Gene Hackman
Born January 30, 1930 (Age: 96)
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San Bernardino, California, USA
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).
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).
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Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
2025
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 95
No Image
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 90
Pattern Recognition
2017
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 87
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
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as Lex Luthor
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Age: 76
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
2005
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 75
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
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as Monroe Cole
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Age: 74
Runaway Jury
2003
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as Rankin Fitch
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Age: 72
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 72
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 72
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
2002
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as Self
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Age: 72
Making THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (with Wes Anderson & Robert Yeoman)
2001
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as Self
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Age: 71
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
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as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
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Age: 71
Heist
2001
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as Joe Moore
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Age: 71
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
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as Royal Tenenbaum
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Age: 71
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
2001
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as Himself/Narrator
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Age: 71
Heartbreakers
2001
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as William B. Tensy
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Age: 71
The Mexican
2001
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as Arnold Margolese
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Age: 71
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
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as Self
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Age: 70
Under Suspicion
2000
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as Henry Hearst
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Age: 70
The Replacements
2000
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as Jimmy McGinty
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Age: 70
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 69
Enemy of the State
1998
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as Brill
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Age: 68
Antz
1998
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as General Mandible (voice)
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Age: 68
Twilight
1998
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as Jack Ames
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Age: 68
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
Absolute Power
1997
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as President Richmond
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Age: 67
The Chamber
1996
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as Sam Cayhall
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Age: 66
Extreme Measures
1996
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as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
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Age: 66
The Birdcage
1996
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as Senator Kevin Keeley
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Age: 66
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
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as Blind Man (archive footage)
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Age: 65
Get Shorty
1995
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as Harry Zimm
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Age: 65
Crimson Tide
1995
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as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
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Age: 65
The Quick and the Dead
1995
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as John Herod
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Age: 65
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995
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as Self
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Age: 64
Shurtleff on Acting
1994
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as Self
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Age: 64
Wyatt Earp
1994
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as Nicholas Earp
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Age: 64
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
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as Brig. Gen. George Crook
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Age: 63
The Firm
1993
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as Avery Tolar
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Age: 63
Earth and the American Dream
1992
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as Reader (voice)
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Age: 62
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
1992
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as Self
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Age: 62
Unforgiven
1992
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as 'Little' Bill Daggett
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Age: 62
Company Business
1991
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as Sam Boyd
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Age: 61
Class Action
1991
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as Jedediah Tucker Ward
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Age: 61
Narrow Margin
1990
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as Robert Caulfield
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Age: 60
Postcards from the Edge
1990
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as Lowell Kolchek
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Age: 60
Loose Cannons
1990
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as MacArthur Stern
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Age: 60
The Package
1989
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as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
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Age: 59
Mississippi Burning
1988
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as Agent Rupert Anderson
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Age: 58
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
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as Floyd
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Age: 58
Another Woman
1988
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as Larry
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Age: 58
Bat★21
1988
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as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
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Age: 58
Split Decisions
1988
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as Dan McGuinn
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Age: 58
No Way Out
1987
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as Defense Secretary David Brice
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Age: 57
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
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as Lex Luthor
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Age: 57
Hoosiers
1986
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as Coach Norman Dale
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Age: 56
Power
1986
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as Wilfred Buckley
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Age: 56
Target
1985
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as Walter Lloyd
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Age: 55
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
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as Harry MacKenzie
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Age: 55
Uncommon Valor
1983
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as Col. Cal Rhodes
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Age: 53
Two of a Kind
1983
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as God (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 53
Misunderstood
1983
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as Ned Rawley
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Age: 53
Eureka
1983
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as Jack McCann
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Age: 53
Reds
1981
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as Pete van Wherry
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Age: 51
All Night Long
1981
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as George Dupler
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Age: 51
Superman II
1980
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as Lex Luthor
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Age: 50
Superman
1978
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as Lex Luthor
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Age: 48
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
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as Self
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Age: 48
March or Die
1977
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as Major William Sherman Foster
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Age: 47
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
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Age: 47
Lucky Lady
1975
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as Kibby
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Age: 45
French Connection II
1975
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as "Popeye" Doyle
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Age: 45
Young Frankenstein
1974
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as Blindman
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Age: 44
Zandy's Bride
1974
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as Zandy Allen
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Age: 44
The Conversation
1974
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as Harry Caul
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Age: 44
Scarecrow
1973
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as Max Millan
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Age: 43
On the Road with: Scarecrow
1973
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as Self
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Age: 42
The Poseidon Adventure
1972
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as Reverend Scott
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Age: 42
Prime Cut
1972
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as Mary Ann
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Age: 42
The French Connection
1971
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as Jimmy Doyle
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Age: 41
Marooned
1969
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as Buzz Lloyd
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Age: 39
Downhill Racer
1969
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as Eugene Claire
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Age: 39
The Gypsy Moths
1969
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as Joe Browdy
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Age: 39
Riot
1969
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as Red Fraker
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Age: 38
The Sky Divers
1969
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as Self
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Age: 38
Hawaii
1966
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as John Whipple
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Age: 36
Lilith
1964
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as Norman
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Age: 34
Mad Dog Coll
1961
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as Cop (uncredited)
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Age: 31