The Oscar winner once voted “Least Likely to Succeed” became one of the most celebrated performers in Hollywood history.

Herbert Dorfman/Corbis, via Getty Images Supported by By Benjamin Hoffman ... nowhere in the 1970s as a fully formed star, he disappeared just as abruptly, doing one final film in 2004 and then ...

He persuaded a reluctant Dustin Hoffman to play the father ... landing marquee films like “Love Story” (1970) and “The Godfather” (1972). But he quickly grew restless at the top.

Even in films that failed to hit their mark, Hackman remained a steady force, unwavering in his commitment to his craft ...

Gene Hackman's death left other Hollywood figures, including Bill Murray, Francis Ford Coppola and Dustin Hoffman shocked and ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home alongside their dog.

The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a ...

Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Francis Ford Coppola and more ... Hackman’s first starring film role came in 1970 with "I Never Sang for My Father," as a man struggling to deal with a failed ...

The Oscar-winner starred in The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, The Royal Tenenbaums amid a host of other movies.

“He’s one of the ones who are willing to plunge their arm into the fire as far as it can go,’’ said Arthur Penn, who directed him in three films, including the one ... Together with Robert Duvall and ...

Yet, from the early 1970s, he formed the hard ... and Pasadena colleague Dustin Hoffman. None of that trio looked, even in the post-method era, how a movie star was supposed to look.