Gene Hackman
Actor
Born January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California, USA
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).
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
The Playboy Murders
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Self - Narrator (voice)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator
Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self
Behind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Himself/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Self - Host/Narrator
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
Heartbreakers
William B. Tensy
The Mexican
Arnold Margolese
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
Under Suspicion
Henry Hearst
The Replacements
Jimmy McGinty
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Self
The Directors
Self
Enemy of the State
Brill
Antz
General Mandible (voice)
Twilight
Jack Ames
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Absolute Power
President Richmond
The Chamber
Sam Cayhall
Extreme Measures
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Birdcage
Senator Kevin Keeley
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Blind Man (archive footage)
Get Shorty
Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead
Herod
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Shurtleff on Acting
Self
Wyatt Earp
Nicholas Earp
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Geronimo: An American Legend
Brig. Gen. George Crook
The Firm
Avery Tolar
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
Unforgiven
'Little' Bill Daggett
Company Business
Sam Boyd
Class Action
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Narrow Margin
Robert Caulfield
Postcards from the Edge
Lowell Kolchek
Miami Blues
Loose Cannons
MacArthur Stern
The Package
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Mississippi Burning
Agent Rupert Anderson
Full Moon in Blue Water
Floyd
Another Woman
Larry
Bat★21
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Split Decisions
Dan McGuinn
No Way Out
Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Lex Luthor
Hoosiers
Norman Dale
American Masters
Self
Power
Wilfred Buckley
Target
Walter Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime
Harry MacKenzie
Larry King Live
Self
Uncommon Valor
Col. Cal Rhodes
Two of a Kind
God (voice) (uncredited)
Misunderstood
Ned Rawley
Under Fire
Alex Grazier
The Making of 'Superman II'
Self
Eureka
Jack McCann
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
Reds
Pete van Wherry
Entertainment Tonight
Self
All Night Long
George Dupler
Superman II
Lex Luthor
Superman
Lex Luthor
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Self
The South Bank Show
Self
March or Die
Major William Sherman Foster
The Hollywood Greats
A Bridge Too Far
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Domino Principle
Tucker
Lucky Lady
Kibby
Bite the Bullet
Sam Clayton
Night Moves
Harry Moseby
French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle
Young Frankenstein
Blindman
Dinah!
Self
Zandy's Bride
Zandy Allen
The Conversation
Harry Caul
Scarecrow
Max Millan
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
On the Road with: Scarecrow
Self
The Poseidon Adventure
Reverend Scott
Prime Cut
Mary Ann
Cisco Pike
Officer Leo Holland
The French Connection
Jimmy Doyle
The Hunting Party
Brandt Ruger
Doctors' Wives
Dave Randolph
I Never Sang for My Father
Gene Garrison
Marooned
Buzz Lloyd
Downhill Racer
Eugene Claire
The Gypsy Moths
Joe Browdy
Riot
Red Fraker
The Sky Divers
Self
Shadow on the Land
Rev. Thomas Davis
The Split
Lt. Walter Brill
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Banning
Tommy Del Gaddo
Bonnie and Clyde
Buck Barrow
A Covenant with Death
Harmsworth
First to Fight
Sergeant Tweed
The Invaders
Tom Jessup
Hawaii
John Whipple
Hawk
The F.B.I.
Herb Kenyon
The Trials of O'Brien
Roger Nathan
Lilith
Norman
East Side/West Side
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The DuPont Show of the Week
Douglas McCann
The Defenders
Stanley McGuirk
Mad Dog Coll
Cop (uncredited)
Tallahassee 7000
Joe Lawson
Route 66
Motorist
Naked City
Mr. Jasper
The United States Steel Hour
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee