About
Gene Hackman
Overview
Eugene Allen 'Gene' Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. He was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, he has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades.
He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); No Way Out (1987); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and his final film role before retirement, in Welcome to Mooseport (2004).
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Known for
Acting |
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| 2024 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 62 Fair |
| 2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Sacheen: Breaking the Silence | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | Pattern Recognition | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | We, The Marines | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Actor | Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Actor | Lex Luthor | 64 Fair |
| 2006 | Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Actor | Monroe Cole | 56 Average |
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Actor | Rankin Fitch | 66 Fair |
| 2002 | Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes | Actor | Lex Luthor (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2001 | With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Behind Enemy Lines | Actor | Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group | 62 Fair |
| 2001 | Heist | Actor | Joe Moore | 61 Fair |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Actor | Royal Tenenbaum | 73 Good |
| 2001 | Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe | Actor | Himself/Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Heroes of Iwo Jima | Actor | Self - Host/Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Heartbreakers | Actor | William B. Tensy | 60 Fair |
| 2001 | The Mexican | Actor | Arnold Margolese | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Actor | Henry Hearst | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Actor | Jimmy McGinty | 63 Fair |
| 2000 | The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Actor | Brill | 68 Fair |
| 1998 | Antz | Actor | General Mandible (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | Twilight | Actor | Jack Ames | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Sports on the Silver Screen | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Actor | President Richmond | 63 Fair |
| 1996 | The Chamber | Actor | Sam Cayhall | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Extreme Measures | Actor | Dr. Lawrence Myrick | 59 Average |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Actor | Senator Kevin Keeley | 66 Fair |
| 1996 | Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein | Actor | Blind Man (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Actor | Harry Zimm | 63 Fair |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Actor | Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey | 68 Fair |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | Actor | John Herod | 63 Fair |
| 1994 | Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1994 | Shurtleff on Acting | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp | Actor | Nicholas Earp | 64 Fair |
| 1993 | Geronimo: An American Legend | Actor | Brig. Gen. George Crook | 60 Fair |
| 1993 | The Firm | Actor | Avery Tolar | 65 Fair |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | Actor | Reader (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Actor | 'Little' Bill Daggett | 76 Good |
| 1991 | Company Business | Actor | Sam Boyd | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Class Action | Actor | Jedediah Tucker Ward | 60 Fair |
| 1990 | Narrow Margin | Actor | Robert Caulfield | 60 Fair |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Actor | Lowell Kolchek | 61 Fair |
| 1990 | Loose Cannons | Actor | MacArthur Stern | 57 Average |
| 1989 | The Package | Actor | Sgt. Johnny Gallagher | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | Actor | Agent Rupert Anderson | 72 Good |
| 1988 | Full Moon in Blue Water | Actor | Floyd | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Actor | Larry | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | Bat★21 | Actor | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton | 60 Fair |
| 1988 | Split Decisions | Actor | Dan McGuinn | 58 Average |
| 1987 | No Way Out | Actor | Defense Secretary David Brice | 64 Fair |
| 1987 | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Actor | Lex Luthor | 49 Bad |
| 1986 | Hoosiers | Actor | Coach Norman Dale | 64 Fair |
| 1986 | Power | Actor | Wilfred Buckley | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Target | Actor | Walter Lloyd | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime | Actor | Harry MacKenzie | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Misunderstood | Actor | Ned Rawley | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Uncommon Valor | Actor | Col. Cal Rhodes | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Two of a Kind | Actor | God (voice) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Under Fire | Actor | Alex Grazier | 60 Fair |
| 1983 | Eureka | Actor | Jack McCann | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Superman II' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1981 | Reds | Actor | Pete van Wherry | 62 Fair |
| 1981 | All Night Long | Actor | George Dupler | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Superman II | Actor | Lex Luthor | 65 Fair |
| 1980 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Superman | Actor | Lex Luthor | 69 Fair |
| 1978 | Formula 1 - Speed fever | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1977 | March or Die | Actor | Major William Sherman Foster | 58 Average |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Actor | Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski | 66 Fair |
| 1977 | The Domino Principle | Actor | Tucker | 58 Average |
| 1975 | Lucky Lady | Actor | Kibby | 58 Average |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet | Actor | Sam Clayton | 59 Average |
| 1975 | French Connection II | Actor | "Popeye" Doyle | 63 Fair |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Actor | Harry Moseby | 61 Fair |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | Actor | Blindman | 76 Good |
| 1974 | Zandy's Bride | Actor | Zandy Allen | 59 Average |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Actor | Harry Caul | 71 Good |
| 1973 | Scarecrow | Actor | Max Millan | 62 Fair |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Actor | Reverend Scott | 66 Fair |
| 1972 | Prime Cut | Actor | Mary Ann | 59 Average |
| 1972 | Cisco Pike | Actor | Officer Leo Holland | 58 Average |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Actor | Jimmy Doyle | 71 Good |
| 1971 | The Hunting Party | Actor | Brandt Ruger | 59 Average |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Actor | Dave Randolph | 58 Average |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Actor | Gene Garrison | 59 Average |
| 1969 | Marooned | Actor | Buzz Lloyd | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | Actor | Eugene Claire | 59 Average |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Actor | Joe Browdy | 59 Average |
| 1969 | Riot | Actor | Red Fraker | 58 Average |
| 1969 | The Sky Divers | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1969 | How Fast? | Actor | Self (Archive Footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1968 | Shadow on the Land | Actor | Rev. Thomas Davis | 59 Average |
| 1968 | The Split | Actor | Lt. Walter Brill | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Banning | Actor | Tommy Del Gaddo | 58 Average |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Actor | Buck Barrow | 71 Good |
| 1967 | Community Shelter Planning | Actor | Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer | 59 Average |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Actor | Harmsworth | 58 Average |
| 1967 | First to Fight | Actor | Sergeant Tweed | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Hawaii | Actor | John Whipple | 59 Average |
| 1964 | Lilith | Actor | Norman | 59 Average |
| 1961 | Mad Dog Coll | Actor | Cop (uncredited) | 58 Average |
Production |
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| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
Crew |
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| 1990 | Miami Blues | Crew | Thanks | 59 Average |