Gene Hackman

Acting · Born 1930-01-30 in San Bernardino, California, USA

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

• Unforgiven as 'Little' Bill Daggett
• Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
• The French Connection as Jimmy Doyle
• The Poseidon Adventure as Reverend Scott
• The Conversation as Harry Caul
• Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson
• Young Frankenstein as Blindman
• Superman as Lex Luthor
• The Birdcage as Senator Kevin Keeley
• A Bridge Too Far as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski

TV

• Larry King Live as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The F.B.I. as Herb Kenyon
• The South Bank Show as Self
• Naked City as Mr. Jasper
• East Side/West Side
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
• The Defenders as Stanley McGuirk
• The United States Steel Hour
• CBS Playhouse