Gene Hackman – Age 91

Gene Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, whose career lasted from 1956 to 2004. He won one Oscar for his role n The French Connection and another for Unforgiven. Heckman was also nominated three more times for roles in Bonnie and Clyde, I Never Sang for My Father, and Mississippi Burning.

Although Heckman did retire in 2004, after a role in Welcome to Mooseport, he did briefly come back to narrate two TV documentary movies in 2016 and 2017. He’s turned to a career as a novelist and has published several books, some as a co-author, and two as a solo writer titled Payback at Morning Peak and Pursuit.