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Hackman famously played Lex Luthor opposite Christopher Reeve's Superman, but he was known for being a man of steel himself. As a 16-year-old boy, he lied about his age to join the Marines in 1946.

His Lex Luthor was ambition incarnate, which made him smart and foolhardy enough to regularly tussle with the Man Of Steel. Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, the tenacious detective of The French ...

He played the supervillain Lex Luthor in Superman, Superman II and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Gene also starred in the hit movies Runaway Jury, The French Connection, The Royal Tenenbaums ...

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So beloved is Hackman as this character that his Lex Luthor is even referenced and shown via archival photographs in modern-day pop culture properties like the 2025 feature Superboys of Malegaon.

Three years later, he put his comic chops to work again as Lex Luthor in the original “Superman.” “I was very reluctant to do it at first,” Hackman once said of the superhero flick.