Gene Hackman

Known for ActingBorn 1930-01-30Died 2025-02-17San 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Sports on the Silver Screen

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

Tallahassee 7000

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Unforgiven

The Playboy Murders

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

V.I.P. Schaukel

Hawk

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

Young Frankenstein

First to Fight

Mississippi Burning

Inside the Actors Studio

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Making of 'Superman II'

Remembering Gene Wilder

East Side/West Side

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

100 Years at the Movies

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Shadow on the Land

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

The Conversation

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

The French Connection

Bonnie and Clyde

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Crimson Tide

The Birdcage

Breakdown: 1975

Enemy of the State

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

Runaway Jury

A Bridge Too Far

Superman

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Hoosiers

The Poseidon Adventure

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives