Frail-Looking Gene Hackman, 93, Breaks Cover In New Mexico Two Decades After Retirement
He went on to have consistent work, including in disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) before landing the role of supervillain Lex Luthor in 1978's Superman: The Movie.
In the 1980s he starred in several films including Reds (1981), Under Fire (1983), Hoosiers (1986), No Way Out (1987) and Mississippi Burning (1988).
The 1990s brought him his second Oscar as he earned the Best Supporting Actor gong for his work as sadistic sheriff 'Little' Bill Daggett alongside Clint Eastwood in 1992's Unforgiven.
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