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