You know Gene Hackman from his greatest hits like "The French Connection." But did you know he played an ant? Here's 5 surprising Hackman roles.

Although he was a legend on the silver screen, Gene Hackman's commitment to the glamorous ... wouldn't be seen as being that needy,' he told Cigar Aficionado in 2000. 'I was just barely hanging ...

Though he’d had small roles in movies and on television throughout the early 1960s (he’d been a Marine before that, and had studied journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill), Hackman was ...

The late, great Gene Hackman makes a hilarious cameo appearance in Young Frankenstein — and he improvised one of the funniest lines in the movie.

Gene Hackman and his daughters attend a celebrity baseball game in Hollywood circa 1975-1985. Getty Images In 2000, Hackman told to Cigar Aficionado that he “used to borrow” one of his ...

Gene Hackman. The finest screen actor ever, I think. Not a single duff performance, in a long, long career. And the best delivery ever of a single word: when he says “Cigars!” In Young ...

The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a ...

Nobody can lose their shit and start yelling quite like Gene Hackman. The actor, who was discovered dead in his home at the age of 95 this week ( under bizarre-sounding circumstances ), appeared in ...

New Mexico authorities have revealed actor Gene Hackman may have died nearly 10 days before his body was found. The actor, his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, along with a dog, were found dead by ...