Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 30, 1930
Died
Feb 17, 2025
Place of Birth
San Bernardino, California, USA
Credits
154 titles
Gene Hackman
Biography
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
Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- 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)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
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
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
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
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Narrator (voice)
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)