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Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 - February 17, 2025), a former US Marine, was an American actor with a career that spanned over four decades, winning two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Hackman's two Oscars were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was also Oscar-nominated for three other roles: Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in Mississippi Burning (1988). The following recordings are of his two Academy Award acceptance speeches.
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Gene Hackman (1930–2025), an Academy Award–winning actor, wrote three novels and one novel and was coauthor of three other novels with Daniel Lenihan, a leading underwater archaeologist who writes frequently for Natural History magazine and is the author of Submerged. Hackman and Lenihan were friends and neighbors for over a decade.