Gene Hackman, in his great career, won two Oscars and starred in some of the best, most important movies in film history. How to watch his top five.

Though he’d had small roles in movies and on television throughout the early 1960s (he’d been a Marine before that, and had ...

Gene Hackman, who never fit the mold of a Hollywood movie star but became one all the same, playing seemingly ordinary ...

He wasn’t leading-man handsome, but Hackman ... gone with his portrayal of the coach in "Hoosiers," Lex Luthor in "Superman: The Movie" and a couple of sequels, the father in "The Royal ...

And he did seem to have been born middle-aged: slightly balding, with strong but unremarkable features neither plain nor handsome ... of the Man of Steel, in “Superman” (1978) — and ...

He turned Lex Luthor into a wonderfully supercilious dandy in several Superman movies ... not necessarily movie-star handsome but made up of bits and pieces of star quality: the cleft chin ...

Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in the US state of New ...