A Rare Recording of Film Icon Gene Hackman

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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Lydbog: 6. marts 2025