Gene Hackman

Personal Info

Birthday

January 30, 1930

Day of Death

2025-02-17

(95 years old)

Place of Birth

San Bernardino, California, USA

Also Known As

Eugene Allen Hackman

Eugene Alder

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman

Gene Hackman

Biography

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

Runaway Jury

Reds

Naked City

No Way Out

The Defenders

The Invaders

Route 66

The F.B.I.

Filmography

2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
as Self (Archival 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)
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
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
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
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
as Self
2001
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
as Self
Behind Enemy Lines
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
as Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
as Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
as Himself/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima
as Self - Host/Narrator
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
Heartbreakers
as William B. Tensy
The Mexican
as Arnold Margolese
2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
Under Suspicion
as Henry Hearst
The Replacements
as Jimmy McGinty
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
as Self
1999
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Narrator (voice)
1998
Enemy of the State
as Brill
Antz
as General Mandible (voice)
Twilight
as Jack Ames
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Absolute Power
as President Richmond
1996
The Chamber
as Sam Cayhall
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Birdcage
as Senator Kevin Keeley
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
as Blind Man (archive footage)
1995
Get Shorty
as Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead
as John Herod
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
as Self
1994
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
as Self
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
Wyatt Earp
as Nicholas Earp
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
The Firm
as Avery Tolar
1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Unforgiven
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
1991
Company Business
as Sam Boyd
Class Action
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
1990
Narrow Margin
as Robert Caulfield
Postcards from the Edge
as Lowell Kolchek
Loose Cannons
as MacArthur Stern
1989
The Package
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1988
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Rupert Anderson
Full Moon in Blue Water
as Floyd
Another Woman
as Larry
Bat★21
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Split Decisions
as Dan McGuinn
1987
No Way Out
as Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lex Luthor
1986
Hoosiers
as Coach Norman Dale
Power
as Wilfred Buckley
1985
Target
as Walter Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime
as Harry MacKenzie
1983
Uncommon Valor
as Col. Cal Rhodes
Two of a Kind
as God (voice) (uncredited)
Misunderstood
as Ned Rawley
Under Fire
as Alex Grazier
The Making of 'Superman II'
as Self
Eureka
as Jack McCann
1982
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
1981
Reds
as Pete van Wherry
All Night Long
as George Dupler
1980
Superman II
as Lex Luthor
1978
Superman
as Lex Luthor
Formula 1 - Speed fever
as Self
1977
March or Die
as Major William Sherman Foster
A Bridge Too Far
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Domino Principle
as Tucker
1975
Lucky Lady
as Kibby
Bite the Bullet
as Sam Clayton
Night Moves
as Harry Moseby
French Connection II
as "Popeye" Doyle
1974
Young Frankenstein
as Blindman
Zandy's Bride
as Zandy Allen
The Conversation
as Harry Caul
1973
Scarecrow
as Max Millan
On the Road with: Scarecrow
as Himself
1972
The Poseidon Adventure
as Reverend Scott
Prime Cut
as Mary Ann
1971
Cisco Pike
as Officer Leo Holland
The French Connection
as Jimmy Doyle
The Hunting Party
as Brandt Ruger
Doctors' Wives
as Dave Randolph
1970
I Never Sang for My Father
as Gene Garrison
1969
Marooned
as Buzz Lloyd
Downhill Racer
as Eugene Claire
The Gypsy Moths
as Joe Browdy
Riot
as Red Fraker
The Sky Divers
as Self
1968
Shadow on the Land
as Rev. Thomas Davis
The Split
as Lt. Walter Brill
1967
Banning
as Tommy Del Gaddo
Bonnie and Clyde
as Buck Barrow
A Covenant with Death
as Harmsworth
First to Fight
as Sergeant Tweed
1966
Hawaii
as John Whipple
1964
Lilith
as Norman
1961
Mad Dog Coll
as Cop (uncredited)