- Known for
- Acting
- Credits
- 121 films
- Born
- January 30, 1930
- Died
- February 17, 2025 (aged 95)
- Place of birth
- San Bernardino, California, USA
Acting
Gene Hackman
Also known as Eugene Allen Hackman, Eugene Alder, Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman
Biography
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – 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).
Known for
Acting 119
- —Close-Up on The Conversation
- 2025Breakdown: 1975 · (archive footage)
- 2025The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special · Self (archive footage)
- 2024Remembering Gene Wilder · Self (archive footage)
- 2019Sacheen: Breaking the Silence · Self (archive footage)
- 2017Pattern Recognition · Self (archive footage)
- 2017We, the Marines · Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016
Crew 1
- 1990Miami Blues · Thanks
Production 1
- 2000Under Suspicion · Executive Producer
