Caption: Reigart (GENE HACKMAN, center) communicates with a downed aviator, while planning a daring rescue mission with (left-right) the carrier commanding officer (TOM MOONEY), Rodway (CHARLES MALIK WHITFIELD) and O'Malley (DAVID KEITH).
Actor, Soundtrack, Producer
Born: January 30, 1930
Star sign: Aquarius
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Known for: Unforgiven (1992), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Enemy of the State (1998), The French Connection (1971)
Source: IMDB
Gene Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lydia (née Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. Gene grew up in a broken home, which he left at the age of 16 for a hitch with ...