Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman | Eugene Alder | Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman

About the person

Career:

Acting

Date of birth:

1930-01-30

Place of birth:

San Bernardino, California, USA

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

Date of death

2025-02-17

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

Rating by year

Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)
2025-12-18
6.828
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (archive footage)
2025-03-18
6.52
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
2024-03-15
7.219
The Playboy Murders
Self (archive footage)
2023-01-23
7.69
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021-01-02
5.02
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
2019-04-05
0.00
Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)
2017-12-01
0.00
We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017-07-21
5.419
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator
2016-07-01
0.00
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014-10-06
7.2179
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013-04-27
6.124
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009-01-16
6.967
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
2008-03-25
4.65
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006-11-17
8.02
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor
2006-11-02
7.4396
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)
2005-10-09
0.00
Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole
2004-02-24
5.1193
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator
2004-01-01
6.614
Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch
2003-01-16
6.91,557
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
2002-10-28
6.52
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002-09-24
7.45
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
2002-09-24
7.33
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001-12-23
6.952
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self
2001-12-17
7.02
Behind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001-11-30
6.41,657
Heist
Joe Moore
2001-11-09
6.3623
The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum
2001-10-05
7.55,058
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self
2001-09-25
7.04
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Himself/Narrator
2001-08-01
0.00
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Self - Host/Narrator
2001-06-17
6.14
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Self
2001-05-01
7.65
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
2001-05-01
7.25
Heartbreakers
William B. Tensy
2001-03-23
6.1996
The Mexican
Arnold Margolese
2001-03-01
6.01,620
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
2000-09-27
7.38
Under Suspicion
Henry Hearst
2000-08-24
6.1530
The Replacements
Jimmy McGinty
2000-08-11
6.71,083
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Self
2000-01-15
8.15
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Narrator (voice)
1999-01-23
7.86
The Directors
Self
1999-01-01
6.19
Enemy of the State
Brill
1998-11-20
7.14,273
Antz
General Mandible (voice)
1998-10-02
6.24,762
Twilight
Jack Ames
1998-03-06
6.1223
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1997-03-16
9.02
Absolute Power
President Richmond
1997-02-14
6.71,252
The Chamber
Sam Cayhall
1996-10-11
6.0276
Extreme Measures
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1996-09-27
6.0354
The Birdcage
Senator Kevin Keeley
1996-03-03
7.11,371
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Blind Man (archive footage)
1996-01-01
8.37
Get Shorty
Harry Zimm
1995-10-20
6.51,220
Crimson Tide
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
1995-05-12
7.22,005
The Quick and the Dead
Herod
1995-02-09
6.51,970
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
Self
1995-01-01
9.01
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Self
1994-12-11
7.410
Shurtleff on Acting
Self
1994-07-14
0.00
Wyatt Earp
Nicholas Earp
1994-06-24
6.8945
Geronimo: An American Legend
Brig. Gen. George Crook
1993-12-10
6.3299
The Firm
Avery Tolar
1993-06-30
6.72,322
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992-10-01
6.73
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
1992-09-17
0.00
Unforgiven
'Little' Bill Daggett
1992-08-07
7.94,982
Company Business
Sam Boyd
1991-09-06
5.279
Class Action
Jedediah Tucker Ward
1991-03-15
6.3175
Narrow Margin
Robert Caulfield
1990-09-21
6.5234
Postcards from the Edge
Lowell Kolchek
1990-09-14
6.6294
Loose Cannons
MacArthur Stern
1990-02-09
5.0119
The Package
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1989-08-25
6.1271
Mississippi Burning
Agent Rupert Anderson
1988-12-08
7.71,960
Full Moon in Blue Water
Floyd
1988-11-23
6.121
Another Woman
Larry
1988-10-13
6.8293
Bat★21
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
1988-07-21
6.3220
Split Decisions
Dan McGuinn
1988-06-11
5.126
No Way Out
Defense Secretary David Brice
1987-08-14
6.9816
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Lex Luthor
1987-07-24
4.61,422
Hoosiers
Norman Dale
1986-11-14
7.0593
American Masters
Self
1986-06-23
7.025
Power
Wilfred Buckley
1986-01-31
5.973
Target
Walter Lloyd
1985-11-08
5.9118
Twice in a Lifetime
Harry MacKenzie
1985-10-23
5.828
Uncommon Valor
Col. Cal Rhodes
1983-12-16
6.3222
Two of a Kind
God (voice) (uncredited)
1983-12-13
5.9137
Misunderstood
Ned Rawley
1983-12-10
6.513
Under Fire
Alex Grazier
1983-10-21
6.7182
The Making of 'Superman II'
Self
1983-07-17
7.68
Eureka
Jack McCann
1983-05-01
5.381
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
1982-01-24
6.89
Reds
Pete van Wherry
1981-12-25
6.9377
All Night Long
George Dupler
1981-03-06
5.235
Superman II
Lex Luthor
1980-12-04
6.82,540
Superman
Lex Luthor
1978-12-14
7.24,307
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Self
1978-09-15
7.17
March or Die
Major William Sherman Foster
1977-09-08
5.889
The Hollywood Greats
1977-08-04
4.73
A Bridge Too Far
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
1977-06-15
7.2941
The Domino Principle
Tucker
1977-03-23
5.979
Lucky Lady
Kibby
1975-12-25
5.517
Bite the Bullet
Sam Clayton
1975-09-26
6.5130
Night Moves
Harry Moseby
1975-06-11
6.7363
French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle
1975-05-18
6.8475
Young Frankenstein
Blindman
1974-12-15
7.93,411
Zandy's Bride
Zandy Allen
1974-05-19
6.334
The Conversation
Harry Caul
1974-04-12
7.52,039
Scarecrow
Max Millan
1973-04-11
7.1345
On the Road with: Scarecrow
Self
1973-01-01
7.01
The Poseidon Adventure
Reverend Scott
1972-12-01
7.11,018
Prime Cut
Mary Ann
1972-06-01
6.4128
Cisco Pike
Officer Leo Holland
1972-01-14
5.741
The French Connection
Jimmy Doyle
1971-10-09
7.52,148
The Hunting Party
Brandt Ruger
1971-07-16
6.175
Doctors' Wives
Dave Randolph
1971-02-03
5.018
I Never Sang for My Father
Gene Garrison
1970-10-18
6.742
Marooned
Buzz Lloyd
1969-12-11
6.0113
Downhill Racer
Eugene Claire
1969-11-06
5.9110
The Gypsy Moths
Joe Browdy
1969-08-29
6.148
Riot
Red Fraker
1969-01-15
5.323
The Sky Divers
Self
1969-01-01
6.01
Shadow on the Land
Rev. Thomas Davis
1968-12-04
7.73
The Split
Lt. Walter Brill
1968-11-04
6.735
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968-01-22
6.836
Banning
Tommy Del Gaddo
1967-12-13
5.812
Bonnie and Clyde
Buck Barrow
1967-08-13
7.51,802
A Covenant with Death
Harmsworth
1967-02-15
4.813
First to Fight
Sergeant Tweed
1967-01-25
7.95
The Invaders
Tom Jessup
1967-01-10
6.961
CBS Playhouse
Ned
1966-12-08
7.02
Hawaii
John Whipple
1966-10-10
6.354
Hawk
1966-09-08
8.01
The F.B.I.
Herb Kenyon
1965-09-19
5.625
The Trials of O'Brien
Roger Nathan
1965-09-18
7.05
Lilith
Norman
1964-10-01
6.483
East Side/West Side
1963-09-23
7.85
The DuPont Show of the Week
Douglas McCann
1961-09-17
7.02
The Defenders
Stanley McGuirk
1961-09-16
6.311
Mad Dog Coll
Cop (uncredited)
1961-05-12
5.415
Tallahassee 7000
Joe Lawson
1961-01-24
8.52
Route 66
Motorist
1960-10-07
6.720
Naked City
Mr. Jasper
1958-09-30
5.712
The United States Steel Hour
1953-10-27
6.36