Gene Hackman
Acting
Born 1930-01-30 · San Bernardino, California, USA
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
Breakdown: 1975
Dec 18, 2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Mar 18, 2025
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Apr 5, 2019
Pattern Recognition
Dec 1, 2017
We, the Marines
Jul 21, 2017
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Jul 1, 2016
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Oct 6, 2014
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Apr 27, 2013
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Jan 16, 2009
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Mar 25, 2008
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Nov 2, 2006
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Oct 9, 2005
Welcome to Mooseport
Feb 24, 2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Jan 1, 2004
Runaway Jury
Jan 16, 2003
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Oct 28, 2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Sep 24, 2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Sep 24, 2002
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Dec 23, 2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Dec 17, 2001
Making THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (with Wes Anderson & Robert Yeoman)
Dec 17, 2001
Behind Enemy Lines
Nov 30, 2001
Heist
Nov 9, 2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
Oct 5, 2001
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Sep 25, 2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Aug 1, 2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Jun 17, 2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
May 1, 2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
May 1, 2001
Heartbreakers
Mar 23, 2001