
Gene Hackman
Born January 30, 1930 · 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).
Movies

Superman

Unforgiven

Enemy of the State

The Firm

The Royal Tenenbaums

Superman II

Antz

The Quick and the Dead

The Domino Principle

The Poseidon Adventure

Crimson Tide

Bonnie and Clyde

Young Frankenstein

The French Connection

A Bridge Too Far

The Replacements

Behind Enemy Lines

Mississippi Burning

The Birdcage

Absolute Power

Get Shorty

Wyatt Earp

Runaway Jury

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

The Conversation

No Way Out
TV Shows

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

The South Bank Show

Ciné regards

American Masters

Naked City

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The F.B.I.

The Defenders

The Invaders

Route 66

The Oscars

Dinah!

The United States Steel Hour

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Entertainment Tonight

The Directors

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Playboy Murders

Larry King Live

The Trials of O'Brien

The Hollywood Greats

Hawk

The DuPont Show of the Week

Tallahassee 7000

East Side/West Side

Inside the Actors Studio
More Movies

The Mexican

Geronimo: An American Legend

Heartbreakers

French Connection II

Extreme Measures

The Package

Hoosiers

Heist

Postcards from the Edge

Breakdown: 1975

The Chamber

Under Fire

Reds

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Scarecrow

Twilight

Eureka

Welcome to Mooseport

Uncommon Valor

Bat★21

Night Moves

Narrow Margin

Under Suspicion

Another Woman

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Company Business

Two of a Kind

Lucky Lady

Prime Cut

Hawaii

Bite the Bullet

The Hunting Party

Banning

Marooned

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Class Action

Lilith

Pattern Recognition

Earth and the American Dream

Zandy's Bride

Target

Power

Sports on the Silver Screen

March or Die

Downhill Racer

Loose Cannons

Twice in a Lifetime

Mad Dog Coll

The Making of 'Superman II'

The Gypsy Moths

Remembering Gene Wilder

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

All Night Long

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

A Covenant with Death

Full Moon in Blue Water

Shadow on the Land

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Cisco Pike

Heroes of Iwo Jima

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

I Never Sang for My Father

The Split

Riot

Misunderstood

We, the Marines

The Sky Divers

Split Decisions

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

First to Fight

Shurtleff on Acting

Doctors' Wives

On the Road with: Scarecrow

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'




