Gene Hackman
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 (152 titles)
6.8MovieBreakdown: 1975
(archive footage) · 2025
6.5MovieThe Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (archive footage) · 2025
7.2MovieRemembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage) · 2024
7.6ShowThe Playboy Murders
Self (archive footage) · 2023
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage) · 2021
MovieSacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage) · 2019
MoviePattern Recognition
Self (archive footage) · 2017
5.4MovieWe, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2017
MovieThe Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator · 2016
7.2MovieElectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2014
6.1MovieEastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self · 2013
6.9MovieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self · 2009
4.6MovieRevolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self · 2008
6.8ShowDiners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self · 2007
8.0ShowAmerica's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2006
7.4MovieSuperman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor · 2006
MovieShipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice) · 2005
5.1MovieWelcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole · 2004
6.6MovieImaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator · 2004
6.9MovieRunaway Jury
Rankin Fitch · 2003
6.5MoviePage to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self · 2002
7.4MovieEastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self · 2002
7.3MovieAll on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self · 2002
6.9MovieOnce Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage) · 2001
7.0MovieWith the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self · 2001
6.4MovieBehind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group · 2001
6.3MovieHeist
Joe Moore · 2001
7.5MovieThe Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum · 2001
7.0MovieMaking the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self · 2001
MovieWill Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Himself/Narrator · 2001