Gene Hackman
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 · 148
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978 · Self
American Masters
1986 · Self
Naked City
1958 · Mr. Jasper
The F.B.I.
1965 · Herb Kenyon
The Invaders
1967 · Tom Jessup
Route 66
1960 · Motorist
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Self
The Defenders
1961 · Stanley McGuirk
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Dinah!
1974 · Self
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Superman
1978 · Lex Luthor
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Unforgiven
1992 · 'Little' Bill Daggett
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Self
The Firm
1993 · Avery Tolar
The Domino Principle
1977 · Tucker
Enemy of the State
1998 · Brill
Superman II
1980 · Lex Luthor
Antz
1998 · General Mandible (voic...
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Herod
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Royal Tenenbaum
The Directors
1999 · Self
The Replacements
2000 · Jimmy McGinty
Crimson Tide
1995 · Captain Franklin "Fran...
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Buck Barrow
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Blindman
The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Reverend Scott
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Agent Rupert Anderson
Get Shorty
1995 · Harry Zimm
Wyatt Earp
1994 · Nicholas Earp
Runaway Jury
2003 · Rankin Fitch
The Birdcage
1996 · Senator Kevin Keeley
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · Admiral Leslie Reigart...
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F....
The French Connection
1971 · Jimmy Doyle
The Playboy Murders
2023 · Self (archive footage)
The Mexican
2001 · Arnold Margolese
Heartbreakers
2001 · William B. Tensy
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Lowell Kolchek
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Lex Luthor
Larry King Live
1985 · Self
The Conversation
1974 · Harry Caul
No Way Out
1987 · Defense Secretary Davi...
Absolute Power
1997 · President Richmond
French Connection II
1975 · "Popeye" Doyle
Tallahassee 7000
1961 · Joe Lawson
Heist
2001 · Joe Moore
Hawk
1966
The Trials of O'Brien
1965 · Roger Nathan
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Package
1989 · Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · Brig. Gen. George Croo...
Hoosiers
1986 · Norman Dale
The Chamber
1996 · Sam Cayhall
East Side/West Side
1963
Under Fire
1983 · Alex Grazier
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Lex Luthor
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Douglas McCann
Extreme Measures
1996 · Dr. Lawrence Myrick
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Self (The Conversation...
Bat★21
1988 · Lt. Col. Iceal Hamblet...
Scarecrow
1973 · Max Millan
Uncommon Valor
1983 · Col. Cal Rhodes
Reds
1981 · Pete van Wherry
Twilight
1998 · Jack Ames
Under Suspicion
2000 · Henry Hearst
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 · Monroe Cole
Another Woman
1988 · Larry
Night Moves
1975 · Harry Moseby
Prime Cut
1972 · Mary Ann
Eureka
1983 · Jack McCann
Zandy's Bride
1974 · Zandy Allen
Company Business
1991 · Sam Boyd
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Lex Luthor (archive fo...
Marooned
1969 · Buzz Lloyd
Twice in a Lifetime
1985 · Harry MacKenzie
Hawaii
1966 · John Whipple
The Hunting Party
1971 · Brandt Ruger
Downhill Racer
1969 · Eugene Claire
Two of a Kind
1983 · God (voice) (uncredite...
Bite the Bullet
1975 · Sam Clayton
Lilith
1964 · Norman
Banning
1967 · Tommy Del Gaddo
March or Die
1977 · Major William Sherman...
Narrow Margin
1990 · Robert Caulfield
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
Pattern Recognition
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Class Action
1991 · Jedediah Tucker Ward
Target
1985 · Walter Lloyd
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · Lex Luthor (archive fo...
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995 · Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Lucky Lady
1975 · Kibby
Mad Dog Coll
1961 · Cop (uncredited)
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
The Gypsy Moths
1969 · Joe Browdy
Power
1986 · Wilfred Buckley
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Self
All Night Long
1981 · George Dupler
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013 · Self
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Loose Cannons
1990 · MacArthur Stern
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Self
The Split
1968 · Lt. Walter Brill
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988 · Floyd
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001 · Self
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983 · Self
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001 · Self - Host/Narrator
Cisco Pike
1972 · Officer Leo Holland
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Harmsworth
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978 · Self
I Never Sang for My Father
1970 · Gene Garrison
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973 · Self
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Self
Misunderstood
1983 · Ned Rawley
Shadow on the Land
1968 · Rev. Thomas Davis
First to Fight
1967 · Sergeant Tweed
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002 · Self
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Riot
1969 · Red Fraker
Shurtleff on Acting
1994 · Self
The Sky Divers
1969 · Self
We, the Marines
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Split Decisions
1988 · Dan McGuinn
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992 · Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994 · Self
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000 · Self
Doctors' Wives
1971 · Dave Randolph
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002 · Self
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001 · Self
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · Narrator
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001 · Himself/Narrator
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001 · Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002 · Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Self
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · Blind Man (archive foo...
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001 · Self
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005 · Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016 · Self - Narrator