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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
The Royal Tenenbaums
+3
as Royal Tenenbaum 
Runaway Jury
+3
as Rankin Fitch 
Unforgiven
+8
as 'Little' Bill Daggett 
Crimson Tide
+6
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey 
The Quick and the Dead
+7
as Herod 
Antz
+4
as General Mandible (voice) 
Superman
+7
as Lex Luthor 
Enemy of the State
+4
as Brill 
The Firm
+14
as Avery Tolar 
Absolute Power
+3
as President Richmond 
Superman II
+6
as Lex Luthor 
A Bridge Too Far
+13
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski 
Bonnie and Clyde
+3
as Buck Barrow 
The Birdcage
+5
as Senator Kevin Keeley 
The Replacements
+4
as Jimmy McGinty 
Mississippi Burning
+10
as Agent Rupert Anderson 
Behind Enemy Lines
+5
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group 
The Conversation
+10
as Harry Caul 
The Poseidon Adventure
+2
as Reverend Scott 
No Way Out
+9
as Defense Secretary David Brice 
The Mexican
+11
as Margolese 
Wyatt Earp
+3
as Nicholas Earp 
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
+6
as Lex Luthor 
The French Connection
+3
as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle 
Heartbreakers
+7
as William B. Tensy 
Get Shorty
+4
as Harry Zimm 
Under Suspicion
+2
as Henry Hearst 
Uncommon Valor
+3
as Col. Cal Rhodes 
The Chamber
+2
as Sam Cayhall 
The Domino Principle
+6
as Tucker 
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
+1
as Lex Luthor 
The Package
+11
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher 
Extreme Measures
+2
as Dr. Lawrence Myrick 
Narrow Margin
+2
as Robert Caulfield 
Geronimo: An American Legend
+4
as Brig. Gen. George Crook 
Night Moves
+2
as Harry Moseby 
Heist
+2
as Joe Moore 
Another Woman
+8
as Larry 
Postcards from the Edge
+5
as Lowell Kolchek 
Welcome to Mooseport
+4
as Monroe Cole 
Class Action
as Jedediah Tucker Ward 
French Connection II
+2
as "Popeye" Doyle 
Hoosiers
+7
as Norman Dale 
Under Fire
+7
as Alex Grazier 
March or Die
+11
as Major William Sherman Foster 
Downhill Racer
+7
as Eugene Claire 
Bite the Bullet
+8
as Sam Clayton 
Scarecrow
+2
as Max Millan 
The Gypsy Moths
+2
as Joe Browdy 
Loose Cannons
+5
as MacArthur Stern 
The Split
+4
as Lt. Walter Brill 
Prime Cut
as Mary Ann 
Twilight
+3
as Jack Ames 
The Hunting Party
+4
as Brandt Ruger 
All Night Long
as George Dupler 
Company Business
+7
as Sam Boyd 
Hawaii
+4
as John Whipple 
Marooned
+5
as Buzz Lloyd 
Power
+3
as Wilfred Buckley 
Bat★21
as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton 
Lilith
+2
as Norman 
Twice in a Lifetime
+2
as Harry MacKenzie 
Target
+1
as Walter Lloyd 
Eureka
+4
as Jack McCann 
A Covenant with Death
+2
as Harmsworth 
Split Decisions
+3
as Dan McGuinn 
Lucky Lady
as Kibby 
Zandy's Bride
as Zandy Allen 
Full Moon in Blue Water
+5
as Floyd 
I Never Sang for My Father
+3
as Gene Garrison 
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
+3
as Self (archive footage) 
First to Fight
as Sergeant Tweed 
+1 
We, the Marines
+12
as Self - Narrator (voice)