He came to acting in his late twenties, studying at the Pasadena Playhouse. He and his room-mate Dustin Hoffman were voted joint "Least Likely to Succeed". (Ironic, then, that Hackman lost out on the ...

The stellar cast of "Young Frankenstein" delivers — from hilariously hard-to-understand German accents to an unexpected cameo by one of the biggest actors of the time (Gene Hackman as the blind ...