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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 30, 1930
Died
February 17, 2025
Place of Birth
San Bernardino, California, USA
Also Known As
- Eugene Allen Hackman
- Eugene Alder
- Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman
Gene Hackman
2.7 Popularity
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).
Known For
7.0
(archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
6.5
Self (Archival Footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
7.6
Self (archive footage)
The Playboy Murders
2023
🎬
5.0
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
2017
5.7
Self - Narrator (voice)
We, the Marines
2017
0.0
Self - Narrator
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
7.2
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
5.9
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Credits
Breakdown: 1975
as (archive footage)
2025
7.0
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
as Self (Archival Footage)
2025
6.5
The Playboy Murders
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.6
🎬
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2021
5.0
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
2019
0.0
Pattern Recognition
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
We, the Marines
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
5.7
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
as Self - Narrator
2016
0.0
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
7.2
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
2013
5.9
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2009
6.9
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
2008
4.6
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
as Self
2007
6.8
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
8.0
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Lex Luthor
2006
7.4
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
as Narrator (voice)
2005
0.0
Welcome to Mooseport
as Monroe Cole
2004
5.1
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Narrator
2004
6.5
Runaway Jury
as Rankin Fitch
2003
6.9
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2002
6.5
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
as Self
2002
6.0
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
2002
7.2
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001
6.9
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
as Self
2001
5.0
Behind Enemy Lines
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001
6.4
Heist
as Joe Moore
2001
6.3
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Royal Tenenbaum
2001
7.5
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
as Self
2001
7.0
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
as Himself/Narrator
2001
0.0
Heroes of Iwo Jima
as Self - Host/Narrator
2001
5.5
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
2001
6.8
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
2001
7.8
Heartbreakers
as William B. Tensy
2001
6.1
The Mexican
as Arnold Margolese
2001
5.9
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
2000
7.1
Under Suspicion
as Henry Hearst
2000
6.1
The Replacements
as Jimmy McGinty
2000
6.7
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
as Self
2000
8.3
🎬
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Narrator (voice)
1999
7.6
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
Enemy of the State
as Brill
1998
7.1
Antz
as General Mandible (voice)
1998
6.2
Twilight
as Jack Ames
1998
6.1
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1997
10.0
Absolute Power
as President Richmond
1997
6.7
The Chamber
as Sam Cayhall
1996
6.0
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1996
6.0
The Birdcage
as Senator Kevin Keeley
1996
7.0
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
as Blind Man (archive footage)
1996
8.5
Get Shorty
as Harry Zimm
1995
6.5
Crimson Tide
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
1995
7.2
The Quick and the Dead
as John Herod
1995
6.5
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
as Self
1995
0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
as Self
1994
7.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
1994
0.0
Wyatt Earp
as Nicholas Earp
1994
6.8
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
1993
6.3
The Firm
as Avery Tolar
1993
6.7
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Self
1992
0.0
Unforgiven
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
1992
7.9
Company Business
as Sam Boyd
1991
5.2
Class Action
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
1991
6.3
Narrow Margin
as Robert Caulfield
1990
6.4
Postcards from the Edge
as Lowell Kolchek
1990
6.6
Loose Cannons
as MacArthur Stern
1990
5.0
The Package
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1989
6.1
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Rupert Anderson
1988
7.7
Full Moon in Blue Water
as Floyd
1988
6.0
Another Woman
as Larry
1988
6.8
Bat★21
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
1988
6.3
Split Decisions
as Dan McGuinn
1988
5.0
No Way Out
as Defense Secretary David Brice
1987
6.9
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lex Luthor
1987
4.6
Hoosiers
as Coach Norman Dale
1986
7.0
American Masters
as Self
1986
7.5
Power
as Wilfred Buckley
1986
5.9
Target
as Walter Lloyd
1985
5.9
Twice in a Lifetime
as Harry MacKenzie
1985
5.6
Larry King Live
as Self
1985
4.8
Uncommon Valor
as Col. Cal Rhodes
1983
6.2
Two of a Kind
as God (voice) (uncredited)
1983
5.9
Misunderstood
as Ned Rawley
1983
6.7
Under Fire
as Alex Grazier
1983
6.7
The Making of 'Superman II'
as Self
1983
7.6
Eureka
as Jack McCann
1983
5.3
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
1982
6.4
Reds
as Pete van Wherry
1981
6.9
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
All Night Long
as George Dupler
1981
5.1
Superman II
as Lex Luthor
1980
6.7
Superman
as Lex Luthor
1978
7.2
Formula 1 - Speed fever
as Self
1978
7.0
The South Bank Show
as Self
1978
5.6
March or Die
as Major William Sherman Foster
1977
5.8
The Hollywood Greats
1977
3.5
A Bridge Too Far
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
1977
7.2
The Domino Principle
as Tucker
1977
5.9
Lucky Lady
as Kibby
1975
5.3
Bite the Bullet
as Sam Clayton
1975
6.4
Night Moves
as Harry Moseby
1975
6.7
French Connection II
as "Popeye" Doyle
1975
6.8
Young Frankenstein
as Blindman
1974
7.9
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Zandy's Bride
as Zandy Allen
1974
6.2
The Conversation
as Harry Caul
1974
7.5
Scarecrow
as Max Millan
1973
7.0
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
On the Road with: Scarecrow
as Himself
1973
7.0
The Poseidon Adventure
as Reverend Scott
1972
7.1
Prime Cut
as Mary Ann
1972
6.4
🎬
Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
Cisco Pike
as Officer Leo Holland
1971
5.6
The French Connection
as Jimmy Doyle
1971
7.5
The Hunting Party
as Brandt Ruger
1971
6.1
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Doctors' Wives
as Dave Randolph
1971
4.8
I Never Sang for My Father
as Gene Garrison
1970
6.5
Marooned
as Buzz Lloyd
1969
5.9
Downhill Racer
as Eugene Claire
1969
5.8
The Gypsy Moths
as Joe Browdy
1969
6.0
Riot
as Red Fraker
1969
5.2
The Sky Divers
as Self
1969
0.0
Shadow on the Land
as Rev. Thomas Davis
1968
8.0
The Split
as Lt. Walter Brill
1968
6.7
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
Banning
as Tommy Del Gaddo
1967
5.6
Bonnie and Clyde
as Buck Barrow
1967
7.5
A Covenant with Death
as Harmsworth
1967
4.7
First to Fight
as Sergeant Tweed
1967
7.9
The Invaders
as Tom Jessup
1967
6.8
🎬
CBS Playhouse
1966
7.0
Hawaii
as John Whipple
1966
6.3
Hawk
1966
0.0
The F.B.I.
as Herb Kenyon
1965
5.4
The Trials of O'Brien
as Roger Nathan
1965
6.8
Lilith
as Norman
1964
6.4
East Side/West Side
1963
7.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The DuPont Show of the Week
as Douglas McCann
1961
6.0
The Defenders
as Stanley McGuirk
1961
5.9
Mad Dog Coll
as Cop (uncredited)
1961
5.3
Tallahassee 7000
as Joe Lawson
1961
0.0
Route 66
as Motorist
1960
6.3
Naked City
as Mr. Jasper
1958
5.5
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The United States Steel Hour
1953
6.2
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2
Superman Redeemed
as Lex Luthor
N/A
0.0