Gene Hackman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 30, 1930
- Died
- Feb 17, 2025 (aged 95)
- Place of birth
- San Bernardino, California, USA
- Credits
- 154
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988).
Known for
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
2025Movie
Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Playboy Murders
2023TV
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019Movie
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
2017Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016Movie
Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014Movie
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013Movie
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009Movie
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008Movie
Self
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007TV
Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006Movie
Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005Movie
Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
2004Movie
Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004Movie
Narrator
Runaway Jury
2003Movie
Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002Movie
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002Movie
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002Movie
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001Movie
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001Movie
Self
Behind Enemy Lines
2001Movie
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
2001Movie
Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001Movie
Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001Movie
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001Movie
Narrator / Self
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001Movie
Self - Host / Narrator
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001Movie
Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001Movie
Self
Heartbreakers
2001Movie
William B. Tensy
The Mexican
2001Movie
Margolese
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000Movie
Self
Under Suspicion
2000Movie
Henry Hearst
The Replacements
2000Movie
Jimmy McGinty
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000Movie
Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Directors
1999TV
Self
Enemy of the State
1998Movie
Brill
Antz
1998Movie
General Mandible (voice)
Twilight
1998Movie
Jack Ames
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997Movie
Self (archive footage)
Absolute Power
1997Movie
President Richmond
The Chamber
1996Movie
Sam Cayhall
Extreme Measures
1996Movie
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Birdcage
1996Movie
Senator Kevin Keeley
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996Movie
Blind Man (archive footage)
Get Shorty
1995Movie
Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide
1995Movie
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead
1995Movie
Herod
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995Movie
Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994Movie
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Shurtleff on Acting
1994Movie
Self
Wyatt Earp
1994Movie
Nicholas Earp
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993Movie
Brig. Gen. George Crook
The Firm
1993Movie
Avery Tolar
Earth and the American Dream
1992Movie
Reader (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992Movie
Self
Unforgiven
1992Movie
'Little' Bill Daggett
Company Business
1991Movie
Sam Boyd
Class Action
1991Movie
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Narrow Margin
1990Movie
Robert Caulfield
Postcards from the Edge
1990Movie
Lowell Kolchek
Loose Cannons
1990Movie
MacArthur Stern
The Package
1989Movie
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Mississippi Burning
1988Movie
Agent Rupert Anderson
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988Movie
Floyd
Another Woman
1988Movie
Larry
Bat★21
1988Movie
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Split Decisions
1988Movie
Dan McGuinn
No Way Out
1987Movie
Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987Movie
Lex Luthor
Hoosiers
1986Movie
Norman Dale
American Masters
1986TV
Self
Power
1986Movie
Wilfred Buckley
Target
1985Movie
Walter Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime
1985Movie
Harry MacKenzie
Larry King Live
1985TV
Self
Uncommon Valor
1983Movie
Col. Cal Rhodes
Two of a Kind
1983Movie
God (voice) (uncredited)
Misunderstood
1983Movie
Ned Rawley
Under Fire
1983Movie
Alex Grazier
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983Movie
Self
Eureka
1983Movie
Jack McCann
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982Movie
Self
Reds
1981Movie
Pete van Wherry
Entertainment Tonight
1981TV
Self
All Night Long
1981Movie
George Dupler
Superman II
1980Movie
Lex Luthor
Superman
1978Movie
Lex Luthor
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978Movie
Self
The South Bank Show
1978TV
Self
Ciné regards
1978TV
Self
March or Die
1977Movie
Major William Sherman Foster
The Hollywood Greats
1977TV
A Bridge Too Far
1977Movie
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Domino Principle
1977Movie
Tucker
Lucky Lady
1975Movie
Kibby
Bite the Bullet
1975Movie
Sam Clayton
Night Moves
1975Movie
Harry Moseby
French Connection II
1975Movie
"Popeye" Doyle
Young Frankenstein
1974Movie
Blindman
Dinah!
1974TV
Self
Zandy's Bride
1974Movie
Zandy Allen
The Conversation
1974Movie
Harry Caul
Scarecrow
1973Movie
Max Millan
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973TV
Self
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973Movie
Self
The Poseidon Adventure
1972Movie
Reverend Scott
Prime Cut
1972Movie
Mary Ann
Cisco Pike
1972Movie
Officer Leo Holland
Film '72
1971TV
Self
The French Connection
1971Movie
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
The Hunting Party
1971Movie
Brandt Ruger
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971TV
Self
Doctors' Wives
1971Movie
Dave Randolph
I Never Sang for My Father
1970Movie
Gene Garrison
Marooned
1969Movie
Buzz Lloyd
Downhill Racer
1969Movie
Eugene Claire
The Gypsy Moths
1969Movie
Joe Browdy
Riot
1969Movie
Red Fraker
The Sky Divers
1969Movie
Self
Shadow on the Land
1968Movie
Rev. Thomas Davis
The Split
1968Movie
Lt. Walter Brill
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self
Banning
1967Movie
Tommy Del Gaddo
Bonnie and Clyde
1967Movie
Buck Barrow
A Covenant with Death
1967Movie
Harmsworth
First to Fight
1967Movie
Sergeant Tweed
The Invaders
1967TV
Tom Jessup
CBS Playhouse
1966TV
Ned
Hawaii
1966Movie
John Whipple
Hawk
1966TV
The F.B.I.
1965TV
Herb Kenyon
The Trials of O'Brien
1965TV
Roger Nathan
Lilith
1964Movie
Norman
East Side/West Side
1963TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961TV
Douglas McCann
The Defenders
1961TV
Stanley McGuirk
Mad Dog Coll
1961Movie
Cop (uncredited)
Tallahassee 7000
1961TV
Joe Lawson
Route 66
1960TV
Motorist
Naked City
1958TV
Mr. Jasper
The United States Steel Hour
1953TV
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient, Self - Nominee / Presenter
Close-Up on The Conversation
Movie