Gene Hackman’s Net Worth: How Much Did the Legendary Actor Earn from His Career?

Gene Hackman’s Net Worth: Regina King, South African-American actress, and filmmaker, has had a very successful career with numerous awards won for her work in the film, television series, and small-screen films. With this, astounding net worth, she left the world two years ago at age 95, leaving her admirers in awe in February 2026.

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With a keen eye on detail, the exact net worth of Regina according to the Celebrity Net worth aficionados was pegged at something around $56 million. Amongst several film genres, the highest paying one for the Academy of Award-winning former actress was Superman, which brought her $2 million. Her hollywooding ways made her additional earnings as well. She would have managed to put two drama roles of Tony Award-winning directors, Dominique Dunne, and Terry O'Quinn. For what he did in The French Connection itself, Hackman earned a mere $100,000, but later, he would ask for $1.3 million each for his jobs in The Quick and the Dead and Lucky Lady, as reported by thegrio.

Hackman stopped acting in films in 2004 and since then, has turned to become a writer alongside Daniel Lenihan as well in three great novels of historical fiction, which includes Wake of the Perdido Star in 1999, Justice for None in 2004, and Escape from Andersonville in 2008. Other books he pursued were solo writing, namely Payback in 2011, distributed, Pursuit in 2013, which prompted Parade magazine to illustrate his story-telling capacities and of course, passion for creating art beyond the silver screen.

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That illustrious career had more achievements to include and had its origin in a very long list of cinema, television, and theatrical credits. He had his breakthrough with three movies-Prime Cut, The Poseidon Adventure, Cisco Pike, and Night Moves. His role as Lex Luthor in the Superman (1978) film became an iconic piece that let him carry that role to Superman II alongside other films.

A star of such classic films as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Birdcage, Hackman was in 2004's Welcome to Mooseport, where Romano was his costar. It was Gene Hack's last film year. He announced that he would no longer be able to act in 2008.

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