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).
Birthday
Jan 30, 1930
Place of birth
San Bernardino, California, USA
Deathday
Feb 17, 2025
Also known as
- Eugene Allen Hackman
- Eugene Alder
- Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman
Credited in
As cast
- Unforgiven
- Absolute Power
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The French Connection
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Conversation
- Mississippi Burning
- Young Frankenstein
- Under Suspicion
- No Way Out
- Superman
- The Replacements
- French Connection II
- Heartbreakers
- The Birdcage
- Heist
- A Bridge Too Far
- Hoosiers
- Extreme Measures
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
- The Mexican
- Runaway Jury
- Postcards from the Edge
- Another Woman
- Scarecrow
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Target
- Narrow Margin
- The Chamber
- Get Shorty
- The Package
- The Split
- Superman II
- Loose Cannons
- The Domino Principle
- Night Moves
- The Quick and the Dead
- Company Business
- Wyatt Earp
- Crimson Tide
- March or Die
- Antz
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Twilight
- Downhill Racer
- Bite the Bullet
- Enemy of the State
- Uncommon Valor
- Under Fire
- Prime Cut
- Marooned
- Geronimo: An American Legend
- Full Moon in Blue Water
- Hawaii
- Lilith
- Bat★21
- The Firm
- Class Action
- Eureka
- The Hunting Party
- The Gypsy Moths
- Welcome to Mooseport
- Power
- Reds
- Misunderstood
- Cisco Pike
- I Never Sang for My Father
- Split Decisions
- Riot
- With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
- Lucky Lady
- Zandy's Bride
- Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
- Twice in a Lifetime
- All Night Long
- Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
- Shurtleff on Acting
- Doctors' Wives
- Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
- A Covenant with Death
- Sports on the Silver Screen
- Heroes of Iwo Jima
- Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
- Pattern Recognition
- The Sky Divers
- First to Fight
- Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
- Banning
- Shadow on the Land
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of HollywoodNo picture available
- Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
- The Making of 'Superman II'
- Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
- Mad Dog Coll
- We, the Marines
- Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
- Formula 1 - Speed fever
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
- Earth and the American Dream
- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
- All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
- Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
- Two of a Kind
- Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
- The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood LegendNo picture available
- Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
- On the Road with: Scarecrow
- The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
- The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
- The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
