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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman

Birthday: 1930-01-30 | Place of Birth: 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).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

as    Self (Archival Footage)

2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

as    Self (archive footage)

2017
Pattern Recognition

as    Self (archive footage)

2017
We, the Marines

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2016
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

as    Self - Narrator

2012
Making The Royal Tenenbaums

as    Self / Royal T.

2006
2005
Get Shorty: Look At Me

as    Self

2005
2004
Welcome to Mooseport

as    Monroe Cole

2003
Runaway Jury

as    Rankin Fitch

2002
2001
Behind Enemy Lines

as    Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

2001
The Mexican

as    Arnold Margolese

2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

as    Himself/Narrator

2001
Heist

as    Joe Moore

2001
The Royal Tenenbaums

as    Royal Tenenbaum

2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima

as    Self - Host/Narrator

2001
Heartbreakers

as    William B. Tensy

2000
Under Suspicion

as    Henry Hearst

2000
The Replacements

as    Jimmy McGinty