
Gene Hackman
Born January 30, 1930 · 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).
Movies

Superman

The Firm

Unforgiven

Superman II

Crimson Tide

Enemy of the State

Antz

The Royal Tenenbaums

Runaway Jury

The Quick and the Dead

Absolute Power

A Bridge Too Far

Get Shorty

Bonnie and Clyde

Young Frankenstein

Mississippi Burning

The Mexican

Behind Enemy Lines

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

No Way Out

The Birdcage

The French Connection

The Replacements

Wyatt Earp

The Poseidon Adventure

The Conversation
TV Shows

Ciné regards

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Naked City

The Defenders

Route 66

The F.B.I.

American Masters

The Oscars

The Invaders

The South Bank Show

Dinah!

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

The United States Steel Hour

Entertainment Tonight

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Directors

The Playboy Murders

Hawk

The Trials of O'Brien

Larry King Live

The Hollywood Greats

East Side/West Side

The DuPont Show of the Week

Tallahassee 7000

Inside the Actors Studio
More Movies

Under Fire

Heartbreakers

The Domino Principle

The Chamber

French Connection II

Uncommon Valor

Hoosiers

Night Moves

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Heist

The Package

Geronimo: An American Legend

Welcome to Mooseport

Extreme Measures

Eureka

Reds

Under Suspicion

Postcards from the Edge

Downhill Racer

Narrow Margin

Prime Cut

Scarecrow

Breakdown: 1975

Another Woman

March or Die

Lucky Lady

Bat★21

Class Action

Twilight

Two of a Kind

Bite the Bullet

Loose Cannons

Power

Zandy's Bride

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Marooned

Company Business

Hawaii

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

The Gypsy Moths

Earth and the American Dream

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

The Hunting Party

The Split

Pattern Recognition

Mad Dog Coll

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Target

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Lilith

All Night Long

Cisco Pike

Remembering Gene Wilder

Full Moon in Blue Water

Banning

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Sports on the Silver Screen

Split Decisions

Twice in a Lifetime

Riot

The Making of 'Superman II'

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

Misunderstood

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

A Covenant with Death

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

First to Fight

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Shurtleff on Acting

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

We, the Marines

The Sky Divers

Doctors' Wives

I Never Sang for My Father

Heroes of Iwo Jima

Shadow on the Land

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

On the Road with: Scarecrow

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special




