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

The Playboy Murders

Unforgiven

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

Hawk

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

Young Frankenstein

First to Fight

Inside the Actors Studio

Mississippi Burning

The Royal Tenenbaums

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

The Making of 'Superman II'

East Side/West Side

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

V.I.P. Schaukel

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Shadow on the Land

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

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

American Masters

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Birdcage

Breakdown: 1975

Enemy of the State

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

A Bridge Too Far

Runaway Jury

Superman

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Hoosiers

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

The Poseidon Adventure

Scarecrow