
Acting
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
January 30, 1930
Died
February 17, 2025 (age 95)
Born in
San 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).

Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)
2025

The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (Archival Footage)
2025
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
2019

Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)
2017

We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator
2016

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
2008

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor
2006

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)
2005

Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole
2004

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator
2004

Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch
2003

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
2002

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
2002

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
2002

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001