Gene Hackman
Born
30 January 1930 (96)
Place of Birth
San Bernardino, California, USA
Also known as
Eugene Allen Hackman, Eugene Alder
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 ...
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 (40)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Pattern Recognition
2017
We, the Marines
2017
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Runaway Jury
2003
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
Making THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (with Wes Anderson & Robert Yeoman)
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Heist
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
Heartbreakers
2001
The Mexican
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Under Suspicion
2000
The Replacements
2000
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
Enemy of the State
1998
Antz
1998
Twilight
1998