But when he ran away from his home in Danville, Illinois, to join the Marine Corps, his personal appearance was apparently a factor, as he related to David Letterman in 1988. Actor Gene Hackman ...

Authorities have released body camera footage from outside the home of Gene Hackman, where the actor and his wife Betsy ...

(Gene had a younger brother, actor Richard Hackman). At 16, he “suddenly got the itch to get out.” Lying about his age, Hackman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving from 1946 to ...

The Oscar-winning actor was found dead on February 26 at his New Mexico home alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa. Hackman was 95; Arakawa was 65.

Though he’d had small roles in movies and on television throughout the early 1960s (he’d been a Marine before that, and had studied journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill), Hackman was ...

Gene Hackman and the woman who would become his ... Hackman, who enlisted as a Marine when he was young, had a reputation for playing pugnacious characters onscreen and could be “stubborn ...

(Gene had a younger brother, actor Richard Hackman). At 16, he “suddenly got the itch to get out.” Lying about his age, Hackman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving from 1946 to ...

(Gene had a younger brother, actor Richard Hackman). Lying about his age, Hackman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving from 1946 to 1951 as a field radio operator with stints in ...