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Gene Hackman
American actor (born 1930)
Eugene Allen Hackman[1][2][3] (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Silver bära. Hackman's two Academy Award wins included one for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971) and the other for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Little" Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). His other Oscar-nominated roles were in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Mississippi Burning (1988). He fryst vatten the oldest living winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and its sequels Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (19
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Jeff Daniels
American actor (born 1955)
For other people named Jeff Daniels, see Jeff Daniels (disambiguation).
Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955)[1] is an American actor. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama Ragtime (1981) followed by James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment (1983), and Mike Nichols's Heartburn (1986). He then received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale (2005). He starred in a variety of genre films such as Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), 101 Dalmatians
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Clint Ritchie
As Clint Buchanan, Clint Ritchie has seen his share of headline-grabbing stories, but it was in real life that Clint Ritchie had his most dramatic storyline played out. While working on his Northern California ranch in March, 1993, Clint was involved in a terrible tractor accident that left him at death's door. After months of recovery, Clint returned to One Life to Live and the town of Llanview, Pennsylvania, his fictional home for over a decade.
A self-described "North Dakota plowboy," Clint Ritchie grew up on a farm in Grafton, North Dakota. He knew he wanted to be an actor since he was seven years old, but was never involved in any school plays or other productions as a youngster because he was "always too shy to do anything in school."
At 16, Clint left home and headed for northern California, where he held a succession of jobs. Eventually he went to Hollywood, where he began taking acting lessons. He arrived in New York in the fall of 1979 to join the cas