Gene Hackman

Acting

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).

Filmography 153

Movies (120)

Breakdown: 1975
2025
(archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017
Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines
2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Self
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Narrator
Runaway Jury
2003
Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
Self
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist
2001
Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
Himself/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
Self - Host/Narrator
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
Self
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Self

Shows (33)

The Playboy Murders
2023
Self (archive footage)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Directors
1999
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Self
American Masters
1986
Self
Larry King Live
1985
Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Self
The South Bank Show
1978
Self
Ciné regards
1978
Self
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Dinah!
1974
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Self
Film '72
1971
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Self
The Invaders
1967
Tom Jessup
CBS Playhouse
1966
Ned
Hawk
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
Herb Kenyon
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
Roger Nathan
East Side/West Side
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Self
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961
Douglas McCann
The Defenders
1961
Stanley McGuirk
Tallahassee 7000
1961
Joe Lawson
Route 66
1960
Motorist
Naked City
1958
Mr. Jasper