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Gene Hackman Trivia
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- Was involved in a road-rage incident when two young men attacked him for hitting their car in Hollywood in 2001.
- Jailed as a teen (c. 1946) for stealing candy & soda pop from a convenience store
- After he played Little Bill in Unforgiven (1992), Hackman vowed not to appear in any more violent films. After he had been in violent films dating back to Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The French Connection (1971) (in a role refused by Peter Boyle for the same reasons), he said he was fed up with them.
- Often says he wants to quit acting in films, but that every time he has time off away from the set, he starts to miss it and wants to start another film.
- Has appeared in three films adapted from novels by John Grisham: The Firm (1993), The Chamber (1996) and Runaway Jury (2003).
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