Gene Hackman
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Hackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Larry King Live
4.8
Inside the Actors Studio
7.518
The F.B.I.
5.5
The South Bank Show
5.6
Naked City
5.5
East Side/West Side
7.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Insight
6
The Defenders
6.2
The United States Steel Hour
6.2
CBS Playhouse
7
The DuPont Show of the Week
6
The Directors
5.8
The Hollywood Greats
3.5
The Oscars
7
Hawk
0
Tallahassee 7000
0
The Trials of O'Brien
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
6
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
6.7
V.I.P. Schaukel
6
American Masters
7.3
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Entertainment Tonight
4
The Invaders
6.8
The Playboy Murders
7.375
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Route 66
6.3
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Movies
Unforgiven
7.912
Absolute Power
6.654
Bonnie and Clyde
7.486
The French Connection
7.492
The Poseidon Adventure
7.104
The Conversation
7.512
Mississippi Burning
7.662
Young Frankenstein
7.872
Under Suspicion
6.097
No Way Out
6.882
Superman
7.143
The Replacements
6.7
French Connection II
6.765
Heartbreakers
6.1
The Birdcage
7.034
Heist
6.32
A Bridge Too Far
7.232
Hoosiers
7.033
Extreme Measures
6
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
4.6
The Mexican
5.9
Runaway Jury
6.922
Postcards from the Edge
6.6
Another Woman
6.8
Scarecrow
7.1
Behind Enemy Lines
6.414
Target
5.9
Narrow Margin
6.386
The Chamber
6
Get Shorty
6.505
The Package
6.119
The Split
6.7
Superman II
6.7
Loose Cannons
4.87
The Domino Principle
5.886
Night Moves
6.67
The Quick and the Dead
6.55
Company Business
5.2
Wyatt Earp
6.768
Crimson Tide
7.179
March or Die
5.818
Antz
6.169
The Royal Tenenbaums
7.5
Twilight
6.067
Downhill Racer
5.9
Bite the Bullet
6.4
Enemy of the State
7.054
Uncommon Valor
6.24
Under Fire
6.654
Prime Cut
6.429
Marooned
5.9
Geronimo: An American Legend
6.261
Full Moon in Blue Water
6.2
Hawaii
6.3
Lilith
6.474
Bat★21
6.3
The Firm
6.7
Class Action
6.3
Eureka
5.3
The Hunting Party
6.2
The Gypsy Moths
6.1
Welcome to Mooseport
5.097
Power
5.871
Reds
6.886
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
7.198
Misunderstood
6.7
Cisco Pike
5.7
I Never Sang for My Father
6.6
Split Decisions
5.1
Riot
5.3
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
5
Lucky Lady
5.2
Zandy's Bride
6.3
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
6.5
Twice in a Lifetime
5.6
All Night Long
5.2
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
4.6
Shurtleff on Acting
0
Doctors' Wives
5
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
6.92
A Covenant with Death
5
Sports on the Silver Screen
10
Heroes of Iwo Jima
5.5
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
0
Pattern Recognition
0
The Sky Divers
0
First to Fight
7.9
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
7
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
7.1
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
6
Night of 100 Stars II
8
Banning
6.1
Shadow on the Land
8
How Fast?
0
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
6.902
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
7.6
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
7.8
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
6.3
The Making of 'Superman II'
7.6
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
6.8
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
6.5
Mad Dog Coll
5.4
We, The Marines
5.8
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
0
Formula 1 - Speed fever
7
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
7.3
Earth and the American Dream
6.7
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
7.2
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
6
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
8.5
Two of a Kind
5.9
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
7.5
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
7.4
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
8.3
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
5
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
0
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
8.1
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
0
On the Road with: Scarecrow
7
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
0
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
0