Gene Hackman
Acting
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
2025The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (Archival Footage)
2025Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)
2019Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
2017Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)
2017We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator
2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2008Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
2006Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor
2005Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)
2004Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole
2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator
2003Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch
2002Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
2002Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
2001Heartbreakers
William B. Tensy
2001Heist
Joe Moore
2001The Mexican
Arnold Margolese
2001Behind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum
2001With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self