Gene Hackman, Hoosiers Star, Dead At 95
Hackman was born January 30, 1930, in San Bernardino, California. “It was a real adios,” he toldVanity Fair. “It was so precise. Maybe that’s why I became an actor. This skill would be put to good use when Hackman served in China, working as a disc jockey. Hackman, Hoffman, and Robert Duvall became good friends in the 1950s and 1960s. They worked menial jobs and supported one another as they began to build their acting careers....