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Gene Hackman

  • 27-12-2009 11:17pm
    #1
    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭


    What has happened to him? Has he stopped acting?

    He is a legend


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  • #2
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,169 ✭✭✭rednik


    Yes he has retired. One of the biggest losses in Hollywood. A great actor who chose his roles so carefully.


  • #3
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Hackman is Up there with the likes of Jack Lemon ,Walter Matthau and Clint Eastwood .One of the few great actors still around .


  • #4
    Zatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭Zatman


    He retired in 2004 after Welcome to Mooseport.

    Im sure he could have went out a better way but he writes novels now


  • #5
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    rednik wrote: »
    Yes he has retired. One of the biggest losses in Hollywood. A great actor who chose his roles so carefully.
    Yes I agree he is a brilliant actor but the one role he didn't choose carefully was the quick and the dead it was an absolute disaster.


  • #6
    mike65
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    He made a bunch of clunkers in the mid/late 70s, unless someone is going to convince me that Lucky Lady, March or Die or The Domino Principle were quality. It wasn't until 1983 when he got back on track properly with two fine war themed thrillers - Under Fire and Uncommon Valor. Fine actor though, one of those who brought gravitas just by being on screen.


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  • #7
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    there an interview in this months empire with him, retired writing historical novels


  • #8
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Yes I agree he is a brilliant actor but the one role he didn't choose carefully was the quick and the dead it was an absolute disaster.

    He was the best thing in it though, as always


  • #9
    kyp_durron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭kyp_durron


    krudler wrote: »
    He was the best thing in it though, as always

    I guess being the sweetest corn in the turd is considered a good thing by some.


  • #10
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    I liked what he did in Mississipi Burning in particular, such a bad ass performance.


  • #11
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    He was on the tube today, The Poseidon Adventure, speak of the devil etc ... spooky !


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  • #12
    irish_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    always thought he would have been a great choice to play george w bush but i guess he was a little too old

    a very cool man , along with clint , one of the few real men left in hollywood


  • #13
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Lex Luthor?....nuff said!


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