Gene Hackman
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).
Filmography
Tallahassee 7000
1961 · 8.5
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996 · 8.3
Hawk
1966 · 8.0
Unforgiven
1992 · 7.9
First to Fight
1967 · 7.9
Young Frankenstein
1974 · 7.9
East Side/West Side
1963 · 7.8
Shadow on the Land
1968 · 7.7
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999 · 7.7
Mississippi Burning
1988 · 7.7
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · 7.5
The Conversation
1974 · 7.5
The French Connection
1971 · 7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · 7.5
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · 7.4
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · 7.2
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · 7.2
Crimson Tide
1995 · 7.2
Superman
1978 · 7.2
The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · 7.2
Enemy of the State
1998 · 7.1
The Birdcage
1996 · 7.0
CBS Playhouse
1966 · 7.0
Runaway Jury
2003 · 7.0
Hoosiers
1986 · 7.0
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · 7.0
The Trials of O'Brien
1965 · 7.0
Scarecrow
1973 · 7.0
No Way Out
1987 · 6.9
Reds
1981 · 6.9
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001 · 6.9
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · 6.9
The Invaders
1967 · 6.8
Wyatt Earp
1994 · 6.8
French Connection II
1975 · 6.8
Another Woman
1988 · 6.8
The Firm
1993 · 6.7
Superman II
1980 · 6.7
The Replacements
2000 · 6.7
Route 66
1960 · 6.7
Under Fire
1983 · 6.7
Night Moves
1975 · 6.7
I Never Sang for My Father
1970 · 6.7
The Split
1968 · 6.7
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · 6.7
Absolute Power
1997 · 6.7
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · 6.6
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · 6.6
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · 6.6
Get Shorty
1995 · 6.5
Prime Cut
1972 · 6.5
Misunderstood
1983 · 6.5
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · 6.5
Narrow Margin
1990 · 6.4
Bite the Bullet
1975 · 6.4
Zandy's Bride
1974 · 6.4
Lilith
1964 · 6.4
Heist
2001 · 6.3
The Defenders
1961 · 6.3
The United States Steel Hour
1953 · 6.3
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · 6.3
Class Action
1991 · 6.3
Bat★21
1988 · 6.3
Hawaii
1966 · 6.3
Antz
1998 · 6.2
Uncommon Valor
1983 · 6.2
The Hunting Party
1971 · 6.2
Heartbreakers
2001 · 6.2
Under Suspicion
2000 · 6.1
The Package
1989 · 6.1
Twilight
1998 · 6.1
Two of a Kind
1983 · 6.1
Extreme Measures
1996 · 6.0
Downhill Racer
1969 · 6.0
The Gypsy Moths
1969 · 6.0
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988 · 6.0
The Mexican
2001 · 6.0
The Chamber
1996 · 5.9
Marooned
1969 · 5.9
Target
1985 · 5.9
March or Die
1977 · 5.8
Power
1986 · 5.8
The Domino Principle
1977 · 5.8
Naked City
1958 · 5.7
Banning
1967 · 5.7
Twice in a Lifetime
1985 · 5.7
The F.B.I.
1965 · 5.6
Lucky Lady
1975 · 5.6
Cisco Pike
1972 · 5.6
Mad Dog Coll
1961 · 5.4
Eureka
1983 · 5.3
Company Business
1991 · 5.3
All Night Long
1981 · 5.3
Riot
1969 · 5.3
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 · 5.1
Split Decisions
1988 · 5.1
Loose Cannons
1990 · 5.0
Doctors' Wives
1971 · 4.9
A Covenant with Death
1967 · 4.8
The Hollywood Greats
1977 · 4.7
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · 4.6
Close-Up on The Conversation
— · 0.0
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005 · 0.0