Turns out, that although he was very much a rich man, Hackman was not on the same level as his billionaire alter-ego, the Superman villain, Lex Luthor. Here's what Gene Hackman's net worth was ...

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.

However, in a strange twist of comic book fate, Luthor’s most culturally pervasive moment—the infamous “40 cakes” incident—didn’t originate in the pages of a mainstream Superman comic ...

Lex Luthor is a DC villain unlike any other, which makes sense given that he fights Superman. The number of villains who have ...

To many, he will always be Superman supervillain Lex Luthor, but with a career spanning six decades, Gene Hackman's acting CV was as varied as it was long. A former Marine, his work on the screen ...

I also learned that Lex Luthor almost looked very, very different. Hackman appeared three times as Lex Luthor in the Superman franchise including in the first film in 1978 opposite Christopher Reeve.