Actor

Gene Hackman

January 30, 1930 · 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).

Notable work

7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
as Royal Tenenbaum
6.2
Antz (1998)
as General Mandible (voice)
7.2
Superman (1978)
as Lex Luthor
7.1
Enemy of the State (1998)
as Brill
7.9
Young Frankenstein (1974)
as Blindman
6.8
Superman II (1980)
as Lex Luthor
6.7
The Firm (1993)
as Avery Tolar
7.5
The French Connection (1971)
as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
7.5
The Conversation (1974)
as Harry Caul
7.2
Crimson Tide (1995)
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
6.5
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
as Herod
7.7
Mississippi Burning (1988)
as Agent Rupert Anderson

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