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…
Filmography
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Breakdown: 1975
2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
2025
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
The Playboy Murders
2023
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Pattern Recognition
2017
We, the Marines
2017
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2016
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Runaway Jury
2003
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Heist
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001
Heartbreakers
2001
The Mexican
2001
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Under Suspicion
2000
The Replacements
2000
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
The Directors
1999
Enemy of the State
1998
Antz
1998
Twilight
1998
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Absolute Power
1997
The Chamber
1996
Extreme Measures
1996
The Birdcage
1996
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
Get Shorty
1995
Crimson Tide
1995
The Quick and the Dead
1995
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Shurtleff on Acting
1994
Wyatt Earp
1994
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
The Firm
1993
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
Unforgiven
1992
Company Business
1991
Class Action
1991
Narrow Margin
1990
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Loose Cannons
1990
The Package
1989
Mississippi Burning
1988
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Another Woman
1988
Bat★21
1988
Split Decisions
1988
No Way Out
1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
Hoosiers
1986
American Masters
1986
Power
1986
Target
1985