http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/10/09/screengrab-salutes-the-top-25-leading-men-of-all-time-part-two.aspx20. GENE HACKMAN (1930 - ) Hackman was 33 when he made his movie debut in Robert Rossen's Lilith ; he got to play a scene with Warren Beatty, who, admiring his colleague's mastery of his craft and maybe also thinking that his potato-faced plainnessenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)