Gene Hackman

Born: 1930-01-30 in San Bernardino, California, USA

Died: 2025-02-17

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

2025

Breakdown: 1975 as (archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special as Self (archive footage)

2024

Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)

2023

The Playboy Murders as Self (archive footage)

2021

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)

2019

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence as Self (archive footage)

2017

Pattern Recognition as Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines as Self - Narrator (voice)

2003

Runaway Jury as Rankin Fitch

2002

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger as Self

2001

Behind Enemy Lines as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
The Royal Tenenbaums as Royal Tenenbaum
The Mexican as Arnold Margolese
Heartbreakers as William B. Tensy
Heist as Joe Moore
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson as Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend as Self
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' as Self
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection as Self
Heroes of Iwo Jima as Self - Host/Narrator
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe as Himself/Narrator

2000

The Replacements as Jimmy McGinty
Under Suspicion as Henry Hearst
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' as Self

1999

The Directors as Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Narrator (voice)

1998

Enemy of the State as Brill
Antz as General Mandible (voice)
Twilight as Jack Ames

1997

Absolute Power as President Richmond
Sports on the Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)

1996

The Birdcage as Senator Kevin Keeley
Extreme Measures as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Chamber as Sam Cayhall
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein as Blind Man (archive footage)

1995

Crimson Tide as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead as Herod
Get Shorty as Harry Zimm
The Making of 'Crimson Tide' as Self

1994

Wyatt Earp as Nicholas Earp
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso as Self
Shurtleff on Acting as Self

1993

The Firm as Avery Tolar
Geronimo: An American Legend as Brig. Gen. George Crook

1992

Unforgiven as 'Little' Bill Daggett
Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self

1991

Class Action as Jedediah Tucker Ward
Company Business as Sam Boyd

1990

Narrow Margin as Robert Caulfield
Postcards from the Edge as Lowell Kolchek
Miami Blues ... (Thanks)
Loose Cannons as MacArthur Stern

1989

The Package as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

1988

Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson
Another Woman as Larry
Bat★21 as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Split Decisions as Dan McGuinn
Full Moon in Blue Water as Floyd

1987

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Lex Luthor
No Way Out as Defense Secretary David Brice

1986

American Masters as Self
Hoosiers as Norman Dale
Power as Wilfred Buckley

1985

Larry King Live as Self
Target as Walter Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime as Harry MacKenzie

1983

Uncommon Valor as Col. Cal Rhodes
Under Fire as Alex Grazier
Two of a Kind as God (voice) (uncredited)
Eureka as Jack McCann
Misunderstood as Ned Rawley
The Making of 'Superman II' as Self

1982

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self

1981

Entertainment Tonight as Self
Reds as Pete van Wherry
All Night Long as George Dupler

1980

Superman II as Lex Luthor

1978

The South Bank Show as Self
Superman as Lex Luthor
Formula 1 - Speed fever as Self

1977

The Domino Principle as Tucker
A Bridge Too Far as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Hollywood Greats
March or Die as Major William Sherman Foster

1975

Night Moves as Harry Moseby
Bite the Bullet as Sam Clayton
French Connection II as "Popeye" Doyle
Lucky Lady as Kibby

1974

Dinah! as Self
Young Frankenstein as Blindman
The Conversation as Harry Caul
Zandy's Bride as Zandy Allen

1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
Scarecrow as Max Millan
On the Road with: Scarecrow as Self

1972

The Poseidon Adventure as Reverend Scott
Prime Cut as Mary Ann
Cisco Pike as Officer Leo Holland

1971

Film '72 as Self
The French Connection as Jimmy Doyle
V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
The Hunting Party as Brandt Ruger
Doctors' Wives as Dave Randolph

1970

I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison

1969

Downhill Racer as Eugene Claire
Marooned as Buzz Lloyd
The Gypsy Moths as Joe Browdy
Riot as Red Fraker
The Sky Divers as Self

1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
The Split as Lt. Walter Brill
Shadow on the Land as Rev. Thomas Davis

1967

The Invaders as Tom Jessup
Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
Banning as Tommy Del Gaddo
A Covenant with Death as Harmsworth
First to Fight as Sergeant Tweed

1966

CBS Playhouse as Ned
Hawk
Hawaii as John Whipple

1965

The F.B.I. as Herb Kenyon
The Trials of O'Brien as Roger Nathan

1964

Lilith as Norman

1963

East Side/West Side

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self
The Defenders as Stanley McGuirk
The DuPont Show of the Week as Douglas McCann
Tallahassee 7000 as Joe Lawson
Mad Dog Coll as Cop (uncredited)

1960

Route 66 as Motorist

1958

Naked City as Mr. Jasper

1953

The Oscars as Self
The United States Steel Hour

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee