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
Breakdown: 1975
2025
as Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
as Self (archive footage)
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017
as Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
as Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
as Self
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
as Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Narrator
Runaway Jury
2003
as Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
as Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
as Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
as Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
as Self
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
2001
as Joe Moore