Gene Hackman

Born 1930 • 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 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).

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Filmography

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2025

Breakdown: 1975

Directed by Morgan Neville

as (archive footage)

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

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2025

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

as Self (Archival Footage)

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2021

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

as Self (archive footage)

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2019

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

as Self (archive footage)

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2017

We, the Marines

as Self - Narrator (voice)

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2017

Pattern Recognition

as Self (archive footage)

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2016

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

as Self - Narrator

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2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

as Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

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2009

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

as Self

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

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2008

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

as Self

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2006

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

as Lex Luthor

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2005

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

as Narrator (voice)

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2004

Welcome to Mooseport

as Monroe Cole

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

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2004

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

as Narrator

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2003

Runaway Jury

as Rankin Fitch

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2002

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

as Self

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

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2002

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

as Self

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2002

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

as Self

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

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2001

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

as Self

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2001

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

as Lex Luthor (archive footage)

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2001

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

as Self

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2001

Heroes of Iwo Jima

as Self - Host/Narrator

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2001

Heartbreakers

as William B. Tensy

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2001

The Royal Tenenbaums

as Royal Tenenbaum

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2001

Behind Enemy Lines

as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

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2001

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

as Self

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2001

The Mexican

as Arnold Margolese

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2001

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

as Self

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2001

Heist

as Joe Moore

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2000

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

as Self

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

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2000

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

as Self

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2000

The Replacements

as Jimmy McGinty

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2000

Under Suspicion

as Henry Hearst

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1999

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

as Narrator (voice)

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1998

Enemy of the State

as Brill

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1998

Antz

as General Mandible (voice)

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1998

Twilight

as Jack Ames

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1997

Absolute Power

as President Richmond

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1997

Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

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1996

The Chamber

as Sam Cayhall

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1996

The Birdcage

as Senator Kevin Keeley

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1996

Extreme Measures

as Dr. Lawrence Myrick

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

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1996

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

as Blind Man (archive footage)

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1995

Get Shorty

as Harry Zimm

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1995

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

as Self

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1995

Crimson Tide

as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey

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1995

The Quick and the Dead

as John Herod

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1994

Shurtleff on Acting

as Self

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1994

Wyatt Earp

as Nicholas Earp

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1994

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

as Self

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1993

Geronimo: An American Legend

as Brig. Gen. George Crook

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1993

The Firm

as Avery Tolar

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1992

Unforgiven

as 'Little' Bill Daggett

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1992

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

as Self

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1992

Earth and the American Dream

as Reader (voice)

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1991

Class Action

as Jedediah Tucker Ward

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1991

Company Business

as Sam Boyd

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1990

Postcards from the Edge

as Lowell Kolchek

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1990

Narrow Margin

as Robert Caulfield

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1990

Loose Cannons

as MacArthur Stern

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1989

The Package

as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

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1988

Mississippi Burning

as Agent Rupert Anderson

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1988

Another Woman

as Larry

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1988

Full Moon in Blue Water

as Floyd

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1988

Split Decisions

as Dan McGuinn

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1988

Bat★21

as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

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1987

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

as Lex Luthor

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1987

No Way Out

as Defense Secretary David Brice

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1986

Power

as Wilfred Buckley

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1986

Hoosiers

as Coach Norman Dale

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1985

Target

as Walter Lloyd

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1985

Twice in a Lifetime

as Harry MacKenzie

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1983

Uncommon Valor

as Col. Cal Rhodes

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1983

Under Fire

as Alex Grazier

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1983

Misunderstood

as Ned Rawley

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1983

The Making of 'Superman II'

as Self

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1983

Eureka

as Jack McCann

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1983

Two of a Kind

as God (voice) (uncredited)

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1982

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

as Self

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1981

Reds

as Pete van Wherry

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1981

All Night Long

as George Dupler

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1980

Superman II

as Lex Luthor

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1978

Formula 1 - Speed fever

as Self

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1978

Superman

as Lex Luthor

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1977

March or Die

as Major William Sherman Foster

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1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski

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1977

The Domino Principle

as Tucker

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1975

Night Moves

as Harry Moseby

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1975

Bite the Bullet

as Sam Clayton

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1975

Lucky Lady

as Kibby

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1975

French Connection II

as "Popeye" Doyle

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1974

Zandy's Bride

as Zandy Allen

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1974

The Conversation

as Harry Caul

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1974

Young Frankenstein

as Blindman

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1973

Scarecrow

as Max Millan

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1972

Prime Cut

as Mary Ann

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1972

The Poseidon Adventure

as Reverend Scott

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1971

The French Connection

as Jimmy Doyle

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1971

The Hunting Party

as Brandt Ruger

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1971

Cisco Pike

as Officer Leo Holland

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1971

Doctors' Wives

as Dave Randolph

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1970

I Never Sang for My Father

as Gene Garrison

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1969

Marooned

as Buzz Lloyd

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1969

Downhill Racer

as Eugene Claire

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1969

The Gypsy Moths

as Joe Browdy

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1969

Riot

as Red Fraker

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1969

The Sky Divers

as Self

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1968

The Split

as Lt. Walter Brill

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1968

Shadow on the Land

as Rev. Thomas Davis

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1967

Bonnie and Clyde

as Buck Barrow

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1967

A Covenant with Death

as Harmsworth

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1967

Banning

as Tommy Del Gaddo

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1967

First to Fight

as Sergeant Tweed

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1966

Hawaii

as John Whipple

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1964

Lilith

as Norman

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1961

Mad Dog Coll

as Cop (uncredited)