Gene Hackman
Acting
1930-01-30 · San Bernardino, California, USA
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
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025 · Movie
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
The Playboy Murders
2023 · Series
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Movie
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019 · Movie
Pattern Recognition
2017 · Movie
We, the Marines
2017 · Movie
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016 · Movie
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Movie
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013 · Movie
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Movie
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Movie
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007 · Series
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · Series
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Movie
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005 · Movie
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 · Movie
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · Movie
Runaway Jury
2003 · Movie
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002 · Movie
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002 · Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Movie
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · Movie
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001 · Movie
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · Movie
Heist
2001 · Movie
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Movie
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001 · Movie
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001 · Movie
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001 · Movie
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001 · Movie
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001 · Movie
Heartbreakers
2001 · Movie
The Mexican
2001 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Movie
Under Suspicion
2000 · Movie
The Replacements
2000 · Movie
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000 · Movie
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999 · Movie
The Directors
1999 · Series
Enemy of the State
1998 · Movie
Antz
1998 · Movie
Twilight
1998 · Movie
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Movie
Absolute Power
1997 · Movie
The Chamber
1996 · Movie
Extreme Measures
1996 · Movie
The Birdcage
1996 · Movie
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · Movie
Get Shorty
1995 · Movie
Crimson Tide
1995 · Movie
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Movie
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Shurtleff on Acting
1994 · Movie
Wyatt Earp
1994 · Movie
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · Movie
The Firm
1993 · Movie
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992 · Movie
Unforgiven
1992 · Movie
Company Business
1991 · Movie
Class Action
1991 · Movie
Narrow Margin
1990 · Movie
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie
Miami Blues
1990 · Movie
Loose Cannons
1990 · Movie
The Package
1989 · Movie
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988 · Movie
Another Woman
1988 · Movie
Bat★21
1988 · Movie
Split Decisions
1988 · Movie
No Way Out
1987 · Movie
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Movie
Hoosiers
1986 · Movie
American Masters
1986 · Series
Power
1986 · Movie
Target
1985 · Movie
Twice in a Lifetime
1985 · Movie
Larry King Live
1985 · Series
Uncommon Valor
1983 · Movie
Two of a Kind
1983 · Movie
Misunderstood
1983 · Movie
Under Fire
1983 · Movie
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983 · Movie
Eureka
1983 · Movie
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Movie
Reds
1981 · Movie
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
All Night Long
1981 · Movie
Superman II
1980 · Movie
Superman
1978 · Movie
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978 · Movie
The South Bank Show
1978 · Series
Ciné regards
1978 · Series
March or Die
1977 · Movie
The Hollywood Greats
1977 · Series
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Movie
The Domino Principle
1977 · Movie
Lucky Lady
1975 · Movie
Bite the Bullet
1975 · Movie
Night Moves
1975 · Movie
French Connection II
1975 · Movie
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Movie
Dinah!
1974 · Series
Zandy's Bride
1974 · Movie
The Conversation
1974 · Movie
Scarecrow
1973 · Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973 · Movie
The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Movie
Prime Cut
1972 · Movie
Cisco Pike
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The French Connection
1971 · Movie
The Hunting Party
1971 · Movie
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · Series
Doctors' Wives
1971 · Movie
I Never Sang for My Father
1970 · Movie
Marooned
1969 · Movie
Downhill Racer
1969 · Movie
The Gypsy Moths
1969 · Movie
Riot
1969 · Movie
The Sky Divers
1969 · Movie
Shadow on the Land
1968 · Movie
The Split
1968 · Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Series
Banning
1967 · Movie
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Movie
First to Fight
1967 · Movie
The Invaders
1967 · Series
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Series
Hawaii
1966 · Movie
Hawk
1966 · Series
The F.B.I.
1965 · Series
The Trials of O'Brien
1965 · Series
Lilith
1964 · Movie
East Side/West Side
1963 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
Mad Dog Coll
1961 · Movie
Tallahassee 7000
1961 · Series
Route 66
1960 · Series
Naked City
1958 · Series
The United States Steel Hour
1953 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Close-Up on The Conversation
Movie