with his grandmother in Danville, Illinois. His parents divorced when he was still a child. His education broke Hackman, 1947 and entered - despite his minority - in the military. In the Marine Corps, he served for several years as a radio operator.
After his release Hackman studied in New York journalism and worked at numerous radio stations across the country. In the early 1950s he wanted to be an actor. In Los Angeles, he attended the Playhouse Acting School and was in The Curious Miss Caraway his stage debut. He broke the training from there after three months.
Back in New York Hackman shared a one-room apartment with his former classmates Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall, with whom he remained friends later. All three actors lived for years in very modest circumstances. Only in the late 1960s and early 1970s succeeded Hackman, Duvall and Hoffman breakthrough in Hollywood.
After several appearances on Broadway ( inter alia, in Any Wednesday ) and on television ( The United States Steel Hour), he played in 1961 in his first feature film, The Rabid, with. In 1964 he met during the filming of Lilith Warren Beatty know that three years later gave him a role in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde. For his portrayal of gangster Buck Barrow Hackman was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for an Oscar. In 1970 he was awarded for his role in the family drama No song for my father again nominated.
Gene Hackman was already over 40 years old than him in 1971 with the New Hollywood classic French Connection - focus Brooklyn international breakthrough. The realized with a low budget of 1.8 million dollars and without Stars film became a major box office success and played more than 50 million dollars. Hackman (who got the part after it had been rejected by several other actors ) has joined as fanatical narc " Popeye " Doyle in appearance and was honored for his performance at the Oscars.
Hackman was now firmly established in Hollywood as a leading character actor and was able to maintain this status over three decades. His salary rose over the 1970s of $ 100,000 ( French Connection ) to two million ( Superman ).
After French Connection was followed by appearances in The Poseidon Adventure, asphalt flowers with Al Pacino and The Dialogue of Francis Ford Coppola. In 1975, he played under the direction of Arthur Penn in one of the most important neo-noir movies, the hot track. 1978, 1980 and 1987, he starred in the Superman films with Christopher Reeve Superman and the villain opponent Lex Luthor. For his role as FBI Agent Anderson in the Southern drama Mississippi Burning - The root of the hatred he was again nominated for a 1988 Academy Award for Best Actor.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hackman appeared to be less demanding in the selection and role played, obviously for purely financial reasons, in numerous films with that found little response from critics and audiences. Alone between 1988 and 1991 was seen in eleven films of the actors. He declined the offer, the psychological thriller to realize as a director and performer ( of Hannibal Lecter ) The Silence of the Lambs, because it did not appeal to the dark fabric.
Gene Hackman succeeded from 1992 to stabilize his career by a careful selection of role again. He reduced his workload and turned usually one to two films a year. Some of his biggest commercial success he celebrated in the 1990s. Among other things, he worked in Clint Eastwood's late Western Unforgiven, for which he received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, he was in the Grisham adaptation The company, in the Western Quick and the Dead and to see a U- boat commander in the mutiny movie Crimson Tide. In Enemy of the State 1 he took the role profile of a monitoring specialists back to what was intended as a tribute to the character it represents in the psychodrama Dialogue. In the film comedy Get Shorty, The Birdcage - A paradise for birds shrill, The Royal Tenenbaums and Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! he put his comic talent.
In 2003, he stood in the courtroom drama The judgment, after a novel by John Grisham, the only time with his friend Dustin Hoffman in front of the camera. His most recent film was the comedy Welcome to Mooseport (2004 ) on the side of Ray Romano. Until 2004 he worked in over 80 film productions.
On 7 July 2004 Hackman announced in an interview with talk show host Larry King that he would have no further film offers and he expected that his film career was at an end. In fact, Hackman has occurred more in a film after 2004.
Gene Hackman was active in addition to his acting career as a writer. He wrote in collaboration with Daniel Lenihan, inter alia, the novels Wake of the Perdido Star, Payback at Morning Peak and ( dt ) Jack's Revenge.
Hackman is married to Betsy Arakawa in 1991 and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From his first marriage with Faye Maltese he has three children.
German dubbing voices
His voice actor changed over the decades. The most common Hackman was voiced by Horst Niendorf, who spoke to him 19 times 1971-1990. Since 1993 Klaus sunshine lent him eleven times his voice. Hackman has also been dubbed by Hartmut Neugebauer, Engelbert of Nordhausen, Rolf Schult, Michael Chevalier or Wolfgang Kieling.