Gene Hackman
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday30 January 1930
Died17 February 2025 (age 95)
Place of birthSan Bernardino, California, USA
Known credits156
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 i…
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
2026 · Harry Caul
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Playboy Murders
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017 · Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016 · Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013 · Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Self
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007 · Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 · Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · Narrator
Runaway Jury
2003 · Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002 · Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002 · Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001 · Self
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
2001 · Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001 · Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001 · Himself/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001 · Self - Host/Narrator
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001 · Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001 · Self
Heartbreakers
2001 · William B. Tensy
The Mexican
2001 · Margolese
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Self
Under Suspicion
2000 · Henry Hearst
Under Suspicion
2000 · Executive Producer
The Replacements
2000 · Jimmy McGinty
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000 · Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999 · Narrator (voice)
The Directors
1999 · Self
Enemy of the State
1998 · Brill
Antz
1998 · General Mandible (voice)
Twilight
1998 · Jack Ames
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Absolute Power
1997 · President Richmond
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