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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Larry King Live
4.8
Inside the Actors Studio
7.535
The F.B.I.
5.455
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
7.056
Hawk
0
Tallahassee 7000
0
The Trials of O'Brien
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
8
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
6.7
V.I.P. Schaukel
6
American Masters
7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Entertainment Tonight
4.12
The Invaders
6.807
The Playboy Murders
7.5
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Route 66
6.324
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Tony Awards
5.917
Dinah!
6.667
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Movies
Unforgiven
7.913
Absolute Power
6.649
Bonnie and Clyde
7.488
The French Connection
7.495
The Poseidon Adventure
7.106
The Conversation
7.518
Mississippi Burning
7.671
Young Frankenstein
7.868
Under Suspicion
6.096
No Way Out
6.9
Superman
7.147
The Replacements
6.663
French Connection II
6.776
Heartbreakers
6.101
The Birdcage
7
Heist
6.3
A Bridge Too Far
7.235
Hoosiers
7.029
Extreme Measures
6
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
4.6
The Mexican
5.937
Runaway Jury
6.927
Postcards from the Edge
6.6
Another Woman
6.839
Scarecrow
7.1
Behind Enemy Lines
6.417
Target
5.9
Narrow Margin
6.395
The Chamber
5.977
Get Shorty
6.506
The Package
6.1
The Split
6.7
Superman II
6.7
Loose Cannons
4.871
The Domino Principle
5.886
Night Moves
6.7
The Quick and the Dead
6.6
Company Business
5.2
Wyatt Earp
6.8
Crimson Tide
7.181
March or Die
5.8
Antz
6.168
The Royal Tenenbaums
7.465
Twilight
6.1
Downhill Racer
5.89
Bite the Bullet
6.414
Enemy of the State
7.052
Uncommon Valor
6.24
Under Fire
6.7
Prime Cut
6.4
Marooned
5.9
Geronimo: An American Legend
6.276
Full Moon in Blue Water
6.194
Hawaii
6.3
Lilith
6.461
Bat★21
6.333
The Firm
6.734
Class Action
6.3
Eureka
5.322
The Hunting Party
6.2
The Gypsy Moths
6.078
Welcome to Mooseport
5.097
Power
5.916
Reds
6.9
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
7.195
Misunderstood
6.7
Cisco Pike
5.7
I Never Sang for My Father
6.608
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
6.9
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
7.6
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
7.8
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
6.429
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
5.615
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
7.4
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
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
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
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
6.5