Gene Hackman, born on Jan. 30 ... Smoking also had a tragic connection to Hackman’s past, as his mother, Lydia, died in 1962 from injuries caused by a fire that started due to her own smoking.

Gene Hackman was never going to be a dreamboat like Robert Redford or Paul Newman. As a young actor, he didn't have the piercing blue eyes, the chiselled jaw or the boyish golden locks.

Eugene Allen 'Gene' Hackman (born January 30 ... (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The ...