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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 30, 1930
Place of Birth:
San Bernardino, California, USA
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Gene Hackman
Biography
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 17, 2025) was an American actor. In a career that spanned six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Films Awards and four Golden Globes.
Hackman's two Academy Award wins were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous Sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles as 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).
Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II (1980). He also acted in: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Scarecrow (1973), The Conversation (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Under Fire (1983), Power (1986), Loose Cannons (1990), The Firm (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Enemy of the State (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and Runaway Jury (2003). He retired from acting after starring in Welcome to Mooseport (2004).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Sacheen: Breaking the Silence | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Pattern Recognition | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | We, The Marines | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima | Self - Narrator |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self |
| 2008 | Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Self |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Lex Luthor |
| 2006 | Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Monroe Cole |
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Narrator |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Rankin Fitch |
| 2002 | Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self |
| 2002 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self |
| 2002 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Self |
| 2001 | Heartbreakers | William B. Tensy |
| 2001 | Heist | Joe Moore |
| 2001 | The Mexican | Arnold Margolese |
| 2001 | Behind Enemy Lines | Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum |
| 2001 | With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson | Self |
| 2001 | Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes | Lex Luthor (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Heroes of Iwo Jima | Self - Host/Narrator |
| 2001 | Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection | Self |
| 2001 | Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' | Self |
| 2001 | Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend | Self |
| 2001 | Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe | Himself/Narrator |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Henry Hearst |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Jimmy McGinty |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self |
| 2000 | The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' | Self |
| 1999 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Antz | General Mandible (voice) |
| 1998 | Twilight | Jack Ames |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Brill |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | President Richmond |
| 1997 | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Senator Kevin Keeley |
| 1996 | Extreme Measures | Dr. Lawrence Myrick |
| 1996 | The Chamber | Sam Cayhall |
| 1996 | Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein | Blind Man (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Harry Zimm |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | John Herod |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey |
| 1995 | The Making of 'Crimson Tide' | Self |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp | Nicholas Earp |
| 1994 | Shurtleff on Acting | Self |
| 1994 | Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self |
| 1993 | Geronimo: An American Legend | Brig. Gen. George Crook |
| 1993 | The Firm | Avery Tolar |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | 'Little' Bill Daggett |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) |
| 1992 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self |
| 1991 | Company Business | Sam Boyd |
| 1991 | Class Action | Jedediah Tucker Ward |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Lowell Kolchek |
| 1990 | Narrow Margin | Robert Caulfield |
| 1990 | Loose Cannons | MacArthur Stern |
| 1989 | The Package | Sgt. Johnny Gallagher |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Larry |
| 1988 | Full Moon in Blue Water | Floyd |
| 1988 | Bat★21 | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton |
| 1988 | Split Decisions | Dan McGuinn |
| 1987 | No Way Out | Defense Secretary David Brice |
| 1987 | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Lex Luthor |
| 1986 | Hoosiers | Coach Norman Dale |
| 1986 | Power | Wilfred Buckley |
| 1985 | Target | Walter Lloyd |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime | Harry MacKenzie |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self |
| 1983 | Uncommon Valor | Col. Cal Rhodes |
| 1983 | Under Fire | Alex Grazier |
| 1983 | Eureka | Jack McCann |
| 1983 | Misunderstood | Ned Rawley |
| 1983 | Two of a Kind | God (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Superman II' | Self |
| 1981 | Reds | Pete van Wherry |
| 1981 | All Night Long | George Dupler |
| 1980 | Superman II | Lex Luthor |
| 1980 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self |
| 1978 | Superman | Lex Luthor |
| 1978 | Formula 1 - Speed fever | Self |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski |
| 1977 | The Domino Principle | Tucker |
| 1977 | March or Die | Major William Sherman Foster |
| 1975 | French Connection II | "Popeye" Doyle |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Harry Moseby |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet | Sam Clayton |
| 1975 | Lucky Lady | Kibby |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Harry Caul |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | Blindman |
| 1974 | Zandy's Bride | Zandy Allen |
| 1973 | Scarecrow | Max Millan |
| 1973 | On the Road with: Scarecrow | Himself |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Scott |
| 1972 | Prime Cut | Mary Ann |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Jimmy Doyle |
| 1971 | The Hunting Party | Brandt Ruger |
| 1971 | Cisco Pike | Officer Leo Holland |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Dave Randolph |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Gene Garrison |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | Eugene Claire |
| 1969 | Marooned | Buzz Lloyd |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Joe Browdy |
| 1969 | Riot | Red Fraker |
| 1969 | The Sky Divers | Self |
| 1969 | How Fast? | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 1968 | The Split | Lt. Walter Brill |
| 1968 | Shadow on the Land | Rev. Thomas Davis |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Buck Barrow |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Harmsworth |
| 1967 | First to Fight | Sergeant Tweed |
| 1967 | Banning | Tommy Del Gaddo |
| 1966 | Hawaii | John Whipple |
| 1964 | Lilith | Norman |
| 1961 | Mad Dog Coll | Cop (uncredited) |