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Gene Hackman
Known for: ActingEugene 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 77
Unforgiven
as 'Little' Bill Daggett 
Antz
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as General Mandible (voice) 
Runaway Jury
as Rankin Fitch 
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Royal Tenenbaum 
Crimson Tide
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey 
The Quick and the Dead
as Herod 
Narrow Margin
as Robert Caulfield 
Superman
as Lex Luthor 
Enemy of the State
as Brill 
Absolute Power
as President Richmond 
Behind Enemy Lines
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group 
The Firm
as Avery Tolar 
Superman II
as Lex Luthor 
A Bridge Too Far
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as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski 
The Replacements
as Jimmy McGinty 
Bonnie and Clyde
as Buck Barrow 
The Birdcage
as Senator Kevin Keeley 
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Rupert Anderson 
The Conversation
as Harry Caul 
The Poseidon Adventure
as Reverend Scott 
No Way Out
as Defense Secretary David Brice 
The Mexican
as Margolese 
Wyatt Earp
as Nicholas Earp 
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Brig. Gen. George Crook 
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lex Luthor 
The French Connection
as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle 
Get Shorty
as Harry Zimm 
Scarecrow
as Max Millan 
Heartbreakers
as William B. Tensy 
The Hunting Party
as Brandt Ruger 
Under Suspicion
as Henry Hearst 
Uncommon Valor
as Col. Cal Rhodes 
The Chamber
as Sam Cayhall 
The Domino Principle
as Tucker 
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Lex Luthor 
The Package
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher 
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick 
Target
as Walter Lloyd 
Night Moves
as Harry Moseby 
Heist
as Joe Moore 
Another Woman
as Larry 
Postcards from the Edge
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as Lowell Kolchek 
The Split
as Lt. Walter Brill 
Welcome to Mooseport
as Monroe Cole 
Class Action
as Jedediah Tucker Ward 
Marooned
as Buzz Lloyd 
French Connection II
as "Popeye" Doyle 
Hoosiers
as Norman Dale 
Under Fire
as Alex Grazier 
March or Die
as Major William Sherman Foster 
Downhill Racer
as Eugene Claire 
Bite the Bullet
as Sam Clayton 
The Gypsy Moths
as Joe Browdy 
Loose Cannons
as MacArthur Stern 
Prime Cut
as Mary Ann 
Twilight
as Jack Ames 
All Night Long
as George Dupler 
Company Business
as Sam Boyd 
Power
as Wilfred Buckley 
Bat★21
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton 
Hawaii
as John Whipple 
Twice in a Lifetime
as Harry MacKenzie 
Split Decisions
as Dan McGuinn 
Eureka
as Jack McCann 
A Covenant with Death
as Harmsworth 
Lucky Lady
as Kibby 
Zandy's Bride
as Zandy Allen 
Full Moon in Blue Water
as Floyd 
Lilith
as Norman 
I Never Sang for My Father
as Gene Garrison 
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage) 
First to Fight
as Sergeant Tweed 
We, the Marines
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as Self - Narrator (voice)