Gene Hackman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1930-01-30

Day of Death

2025-02-17

Place of Birth

San Bernardino, California, USA

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).

Filmography (119)

⭐ 6.8 Role: (archive footage)

Breakdown: 1975

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

⭐ 5.0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Pattern Recognition

⭐ 5.4 Role: Self - Narrator (voice)

We, the Marines

⭐ 0 Role: Self - Narrator

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

⭐ 7.2 Role: Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

⭐ 6.1 Role: Self

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

⭐ 4.6 Role: Self

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

⭐ 7.4 Role: Lex Luthor

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

⭐ 5.1 Role: Monroe Cole

Welcome to Mooseport

⭐ 6.6 Role: Narrator

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

⭐ 6.9 Role: Rankin Fitch

Runaway Jury

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

⭐ 7.4 Role: Self

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

⭐ 7.3 Role: Self

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

⭐ 6.9 Role: Lex Luthor (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

⭐ 6.4 Role: Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

Behind Enemy Lines

⭐ 6.3 Role: Joe Moore

Heist

⭐ 7.5 Role: Royal Tenenbaum

The Royal Tenenbaums

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

⭐ 0 Role: Himself/Narrator

Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

⭐ 6.1 Role: Self - Host/Narrator

Heroes of Iwo Jima

⭐ 7.6 Role: Self

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

⭐ 6.1 Role: William B. Tensy

Heartbreakers

⭐ 6.0 Role: Arnold Margolese

The Mexican

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

⭐ 6.1 Role: Henry Hearst

Under Suspicion

⭐ 6.7 Role: Jimmy McGinty

The Replacements

⭐ 8.1 Role: Self

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

⭐ 7.8 Role: Narrator (voice)

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

⭐ 7.1 Role: Brill

Enemy of the State

⭐ 6.2 Role: General Mandible (voice)

Antz

⭐ 6.1 Role: Jack Ames

Twilight

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Sports on the Silver Screen

⭐ 6.7 Role: President Richmond

Absolute Power

⭐ 6.0 Role: Sam Cayhall

The Chamber

⭐ 6.0 Role: Dr. Lawrence Myrick

Extreme Measures

⭐ 7.1 Role: Senator Kevin Keeley

The Birdcage

⭐ 8.3 Role: Blind Man (archive footage)

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

⭐ 6.5 Role: Harry Zimm

Get Shorty

⭐ 7.2 Role: Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey

Crimson Tide

⭐ 6.5 Role: Herod

The Quick and the Dead

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

⭐ 7.4 Role: Self

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Shurtleff on Acting

⭐ 6.8 Role: Nicholas Earp

Wyatt Earp

⭐ 6.3 Role: Brig. Gen. George Crook

Geronimo: An American Legend

⭐ 6.7 Role: Avery Tolar

The Firm

⭐ 6.7 Role: Reader (voice)

Earth and the American Dream

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

⭐ 7.9 Role: 'Little' Bill Daggett

Unforgiven

⭐ 5.2 Role: Sam Boyd

Company Business

⭐ 6.3 Role: Jedediah Tucker Ward

Class Action

⭐ 6.5 Role: Robert Caulfield

Narrow Margin

⭐ 6.6 Role: Lowell Kolchek

Postcards from the Edge

⭐ 5.1 Role: MacArthur Stern

Loose Cannons

⭐ 6.1 Role: Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

The Package

⭐ 7.7 Role: Agent Rupert Anderson

Mississippi Burning

⭐ 6.1 Role: Floyd

Full Moon in Blue Water

⭐ 6.8 Role: Larry

Another Woman

⭐ 6.3 Role: Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

Bat★21

⭐ 5.1 Role: Dan McGuinn

Split Decisions

⭐ 6.9 Role: Defense Secretary David Brice

No Way Out

⭐ 4.6 Role: Lex Luthor

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

⭐ 7.0 Role: Coach Norman Dale

Hoosiers

⭐ 5.9 Role: Wilfred Buckley

Power

⭐ 5.9 Role: Walter Lloyd

Target

⭐ 5.8 Role: Harry MacKenzie

Twice in a Lifetime

⭐ 6.3 Role: Col. Cal Rhodes

Uncommon Valor

⭐ 5.9 Role: God (voice) (uncredited)

Two of a Kind

⭐ 6.7 Role: Ned Rawley

Misunderstood

⭐ 6.7 Role: Alex Grazier

Under Fire

⭐ 7.6 Role: Self

The Making of 'Superman II'

⭐ 5.3 Role: Jack McCann

Eureka

⭐ 6.6 Role: Self

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

⭐ 6.9 Role: Pete van Wherry

Reds

⭐ 5.2 Role: George Dupler

All Night Long

⭐ 6.8 Role: Lex Luthor

Superman II

⭐ 7.2 Role: Lex Luthor

Superman

⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

Formula 1 - Speed fever

⭐ 5.8 Role: Major William Sherman Foster

March or Die

⭐ 7.2 Role: Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski

A Bridge Too Far

⭐ 5.9 Role: Tucker

The Domino Principle

⭐ 5.5 Role: Kibby

Lucky Lady

⭐ 6.5 Role: Sam Clayton

Bite the Bullet

⭐ 6.7 Role: Harry Moseby

Night Moves

⭐ 6.8 Role: "Popeye" Doyle

French Connection II

⭐ 7.9 Role: Blindman

Young Frankenstein

⭐ 6.3 Role: Zandy Allen

Zandy's Bride

⭐ 7.5 Role: Harry Caul

The Conversation

⭐ 7.1 Role: Max Millan

Scarecrow

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

On the Road with: Scarecrow

⭐ 7.1 Role: Reverend Scott

The Poseidon Adventure

⭐ 6.4 Role: Mary Ann

Prime Cut

⭐ 5.7 Role: Officer Leo Holland

Cisco Pike

⭐ 7.5 Role: Jimmy Doyle

The French Connection

⭐ 6.1 Role: Brandt Ruger

The Hunting Party

⭐ 4.9 Role: Dave Randolph

Doctors' Wives

⭐ 6.7 Role: Gene Garrison

I Never Sang for My Father

⭐ 6.0 Role: Buzz Lloyd

Marooned

⭐ 5.9 Role: Eugene Claire

Downhill Racer

⭐ 6.1 Role: Joe Browdy

The Gypsy Moths

⭐ 5.3 Role: Red Fraker

Riot

⭐ 0 Role: Self

The Sky Divers

⭐ 7.7 Role: Rev. Thomas Davis

Shadow on the Land

⭐ 6.7 Role: Lt. Walter Brill

The Split

⭐ 5.8 Role: Tommy Del Gaddo

Banning

⭐ 7.5 Role: Buck Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde

⭐ 4.8 Role: Harmsworth

A Covenant with Death

⭐ 7.9 Role: Sergeant Tweed

First to Fight

⭐ 6.3 Role: John Whipple

Hawaii

⭐ 6.4 Role: Norman

Lilith

⭐ 5.4 Role: Cop (uncredited)

Mad Dog Coll