Gene Hackman
Acting
Born 1930-01-30 · 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).
Known for
Unforgiven
1992 · Movie
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Movie
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Movie
The Conversation
1974 · Movie
The French Connection
1971 · Movie
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Movie
Crimson Tide
1995 · Movie
The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Movie
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Movie
Superman
1978 · Movie
Enemy of the State
1998 · Movie
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Movie
Scarecrow
1973 · Movie
The Birdcage
1996 · Movie
Hoosiers
1986 · Movie
Runaway Jury
2003 · Movie
No Way Out
1987 · Movie
Reds
1981 · Movie
Another Woman
1988 · Movie
Wyatt Earp
1994 · Movie
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · Movie
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Movie
French Connection II
1975 · Movie
Superman II
1980 · Movie
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · Movie
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
The Firm
1993 · Movie
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983 · Movie
Night Moves
1975 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994 · Movie
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000 · Movie
The Replacements
2000 · Movie
First to Fight
1967 · Movie
Under Fire
1983 · Movie
Absolute Power
1997 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Movie
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001 · Movie
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Movie
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Movie
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978 · Movie
Shadow on the Land
1968 · Movie
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001 · Movie
The Split
1968 · Movie
I Never Sang for My Father
1970 · Movie
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995 · Movie
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002 · Movie
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Movie
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001 · Movie
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · Movie
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001 · Movie
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973 · Movie
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
Pattern Recognition
2017 · Movie
Shurtleff on Acting
1994 · Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992 · Movie
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019 · Movie