Gene Hackman
Acting
🎂 1930-01-30
Eugene Allen Hackman was an American actor. In a career that spanned six decades, he received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Films Awards and four Golden Globes. Hackman's two Academy Award wins were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous Sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles as 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). Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II (1980). He also acted in: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Scarecrow (1973), The Conversation (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Under Fire (1983), Power (1986), Loose Cannons (1990), The Firm (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Enemy of the State (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and Runaway Jury (2003). He retired from acting after starring in Welcome to Mooseport (2004).
Cast credits(156)
Self
1962
Self
1961
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Mr. Jasper
1958
Motorist
1960
Herb Kenyon
1965
Lex Luthor
1978
Self
2007
1953
Self
1968
Lex Luthor
1980
Tom Jessup
1967
Stanley McGuirk
1961
Self
1986
Self
1953
Self
1962
Self
1974
'Little' Bill Daggett
1992
Royal Tenenbaum
2001
General Mandible (voice)
1998
Brill
1998
Jimmy McGinty
2000
Nicholas Earp
1994
John Herod
1995
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
1977
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
2001
Lex Luthor
1987
Avery Tolar
1993
Self
1978
Defense Secretary David Brice
1987
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
1995
Jimmy Doyle
1971
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Agent Rupert Anderson
1988
Lex Luthor
2006
Rankin Fitch
2003
Self (archive footage)
2023
Senator Kevin Keeley
1996
Buck Barrow
1967
Blindman
1974
Self
1981
Harry Caul
1974
William B. Tensy
2001
Harry Zimm
1995
Buzz Lloyd
1969
Self
1971
Self
1999
Henry Hearst
2000
Reverend Scott
1972
Self
1973
Self (archive footage)
2014
1966
Harry Moseby
1975
President Richmond
1997
Max Millan
1973
Brig. Gen. George Crook
1993
Arnold Margolese
2001
Joe Moore
2001
Pete van Wherry
1981
Himself
1973
Reader (voice)
1992
Robert Caulfield
1990
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
2001
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1996
Coach Norman Dale
1986
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
1989
Col. Cal Rhodes
1983
John Whipple
1966
Zandy Allen
1974
Major William Sherman Foster
1977
Holt
1960
Self
2013
Sam Cayhall
1996
Sergeant Tweed
1967
Tucker
1977
Self
2001
Self
2009
Jack Ames
1998
Self
1978
Walter Lloyd
1985
MacArthur Stern
1990
Lowell Kolchek
1990
Brandt Ruger
1971
God (voice) (uncredited)
1983
Mary Ann
1972
Sam Boyd
1991
"Popeye" Doyle
1975
Larry
1988
Wilfred Buckley
1986
Narrator (voice)
1999
Self (archive footage)
2021
Gene Garrison
1970
Self
1985
Harmsworth
1967
1963
Jedediah Tucker Ward
1991
Roger Nathan
1965
Harry MacKenzie
1985
Self
2002
Sam Clayton
1975
1977
Self
2000
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Officer Leo Holland
1971
Self
1992
Norman
1964
Joe Lawson
1961
Lt. Walter Brill
1968
Tommy Del Gaddo
1967
Red Fraker
1969
Alex Grazier
1983
George Dupler
1981
1966
Rev. Thomas Davis
1968
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
1988
Jack McCann
1983
Floyd
1988
Self
2002
Dave Randolph
1971
Narrator
2004
Monroe Cole
2004
Douglas McCann
1961
Eugene Claire
1969
Self (archive footage)
2019
Kibby
1975
Self
1995
Dan McGuinn
1988
Self
1994
Joe Browdy
1969
Self
2002
Self
2001
Blind Man (archive footage)
1996
Self
1982
Self
2001
Self
2008
Cop (uncredited)
1961
Self
2001
Self
1983
Self - Host/Narrator
2001
Self
2000
Self - Narrator
2016
Self
1994
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Ned Rawley
1983
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self (archive footage)
1997
Self
1969
Self (Archive Footage)
1969
Self (Archival Footage)
2025
Self
1994
Narrator (voice)
2005
Himself/Narrator
2001
