Gene Hackman

Born: 1930-01-30, San Bernardino, California, USA

Died: 2025-02-17

Biography

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).

Filmography

• Route 66 (1960)
• The Defenders (1961)
• The F.B.I. (1965)
• The Invaders (1967)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• The United States Steel Hour (1953)
• The Firm (1993)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• Antz (1998)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Superman II (1980)
• Enemy of the State (1998)
• Runaway Jury (2003)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
• Absolute Power (1997)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• The Replacements (2000)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
• Get Shorty (1995)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• No Way Out (1987)
• The French Connection (1971)
• Uncommon Valor (1983)