12 January 1930 Voghera, Italy

Known from:

Malombra (1984)
... aka Erotic Games (UK)

"Dimenticare Lisa" (1976) (mini) TV Series
The Revengers (1972)
... aka Vengadores, Los (Mexico)

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (1965)
... aka Sandra of a Thousand Delights (USA: dubbed version)

Crimen (1960)
... aka ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (USA)
... aka Chacun son alibi (France)
... aka Criminals
... aka Killing in Monte Carlo

A child of a broken home, Hackman left home at 16 for a three-year hitch with the Marines. Moving to New York after being discharged, Hackman worked in a number of menial jobs before studying journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill at the University of Illinois.

Hackman would be over 30 years old when he finally decided to take his chance at acting by enrolling at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Legend says that Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were voted "least likely to succeed." Hackman next moved back to New York, where he worked in summer stock and off Broadway.

In 1964, he was cast as the young suitor in the Broadway stage play "Any Wednesday." This role would lead to him being cast in the small role of Norman in the film Lilith (1964), starring Warren Beatty. When Warren was casting for his film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), he would cast Hackman as Buck Barrow. That role earned Hackaman a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting actor, an award for which he would again be nominated in I Never Sang for My Father (1970).

In 1972, he won the Oscar for his role as Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle in The French Connection (1971). At 40 years old, Hackman was a Hollywood Star whose work would rise to the heights with Night Moves (1975) and Bite the Bullet (1975) or fall to the depths with The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Eureka (1984).

Hackman is a versatile star who can play the blind man in the comedy Young Frankenstein (1974) to the evil Lex Luthor in Superman (1978). He is the doctor who puts his work above people in Extreme Measures (1996) and the captain on the edge of nuclear destruction in Crimson Tide (1995).

After initially turning down the role of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven (1992), Hackman finally accepted it as a different slant on the Western that interested him. For his performance, he won the Oscar and Golden Globe and decided that he was not tired of Westerns after all.

He has since appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994) and The Quick and the Dead (1995).

2 February 1930 Andruga, Poland (now Ukraine)

Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985)
... aka Who Is That Man?

Kamienne tablice (1984) .... Poet Jan Tokarski
... aka Stone Tablets

Szkoda twoich lez (1984)
... aka Tears Won't Help

Gwiezdny pyl (1982)

Polonia restituta (1981) .... Paderewski

Krakh operatsii Terror (1980) .... Dzerzhinsky
... aka Fiasco of Operation Terror
... aka Krach operacji Terror

Na wlasna prosbe (1980) .... Laskowski
... aka At Your Own Request

Urodziny mlodego Warszawiaka (1980)
... aka The Birthday

"Strachy" (1979) (mini) TV Series .... Zygmunt Modecki
Elixiere des Teufels, Die (1973)

Czekam w Monte-Carlo (1969) .... Gunar Anderson
... aka I'll Be Waiting in Monte Carlo (International: English title: literal title)

Weekend z dziewczyna (1968) .... Dr. Stanny
... aka Weekend with a Girl

Przedswiateczny wieczor (1966) .... Andrzej Zapala
... aka Christmas Eve
... aka Evening Before Christmas

Niedziela sprawiedliwosci (1966)
... aka A Sunday of Justice

Poznanskie slowiki (1966)
... aka Nightingales of Poznan

Walkower (1965) .... Conglomerate Manager
... aka Walkover (USA)

Pierwszy dzien wolnosci (1965) .... Hieronym
... aka The First Day of Freedom (International: English title: video title)

Zycie raz jeszcze (1965) .... Partisants Commander
... aka Życie raz jeszcze (Poland)
... aka Back to Life Again

Barwy walki (1964)
... aka Battle Colours

Zloto (1963) .... Engineer
... aka Gold Dreams

23 January 1930 Inwood, Iowa, USA

Was nominated for Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Little Me."

Alice in Wonderland (1983) (TV) .... Gryphon

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) .... Gigolo