Gene Hackman | |
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| File:GeneHackmanJun2108.jpg Hackman at a book signing in June 2008 | |
| Born | Eugene Allen Hackman January 30, 1930 |
| Died | February 17, 2025 (aged 95) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, novelist |
| Years active | 1959–2004 |
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| Children | 3 |
| Awards | 2 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, 1 SAG Award, 2 BAFTA Awards. |
Eugene Allen Hackman[1][2][3] (January 30, 1930 - February 17, 2025) was a American actor, novelist, and United States Marine. In a career that spanned over four decades, Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, Hackman won Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the critically acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971), and Best Supporting Actor as "Little" Bill Daggett in the Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven (1992). His other nominations for Best Supporting Actor came with the films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), with a second Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning (1988).
Hackman's other major film roles included The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Conversation (1974), French Connection II (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Superman: The Movie (1978)—as arch-villain Lex Luthor, Hoosiers (1986), The Firm (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Antz (1998), The Replacements (2000), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and Welcome to Mooseport (2004)—his final film role before his retirement.
Early life and education[]
Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Eugene Ezra Hackman and Anna Lyda Elizabeth (née Gray).[4][5] He had a brother named Richard. He had Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry; his mother was Canadian, and was born in Lambton, Ontario.[6][7] His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice.[6][8] Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper.[9] His parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family.[8][9] Hackman decided that he wanted to become an actor when he was ten years old.[10]
Hackman lived briefly in Storm Lake, Iowa, and spent his sophomore year at Storm Lake High School.[11] He left home at age 16 and lied about his age to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. He served four and a half years as a field radio operator.[12] He was stationed in China (Qingdao and later in Shanghai). When the Communist Revolution conquered the mainland in 1949, Hackman was assigned to Hawaii and Japan. Following his discharge in 1951,[13] he moved to New York and had several jobs.[12] His mother died in 1962 as a result of a fire she accidentally started while smoking.[14] He began a study of journalism and television production at the University of Illinois under the G.I. Bill, but left and moved to California.[15]
Acting was something I wanted to do since I was 10 and saw my first movie, I was so captured by the action guys. Jimmy Cagney was my favorite. Without realizing it, I could see he had tremendous timing and vitality.
Career[]
Beginnings to the 1960s[]
In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California,[12] where he befriended another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman.[12] Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, Hackman and Hoffman were voted "The Least Likely To Succeed",[12] and Hackman got the lowest score the Pasadena Playhouse had yet given.[16] Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman moved to New York City. A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall as struggling California-born actors and close friends, sharing NYC apartments in various two-person combinations in the 1960s.[17][18] To support himself between acting jobs, Hackman was working at a Howard Johnson restaurant[19] when he encountered an instructor from the Pasadena Playhouse, who said that his job proved that Hackman "wouldn't amount to anything".[20] A Marine officer who saw him as a doorman said "Hackman, you're a sorry son of a bitch". Rejection motivated Hackman, who said,[19]
- "it was more psychological warfare, because I wasn't going to let those fuckers get me down. I insisted with myself that I would continue to do whatever it took to get a job. It was like me against them, and in some way, unfortunately, I still feel that way. But I think if you’re really interested in acting there is a part of you that relishes the struggle. It’s a narcotic in the way that you are trained to do this work and nobody will let you do it, so you’re a little bit nuts. You lie to people, you cheat, you do whatever it takes to get an audition, get a job."
Hackman got various bit roles, for example on the TV series Route 66 in 1963, and began performing in several Off-Broadway plays. In 1964 he had an offer to co-star in the play Any Wednesday with actress Sandy Dennis. This opened the door to film work. His first role was in Lilith, with Warren Beatty in the leading role. In 1967 he appeared in an episode of the television series The Invaders entitled The Spores. Another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde,[12] earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. In 1968 he appeared in an episode of I Spy, in the role of "Hunter", in the episode "Happy Birthday... Everybody". That same year he starred in the CBS Playhouse episode "My Father and My Mother" and the dystopian television film Shadow on the Land.[21] In 1969 he played a ski coach in Downhill Racer and an astronaut in Marooned. Also that year, he played a member of a barnstorming skydiving team that entertained mostly at county fairs, a movie which also inspired many to pursue skydiving and has a cult-like status amongst skydivers as a result: The Gypsy Moths. He nearly accepted the role of Mike Brady for the TV series, The Brady Bunch,[22] but his agent advised that he decline it in exchange for a more promising role, which he did.
1970s[]
Hackman in 1972
Hackman was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as New York City Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971), marking his graduation to leading-man status.[12]
After The French Connection, Hackman starred in ten films (not including his cameo in Young Frankenstein) over the next three years, making him the most prolific actor in Hollywood during that time frame. He followed The French Connection with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), which was nominated for several Oscars.[12] That same year, Hackman appeared, in what would become one of his most famous comedic roles, as Harold the Blind Man in Young Frankenstein.[23]
He appeared as one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga Bite the Bullet (1975). He reprised his Oscar winning role as Doyle in the sequel French Connection II (1975), and was part of an all-star cast in the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), playing Polish General Stanisław Sosabowski. Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the "slow burn" as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie (1978), a role he would reprise in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.
1980s[]
Hackman with President Ronald Reagan in 1987
Gene is someone who is a very intuitive and instinctive actor...The brilliance of Gene Hackman is that he can look at a scene and he can cut through to what is necessary, and he does it with extraordinary economy—he's the quintessential movie actor. He's never showy ever, but he's always right on.
Hackman alternated between leading and supporting roles during the 1980s, with prominent roles in Reds (1981)—directed by and starring Warren Beatty—Under Fire (1983), Hoosiers (1986) (which an American Film Institute poll in 2008 voted the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre),[25] No Way Out (1987) and Mississippi Burning (1988), where he was nominated for a second Best Actor Oscar.[26] Between 1985 and 1988, he starred in nine films, making him the busiest actor, alongside Steve Guttenberg.[27]
1990s[]
Hackman appeared with Anne Archer in Narrow Margin (1990), a remake of the 1952 film The Narrow Margin. In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff "Little" Bill Daggett in the Western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. Hackman had pledged to avoid violent roles, but Eastwood convinced him to take the part, which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won Best Picture.[12]
In 1993, he appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend as Brigadier General George Crook, and co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm, a legal thriller based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. Hackman would appear in a second film based on a John Grisham novel, playing a convict on death row in The Chamber (1996).
Other notable films Hackman appeared in during the 1990s include Wyatt Earp (1994) (as Nicholas Porter Earp, Wyatt Earp's father), The Quick and the Dead (1995) opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey alongside Denzel Washington in Crimson Tide (1995). Hackman played movie director Harry Zimm with John Travolta in the comedy-drama Get Shorty (1995). He reunited with Clint Eastwood in Absolute Power (1997), and co-starred with Will Smith in Enemy of the State (1998), his character reminiscent of the one he had portrayed in The Conversation.
In 1996, he took a comedic turn as conservative Senator Kevin Keeley in The Birdcage[28] with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
2000s[]
Hackman co-starred with Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines (2001), and appeared in the David Mamet crime thriller Heist (2001),[29] as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job. He also gained much critical acclaim playing against type as the head of an eccentric family in Wes Anderson's comedy film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2003, he also starred in another John Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury at long last getting to make a picture with his long-time friend Dustin Hoffman. In 2004, Hackman appeared alongside Ray Romano in the comedy Welcome to Mooseport, his final film acting role to date.[30]
Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Golden Globe Awards for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field" in 2003.[31]
Retirement from acting[]
On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, where he announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believed his acting career was over. In 2008, while promoting his third novel, he confirmed that he had retired from acting.[32] When asked during a GQ interview in 2011 if he would ever come out of retirement to do one more film, he said he might consider it "if I could do it in my own house, maybe, without them disturbing anything and just one or two people."[33] In 2016, he narrated the Smithsonian Channel documentary The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima.[34]
Career as a novelist[]
Hackman at a book signing in 2008
Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman wrote three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star (1999),[35] a sea adventure of the 19th century; Justice for None (2004),[36] a Depression-era tale of murder; and Escape from Andersonville (2008) about a prison escape during the American Civil War.[37] His first solo effort, a story of love and revenge set in the Old West titled Payback at Morning Peak, was released in 2011.[38] His final novel Pursuit, a police thriller, followed in 2013.
In 2011, he appeared on the Fox Sports Radio show The Loose Cannons, where he discussed his career and his novels with Pat O'Brien, Steve Hartman, and Vic "The Brick" Jacobs.
Personal life[]
Hackman's first marriage was to Faye Maltese.[39] They had three children: Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean, and Leslie Anne Hackman.[40] The couple divorced in 1986 after three decades of marriage.[41] In 1991, he married Betsy Arakawa (1959-2025); they shared a home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[42]
In the late 1970s, Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races, driving an open-wheeled Formula Ford.[43][44] In 1983, he drove a Dan Gurney Team Toyota in the 24 Hours of Daytona Endurance Race.[45] He also won the Long Beach Grand Prix Celebrity Race.[46]
Hackman underwent an angioplasty in 1990.[47]
Hackman was a supporter of the Democratic Party, and was "proud" to be included on Nixon's Enemies List. However, he spoke fondly of Republican president Ronald Reagan.[48]
He was an avid fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and regularly attended Jaguars games as a guest of then head coach Jack Del Rio.[49][50] Their friendship went back to Del Rio's playing days at the University of Southern California.[51]
In January 2012, the then 81-year-old Hackman was riding a bicycle in the Florida Keys when he was struck by a car.[52]
Death[]
Hackman, his wife, and one of their three dogs were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 26, 2025. Their bodies were discovered during a wellness check, after a maintenance worker grew concerned when the couple did not answer the door and called for help from local security. After seeing bodies through a window, they called 911 and Sheriff deputies arrived. The deputies found Hackman's decaying body lying in the mudroom and Arakawa's in similar condition in a bathroom, with prescription pills scattered around. One of their dogs, a German Shepherd, died near Arakawa in the bathroom closet. The couple's two other dogs were found alive on the property. One of the deputies on the scene said that it appeared Hackman had "suddenly fallen" and evidence suggested the same for Arakawa. According to a deputy, the couple could have been dead for "several days, possibly even up to a couple [of] weeks". The maintenance workers who alerted the authorities stated that they had last had contact with the couple two weeks before.
On February 27, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department said there were no significant signs of foul play, but did not initially provide a time or cause of death. The fire department did not find evidence of a gas or carbon monoxide leak. The sheriff's department is investigating. The initial autopsy reports on both showed no signs of external trauma. Their bodies had begun to undergo natural mummification by the time they were discovered. On February 28, it was determined the couple tested negative for carbon monoxide, with Hackman's pacemaker last recording activity on February 17.
Hackman is believed to have died on February 17, based on data stored on his pacemaker.
Tributes and legacy[]
Numerous members of the film industry have paid tribute to Hackman since his death. Clint Eastwoodwrote in a statement, "There was no finer actor than Gene. Intense and instinctive. Never a false note. He was also a dear friend whom I will miss very much". Francis Ford Coppola wrote, "Gene Hackman (was) a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity ... I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution." Others who paid tribute include Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Brolin, Nathan Lane, James Woods, Antonio Banderas, Dan Aykroyd, and Hank Azaria.BAFTA President Prince William also released a statement, which read in part, "Hackman was a true genius of film who brought each and every character to life with power, authenticity and star quality". The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshawwrote that Hackman's death "marks the end of one of the greatest periods of U.S. cinema: the American New Wave ... He was the character actor who was really a star; in fact the star of every scene he was in – that tough, wised-up, intelligent, but unhandsome face perpetually on the verge of coolly unconcerned derision, or creased in a heartbreakingly fatherly, pained smile."
Theatre credits[]
- The Premise" improv theatre at The Premise, on Bleeker Street, NYC (1960/61)
- Children From Their Games by Irwin Shaw at the Morosco Theatre (April 1963)
- A Rainy Day in Newark by Howard Teichmann at the Belasco Theatre (October 1963)
- Come to the Palace of Sin by Michael Shurtleff at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (1963)
- Any Wednesday by Muriel Resnik at the Music Box Theatre and the George Abbott Theatre (1964–1966)
- Poor Richard by Jean Kerr with Alan Bates and Shirley Knight at the Helen Hayes Theatre (1964–1965)[53]
- The Natural Look by Leonora Thuna at the Longacre Theatre (1967)
- Fragments and The Basement by Murray Schisgal at the Cherry Lane Theatre (1967)
- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman with Glenn Close and Richard Dreyfuss, directed by Mike Nichols, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (1992)
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Mad Dog Coll | Policeman | Uncredited |
| 1964 | Lilith | Norman | |
| 1966 | Hawaii | John Whipple | |
| 1967 | Banning | Tommy Del Gaddo | |
| 1967 | Community Shelter Planning | Donald Ross—Regional Civil Defense Officer | |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Harmsworth | |
| 1967 | First to Fight | Sgt. Tweed | |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Buck Barrow | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1968 | Shadow on the Land | Reverend Thomas Davis | |
| 1968 | The Split | Detective Lt. Walter Brill | |
| 1969 | Riot | Red Fraker | |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Joe Browdy | |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | Eugene Claire | |
| 1969 | Marooned | Buzz Lloyd | |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Gene Garrison | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Dave Randolph | |
| 1971 | The Hunting Party | Brandt Ruger | |
| 1971 | The French Connection | NYPD Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama National Board of Review Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
| 1972 | Prime Cut | Mary Ann | |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Frank Scott | |
| 1972 | Cisco Pike | Sergeant Leo Holland | |
| 1973 | Scarecrow | Max Millan | |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Harry Caul | National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama 2nd Place – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | Harold, The Blind Man | |
| 1974 | Zandy's Bride | Zandy Allan | |
| 1975 | French Connection II | NYPD Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | |
| 1975 | Lucky Lady | Kibby Womack | |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Harry Moseby | |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet | Sam Clayton | |
| 1977 | The Domino Principle | Roy Tucker | |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Maj Gen. Stanisław Sosabowski | |
| 1977 | March or Die | Maj. William Sherman Foster | |
| 1978 | Superman | Lex Luthor | |
| 1980 | Superman II | Lex Luthor | |
| 1981 | All Night Long | George Dupler | 2nd Place – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor |
| 1981 | Reds | Pete Van Wherry | |
| 1983 | Under Fire | Alex Grazier | |
| 1983 | Two of a Kind | God (voice) | Uncredited |
| 1983 | Uncommon Valor | Col. Jason Rhodes, USMC (ret) | |
| 1983 | Eureka | Jack McCann | |
| 1984 | Misunderstood | Ned Rawley | |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime | Harry MacKenzie | |
| 1985 | Target | Walter Lloyd / Duncan (Duke) Potter | |
| 1986 | Power | Wilfred Buckley | |
| 1986 | Hoosiers | Coach Norman Dale | |
| 1987 | No Way Out | Defense Secretary David Brice | |
| 1987 | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Lex Luthor Nuclear Man (voice) |
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| 1988 | Bat*21 | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton, USAF | |
| 1988 | Split Decisions | Dan McGuinn | |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Larry Lewis | |
| 1988 | Full Moon in Blue Water | Floyd | |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | FBI Special Agent Rupert Anderson | National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
| 1989 | The Package | Sgt. Johnny Gallagher | |
| 1990 | Loose Cannons | MacArthur Stern | |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Lowell Kolchek | |
| 1990 | Narrow Margin | Robert Caulfield | |
| 1991 | Class Action | Jedediah Tucker Ward | |
| 1991 | Company Business | Sam Boyd | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Little Bill Daggett | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1993 | The Firm | Avery Tolar | |
| 1993 | Geronimo: An American Legend | Brig. Gen. George Crook | |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp | Nicholas Earp | |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | John Herod | |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Capt. Frank Ramsey | |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Harry Zimm | |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Senator Kevin Keeley | |
| 1996 | Extreme Measures | Lawrence Myrick | |
| 1996 | The Chamber | Sam Cayhall | |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | President Allen Richmond | |
| 1998 | Twilight | Jack Ames | |
| 1998 | Antz | General Mandible (voice) | |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Edward 'Brill' Lyle | |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Henry Hearst | Also executive producer |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Jimmy McGinty | |
| 2001 | The Mexican | Arnold Margolese | |
| 2001 | Heartbreakers | William B. Tensy | |
| 2001 | Heist | Joe Moore | |
| 2001 | Behind Enemy Lines | Admiral Leslie Reigart | |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum | Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor 3rd Place – Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Rankin Fitch | |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Monroe "Eagle" Cole | Final film role |
| 2016 | The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima | Narrator (voice) | TV documentary film |
| 2017 | We, the Marines | Narrator (voice) | TV documentary film |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Tallahassee 7000 | Joe Lawson | Episode: "The Fugitive" |
| 1963 | Route 66 | Motorist | Episode: "Who Will Cheer My Bonny Bride?" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Tom Jessup | Episode: "The Spores" |
Accolades[]
Asteroid 55397 Hackman, discovered by Roy Tucker in 2001, was named in his honor.[54] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on May 18, 2019 (M.P.C. 114954).[55]
Works or publications[]
- Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan. Wake of the Perdido Star. New York: Newmarket Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-557-04398-6.
- Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan. Justice for None. New York: St. Martins Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-312-32425-4.
- Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan. Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-312-36373-4.
- Hackman, Gene. Payback at Morning Peak: A Novel of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc, 2011. ISBN 978-1-451-62356-7.
- Hackman, Gene. Pursuit. New York: Pocket Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-451-62357-4.
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External links[]
- Gene Hackman at AllMovie
- Gene Hackman at the Internet Movie Database
- Gene Hackman at the TCM Movie Database
- Gene Hackman at the Internet Broadway Database
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| Preceded by George C. Scott Declined Oscar |
Academy Award for Best Actor 1971 |
Succeeded by Marlon Brando Declined Oscar |
| Preceded by Lyle Talbot 1950 for Atom Man vs. Superman |
Actors portraying Lex Luthor 1978–1987 for Superman, Superman II and Superman IV |
Succeeded by Scott James Wells 1988–1989 for Superboy (TV series) |