Gene Hackman
Actor
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
Unforgiven
as 'Little' Bill Daggett 1992
Antz
as General Mandible (voice) 1998
Superman
as Lex Luthor 1978
Enemy of the State
as Brill 1998
Young Frankenstein
as Blindman 1974
Superman II
as Lex Luthor 1980
The Firm
as Avery Tolar 1993
The French Connection
as Jimmy Doyle 1971
The Conversation
as Harry Caul 1974
Crimson Tide
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey 1995
The Quick and the Dead
as John Herod 1995
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Rupert Anderson 1988
Bonnie and Clyde
as Buck Barrow 1967
Behind Enemy Lines
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group 2001
The Mexican
as Arnold Margolese 2001
Runaway Jury
as Rankin Fitch 2003