Gene Hackman
Known for Acting
Biography
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).
Filmography
Superman
1978
as Lex Luthor
Unforgiven
1992
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
Enemy of the State
1998
as Brill
The Firm
1993
as Avery Tolar
The Package
1989
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Antz
1998
as General Mandible (voice)
The Quick and the Dead
1995
as Herod
Young Frankenstein
1974
as Blindman
Superman II
1980
as Lex Luthor
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Royal Tenenbaum
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Birdcage
1996
as Senator Kevin Keeley
Get Shorty
1995
as Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide
1995
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Mexican
2001
as Arnold Margolese
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Lex Luthor
Runaway Jury
2003
as Rankin Fitch
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
as Buck Barrow
Under Fire
1983
as Alex Grazier
The Replacements
2000
as Jimmy McGinty