Gene Hackman
Acting
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 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).
As actor 154
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
Film '72
1971
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Ciné regards
1978
The South Bank Show
1978
American Masters
1986
Naked City
1958
Route 66
1960
The Defenders
1961
The F.B.I.
1965
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Dinah!
1974
Superman
1978
The Invaders
1967
The Oscars
1953
The United States Steel Hour
1953
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Unforgiven
1992
The Firm
1993
Crimson Tide
1995
Enemy of the State
1998
Superman II
1980
Antz
1998
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Runaway Jury
2003
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The Birdcage
1996
The Quick and the Dead
1995
Absolute Power
1997
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Mississippi Burning
1988
Young Frankenstein
1974
A Bridge Too Far
1977
No Way Out
1987
East Side/West Side
1963
The Conversation
1974
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
Wyatt Earp
1994
The French Connection
1971
Get Shorty
1995
The Poseidon Adventure
1972
The Replacements
2000
The Directors
1999
Uncommon Valor
1983
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
The Mexican
2001
Extreme Measures
1996
CBS Playhouse
1966
Heist
2001
The Package
1989
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961
Night Moves
1975
Under Suspicion
2000
The Playboy Murders
2023
The Chamber
1996
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Heartbreakers
2001
Larry King Live
1985
March or Die
1977
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
French Connection II
1975
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
Hoosiers
1986
The Domino Principle
1977
Tallahassee 7000
1961
Narrow Margin
1990
Reds
1981
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Twilight
1998
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Another Woman
1988
Target
1985
Under Fire
1983
Class Action
1991
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Hawk
1966
Eureka
1983
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Scarecrow
1973
Lucky Lady
1975
Bite the Bullet
1975
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
Bat★21
1988
Downhill Racer
1969
Power
1986
The Gypsy Moths
1969
The Hunting Party
1971
Loose Cannons
1990
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
All Night Long
1981
Prime Cut
1972
Hawaii
1966
Two of a Kind
1983
Marooned
1969
Lilith
1964
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
The Split
1968
Company Business
1991
Zandy's Bride
1974
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Cisco Pike
1972
Doctors' Wives
1971
Mad Dog Coll
1961
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
Banning
1967
Pattern Recognition
2017
Split Decisions
1988
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Riot
1969
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
Shadow on the Land
1968
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Misunderstood
1983
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
Shurtleff on Acting
1994
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
First to Fight
1967
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
The Making of 'Superman II'
1983
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
A Covenant with Death
1967
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
We, the Marines
2017
The Sky Divers
1969
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Close-Up on The Conversation
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
