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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman

Actor · 1930–2025 · San Bernardino, California, USA

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Biography

Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – 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).

Acted in 99

1960s

  1. 1969
  2. The Gypsy Moths

    Joe Browdy

  3. 1968

    Shadow on the Land

    Rev. Thomas Davis

  4. 1967

    Banning

    Tommy Del Gaddo

  5. A Covenant with Death

    Harmsworth

  6. First to Fight

    Sergeant Tweed

  7. 1966
  8. Hawk

    TV

  9. 1965
  10. 1964

    Lilith

    Norman

  11. 1963

    East Side/West Side

    TV

  12. 1961

    The DuPont Show of the Week

    Douglas McCann · 1 episode

  13. Mad Dog Coll

    Cop (uncredited)

  14. Tallahassee 7000

    Joe Lawson · 1 episode

  15. 1960

No release date

  1. Close-Up on The Conversation

    Movie

Produced 1

Appearances50

2010s

  1. 2019

    Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2017

    Pattern Recognition

    Self (archive footage)

  3. We, the Marines

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  4. 2016

    The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

    Self - Narrator

  5. 2013

    Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

    Self

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2008

    Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

    Self

  3. 2007
  4. 2006
  5. 2005

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Narrator (voice)

  6. 2004

    Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

    Narrator

  7. 2002

    Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

    Self

  8. Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Self

  9. All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

    Self

  10. 2001

    With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

    Self

  11. Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

    Self

  12. Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

    Narrator / Self

  13. Heroes of Iwo Jima

    Self - Host / Narrator

  14. Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

    Self

  15. Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

    Self

  16. 2000

    Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    Self

  17. The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1997

    Sports on the Silver Screen

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 1995

    The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

    Self

  4. 1994

    Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

    Self

  5. Inside the Actors Studio

    Self · 1 episode

  6. Shurtleff on Acting

    Self

  7. 1992

    Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Self

1980s

  1. 1986
  2. 1985

    Larry King Live

    Self · 1 episode

  3. 1983

    The Making of 'Superman II'

    Self

  4. 1982
  5. 1981
Thanked in the credits1