Director Richard Donner, left, gave us the ultimate movie ... Donner also had no qualms about telling Gene Hackman to shave his mustache. He spent most of a year plugging away at the special ...

Over the last 24 hours, tributes have been pouring in for Richard Donner, who died yesterday ... up tests for Superman with a fine Lex Luthor moustache I’d grown for the role,” said Hackman.