Gene Hackman
Born on January 30th, 1930
San Bernardino, California, USA
Died on February 17th, 2025
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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Filmography Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
Self (archive footage)
Details Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Self (archive footage)
Details Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Self (archive footage)
Details Pattern Recognition
2017
Self (archive footage)
Details We, The Marines
2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
Details Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Details And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
Self (archive footage)
Details Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Self
Details I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Self
Details Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Self
Details Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Lex Luthor
Details Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
2006
Self (archive footage)
Details Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
Narrator (voice)
Details Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Monroe Cole
Details Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Narrator
Details Runaway Jury
2003
Rankin Fitch
Details Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Self
Details Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Self
Details All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Self
Details Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
Details With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
Self
Details Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Details The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Royal Tenenbaum
Details Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Self
Details Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
Himself/Narrator
Details Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
Self - Host/Narrator
Details Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Self
Details Heartbreakers
2001
William B. Tensy
Details The Mexican
2001
Arnold Margolese
Details Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
Self
Details Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Self
Details Under Suspicion
2000
Henry Hearst
Details The Replacements
2000
Jimmy McGinty
Details The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Self
Details Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
Narrator (voice)
Details Enemy of the State
1998
Brill
Details Antz
1998
General Mandible (voice)
Details Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Self (archive footage)
Details Absolute Power
1997
President Richmond
Details Extreme Measures
1996
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
Details The Birdcage
1996
Senator Kevin Keeley
Details Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
Blind Man (archive footage)
Details Crimson Tide
1995
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
Details The Quick and the Dead
1995
John Herod
Details Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
Self
Details Shurtleff on Acting
1994
Self
Details Wyatt Earp
1994
Nicholas Earp
Details Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
Brig. Gen. George Crook
Details Earth and the American Dream
1992
Reader (voice)
Details Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
Self
Details Unforgiven
1992
'Little' Bill Daggett
Details Company Business
1991
Sam Boyd
Details Class Action
1991
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Details Narrow Margin
1990
Robert Caulfield
Details Postcards from the Edge
1990
Lowell Kolchek
Details Loose Cannons
1990
MacArthur Stern
Details The Package
1989
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Details Mississippi Burning
1988
Agent Rupert Anderson
Details Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Floyd
Details Bat★21
1988
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Details Split Decisions
1988
Dan McGuinn
Details No Way Out
1987
Defense Secretary David Brice
Details Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
Lex Luthor
Details Hoosiers
1986
Coach Norman Dale
Details Twice in a Lifetime
1985
Harry MacKenzie
Details Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Self
Details Misunderstood
1984
Ned Rawley
Details Uncommon Valor
1983
Col. Cal Rhodes
Details Two of a Kind
1983
God (voice) (uncredited)
Details The Making of 'Superman II'
1982
Self
Details All Night Long
1981
George Dupler
Details The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1980
Self
Details Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
Self
Details March or Die
1977
Major William Sherman Foster
Details A Bridge Too Far
1977
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Details The Domino Principle
1977
Tucker
Details Bite the Bullet
1975
Sam Clayton
Details French Connection II
1975
"Popeye" Doyle
Details Night Moves
1975
Harry Moseby
Details Young Frankenstein
1974
Blindman
Details Zandy's Bride
1974
Zandy Allen
Details The Conversation
1974
Harry Caul
Details The Poseidon Adventure
1972
Reverend Scott
Details Cisco Pike
1972
Officer Leo Holland
Details The French Connection
1971
Jimmy Doyle
Details The Hunting Party
1971
Brandt Ruger
Details Doctors' Wives
1971
Dave Randolph
Details I Never Sang for My Father
1970
Gene Garrison
Details Downhill Racer
1969
Eugene Claire
Details The Gypsy Moths
1969
Joe Browdy
Details How Fast?
1969
Self (Archive Footage)
Details Shadow on the Land
1968
Rev. Thomas Davis
Details The Split
1968
Lt. Walter Brill
Details Bonnie and Clyde
1967
Buck Barrow
Details Community Shelter Planning
1967
Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer
Details A Covenant with Death
1967
Harmsworth
Details First to Fight
1967
Sergeant Tweed
Details Mad Dog Coll
1961
Cop (uncredited)
Details 