Gene Hackman
Actor
- Born
- January 30, 1930 · San Bernardino, California, USA
- Died
- February 17, 2025 (age 95)
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
The Royal Tenenbaums
October 5, 2001
Unforgiven
August 7, 1992
Antz
October 2, 1998
Enemy of the State
November 20, 1998
Superman
December 14, 1978
Young Frankenstein
December 15, 1974
Superman II
December 4, 1980
The Firm
June 30, 1993
The French Connection
October 9, 1971
The Conversation
April 12, 1974
Crimson Tide
May 12, 1995
The Quick and the Dead
February 9, 1995
Acting121
- 2025Breakdown: 1975 as Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
- 2025The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Sacheen: Breaking the Silence as Self (archive footage)
- 2017Pattern Recognition as Self (archive footage)
- 2017We, the Marines as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima as Self - Narrator
- 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films