Gene Hackman
January 30, 1930 (96 years old) in 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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Breakdown: 1975 as (archive footage)
- 2025 · The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special as Self (Archival Footage)
- 2023 · The Playboy Murders as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Sacheen: Breaking the Silence as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Pattern Recognition as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · We, the Marines as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima as Self - Narrator
- 2014 · Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' as Self
- 2007 · Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as Self
- 2006 · America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Lex Luthor
- 2005 · Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Welcome to Mooseport as Monroe Cole
- 2004 · Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust as Narrator
- 2003 · Runaway Jury as Rankin Fitch
- 2002 · Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 2002 · Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' as Self
- 2002 · All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger as Self
- 2001 · Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes