Actor
Gene Hackman
Biography

Eugene Allen 'Gene' Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. He was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, he has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Self (archive footage)
2021 -- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Sacheen: Breaking the Silence | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- Pattern Recognition | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- We, The Marines | Narrator (voice)
2014 -- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self
2009 -- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self
2008 -- Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Self
2006 -- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Lex Luthor
2006 -- Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman | Self (archive footage)
2005 -- Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- Welcome to Mooseport | Monroe Cole
2004 -- Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Narrator
2003 -- Runaway Jury | Rankin Fitch
2002 -- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self
2002 -- All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Self
2002 -- Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self
2001 -- Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes | Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001 -- With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson | Self
2001 -- Behind Enemy Lines | Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001 -- Heist | Joe Moore
2001 -- The Royal Tenenbaums | Royal Tenenbaum
2001 -- Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection | Self
2001 -- Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe | Himself/Narrator
2001 -- Heroes of Iwo Jima | Self - Host/Narrator
2001 -- Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' | Self
2001 -- Heartbreakers | William B. Tensy
2001 -- The Mexican | Arnold Margolese
2001 -- Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend | Self
2000 -- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self
2000 -- Under Suspicion | Henry Hearst
2000 -- The Replacements | Jimmy McGinty
2000 -- The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' | Self
1999 -- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Narrator (voice)
1998 -- Enemy of the State | Brill
1998 -- Antz | General Mandible (voice)
1998 -- Twilight | Jack Ames
1997 -- Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- Absolute Power | President Richmond
1996 -- The Chamber | Sam Cayhall
1996 -- Extreme Measures | Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1996 -- The Birdcage | Senator Kevin Keeley
1996 -- Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein | Blind Man (archive footage)
1995 -- Get Shorty | Harry Zimm
1995 -- Crimson Tide | Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
1995 -- The Quick and the Dead | John Herod
1994 -- Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self
1994 -- Shurtleff on Acting | Self
1994 -- Wyatt Earp | Nicholas Earp
1993 -- Geronimo: An American Legend | Brig. Gen. George Crook
1993 -- The Firm | Avery Tolar
1992 -- Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice)
1992 -- Unforgiven | 'Little' Bill Daggett
1991 -- Company Business | Sam Boyd
1991 -- Class Action | Jedediah Tucker Ward
1990 -- Narrow Margin | Robert Caulfield
1990 -- Postcards from the Edge | Lowell Kolchek
1990 -- Loose Cannons | MacArthur Stern
1989 -- The Package | Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1988 -- Mississippi Burning | Agent Rupert Anderson
1988 -- Full Moon in Blue Water | Floyd
1988 -- Another Woman | Larry
1988 -- Bat★21 | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
1988 -- Split Decisions | Dan McGuinn
1987 -- No Way Out | Defense Secretary David Brice
1987 -- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Lex Luthor
1986 -- Hoosiers | Coach Norman Dale
1986 -- Power | Wilfred Buckley
1985 -- Target | Walter Lloyd
1985 -- Twice in a Lifetime | Harry MacKenzie
1985 -- Night of 100 Stars II | Self
1984 -- Misunderstood | Ned Rawley
1983 -- Uncommon Valor | Col. Cal Rhodes
1983 -- Two of a Kind | God (voice) (uncredited)
1983 -- Under Fire | Alex Grazier
1983 -- Eureka | Jack McCann
1982 -- The Making of 'Superman II' | Self
1981 -- Reds | Pete van Wherry
1981 -- All Night Long | George Dupler
1980 -- Superman II | Lex Luthor
1980 -- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self
1978 -- Superman | Lex Luthor
1978 -- Formula 1 - Speed fever | Self
1977 -- March or Die | Major William Sherman Foster
1977 -- A Bridge Too Far | Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
1977 -- The Domino Principle | Tucker
1975 -- Lucky Lady | Kibby
1975 -- Bite the Bullet | Sam Clayton
1975 -- French Connection II | "Popeye" Doyle
1975 -- Night Moves | Harry Moseby
1974 -- Young Frankenstein | Blindman
1974 -- Zandy's Bride | Zandy Allen
1974 -- The Conversation | Harry Caul
1973 -- Scarecrow | Max Millan
1972 -- The Poseidon Adventure | Reverend Scott
1972 -- Prime Cut | Mary Ann
1972 -- Cisco Pike | Officer Leo Holland
1971 -- The French Connection | Jimmy Doyle
1971 -- The Hunting Party | Brandt Ruger
1971 -- Doctors' Wives | Dave Randolph
1970 -- I Never Sang for My Father | Gene Garrison
1969 -- Marooned | Buzz Lloyd
1969 -- Downhill Racer | Eugene Claire
1969 -- The Gypsy Moths | Joe Browdy
1969 -- Riot | Red Fraker
1969 -- How Fast? | Self (Archive Footage)
1969 -- The Sky Divers | Self
1968 -- Shadow on the Land | Rev. Thomas Davis
1968 -- The Split | Lt. Walter Brill
1967 -- Banning | Tommy Del Gaddo
1967 -- Bonnie and Clyde | Buck Barrow
1967 -- Community Shelter Planning | Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer
1967 -- A Covenant with Death | Harmsworth
1967 -- First to Fight | Sergeant Tweed
1966 -- Hawaii | John Whipple
1964 -- Lilith | Norman
1961 -- Mad Dog Coll | Cop (uncredited)
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