20 celebrities that disappeared after one big hit

2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival - Source: Getty
2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival - Source: Getty

11) ⁠Gene Hackman

18th Annual L.A. Film Critics Association Awards - Source: Getty
18th Annual L.A. Film Critics Association Awards - Source: Getty

Gene Hackman is another Hollywood legend, with his The French Connection and Unforgiven. Active in the industry for about four decades, Hackman retired in 2004 after Welcome to Mooseport.

In retirement, he stays behind a desk writing novels. Today, his life is very quiet: he hardly, if at all, makes public appearances. His absence from Hollywood has only made his mystique deeper, but fans today yearn for those intense and riveting performances.

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Edited by Priscillah Mueni