Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Biography
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. In a career that spanned six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Films Awards and four Golden Globes. Hackman's two Academy Award wins were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous Sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles as 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). Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II (1980). He also acted in: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Scarecrow (1973), The Conversation (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Under Fire (1983), Power (1986), Loose Cannons (1990), The Firm (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Enemy of the State (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and Runaway Jury (2003). He retired from acting after starring in Welcome to Mooseport (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Hackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Lex Luthor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Monroe Cole
as Narrator
as Rankin Fitch
as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
as Self
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
as Joe Moore
as Royal Tenenbaum
as Himself/Narrator
as Self - Host/Narrator
as William B. Tensy
as Arnold Margolese
as Henry Hearst
as Jimmy McGinty
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Brill
as General Mandible (voice)
as Jack Ames
as Self (archive footage)
as President Richmond
as Sam Cayhall
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
as Senator Kevin Keeley
as Blind Man (archive footage)
as Harry Zimm
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
as John Herod
as Self
as Nicholas Earp
as Self
as Brig. Gen. George Crook
as Avery Tolar
as Reader (voice)
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
as Sam Boyd
as Jedediah Tucker Ward
as Robert Caulfield
as Lowell Kolchek
as MacArthur Stern
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
as Agent Rupert Anderson
as Floyd
as Larry
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
as Dan McGuinn
as Defense Secretary David Brice
as Lex Luthor
as Coach Norman Dale
as Wilfred Buckley
as Self
as Walter Lloyd
as Harry MacKenzie
as Self
as Self
as Ned Rawley
as Col. Cal Rhodes
as God (voice) (uncredited)
as Alex Grazier
as Jack McCann
as Self
as Pete van Wherry
as George Dupler
as Self
as Lex Luthor
as Lex Luthor
as Self
as Self
as Major William Sherman Foster
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
as Tucker
as Kibby
as Sam Clayton
as "Popeye" Doyle
as Harry Moseby
as Blindman
as Zandy Allen
as Harry Caul
as Max Millan
as Reverend Scott
as Mary Ann
as Officer Leo Holland
as Jimmy Doyle
as Brandt Ruger
as Dave Randolph
as Self
as Gene Garrison
as Buzz Lloyd
as Eugene Claire
as Joe Browdy
as Red Fraker
as Self
as Self (Archive Footage)
as Rev. Thomas Davis
as Lt. Walter Brill
as Tommy Del Gaddo
as Buck Barrow
as Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer
as Harmsworth
as Sergeant Tweed
as Self
as Tom Jessup
as John Whipple
as Herb Kenyon
as Roger Nathan
as Norman
as Cop (uncredited)
as Self
as Douglas McCann
as Stanley McGuirk
as Motorist
as Holt
as Mr. Jasper
as Self
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
as Self - Winner
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
Crew
as Thanks
Producer
as Executive Producer