Gene Hackman

Actor

Born: January 30, 1930
Died: February 17, 2025 (age 95)
From: San Bernardino, California, USA

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…

Filmography (120)

Breakdown: 1975 (2025)
(archive footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special (2025)
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend (2021)
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence (2019)
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition (2017)
Self (archive footage)
We, the Marines (2017)
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima (2016)
Self - Narrator
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)
Self
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Lex Luthor
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage (2005)
Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
Monroe Cole
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Narrator
Runaway Jury (2003)
Rankin Fitch
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2002)
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (2002)
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger (2002)
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes (2001)
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson (2001)
Self
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Heist (2001)
Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection (2001)
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe (2001)
Himself/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001)
Self - Host/Narrator
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' (2001)
Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend (2001)
Self