Acting

Gene Hackman

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).

Credits

Newest first

Breakdown: 1975
as Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Playboy Murders
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Pattern Recognition
as Self (archive footage)
2017
We, the Marines
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
as Self - Narrator
2016
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
2013
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2009
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
2008
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
as Self
2007
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Lex Luthor
2006
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Welcome to Mooseport
as Monroe Cole
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Narrator
2004
Runaway Jury
as Rankin Fitch
2003
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
as Self
2002
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
as Self
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001
Heist
as Joe Moore
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Royal Tenenbaum
2001
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
as Self
2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
as Narrator / Self
2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
as Self - Host / Narrator
2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
2001
Heartbreakers
as William B. Tensy
2001
The Mexican
as Margolese
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
2000
Under Suspicion
as Henry Hearst
2000
Under Suspicion
Executive Producer
2000
The Replacements
as Jimmy McGinty
2000
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
as Self
2000
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Narrator (voice)
1999
The Directors
as Self
1999
Enemy of the State
as Brill
1998
Antz
as General Mandible (voice)
1998
Twilight
as Jack Ames
1998
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Absolute Power
as President Richmond
1997
The Chamber
as Sam Cayhall
1996
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1996
The Birdcage
as Senator Kevin Keeley
1996
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
as Blind Man (archive footage)
1996
Get Shorty
as Harry Zimm
1995
Crimson Tide
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
1995
The Quick and the Dead
as Herod
1995
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
as Self
1995
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
as Self
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
1994
Wyatt Earp
as Nicholas Earp
1994
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
1993
The Firm
as Avery Tolar
1993
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
1992
Unforgiven
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
1992
Company Business
as Sam Boyd
1991
Class Action
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
1991
Narrow Margin
as Robert Caulfield
1990
Postcards from the Edge
as Lowell Kolchek
1990
Miami Blues
Thanks
1990
Loose Cannons
as MacArthur Stern
1990
The Package
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1989
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Rupert Anderson
1988
Full Moon in Blue Water
as Floyd
1988
Another Woman
as Larry
1988
Bat★21
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
1988
Split Decisions
as Dan McGuinn
1988
No Way Out
as Defense Secretary David Brice
1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lex Luthor
1987
Hoosiers
as Norman Dale
1986
American Masters
as Self
1986