
Gene Hackman
Acting
Born 1930-01-30 · San Bernardino, California, USA · Died 2025-02-17
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).
Acting

Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)

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

Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)

The Playboy Murders
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)

Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)

We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Self

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Self - Narrator (voice)

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)

Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator

Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage)

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self

Behind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

Heist
Joe Moore

The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self

Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Himself/Narrator

