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).
Unforgiven
'Little' Bill Daggett
Absolute Power
President Richmond
Bonnie and Clyde
Buck Barrow
The French Connection
Jimmy Doyle
The Poseidon Adventure
Reverend Scott
The Conversation
Harry Caul
Mississippi Burning
Agent Rupert Anderson
Young Frankenstein
Blindman
Under Suspicion
Henry Hearst
No Way Out
Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman
Lex Luthor
The Replacements
Jimmy McGinty
French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle
Heartbreakers
William B. Tensy
The Birdcage
Senator Kevin Keeley
Heist
Joe Moore
A Bridge Too Far
Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Hoosiers
Coach Norman Dale
Extreme Measures
Dr. Lawrence Myrick
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Lex Luthor
The Mexican
Arnold Margolese
Runaway Jury
Rankin Fitch
Postcards from the Edge
Lowell Kolchek
Another Woman
Larry
Scarecrow
Max Millan
Behind Enemy Lines
Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Target
Walter Lloyd
Narrow Margin
Robert Caulfield
The Chamber
Sam Cayhall
Get Shorty
Harry Zimm
The Package
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
The Split
Lt. Walter Brill
Superman II
Lex Luthor
Loose Cannons
MacArthur Stern
The Domino Principle
Tucker
Night Moves
Harry Moseby
The Quick and the Dead
John Herod
Company Business
Sam Boyd
Wyatt Earp
Nicholas Earp
Crimson Tide
Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
March or Die
Major William Sherman Foster
Antz
General Mandible (voice)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Royal Tenenbaum
Twilight
Jack Ames
Downhill Racer
Eugene Claire
Bite the Bullet
Sam Clayton
Enemy of the State
Brill
Uncommon Valor
Col. Cal Rhodes
Under Fire
Alex Grazier
Prime Cut
Mary Ann
Marooned
Buzz Lloyd
Geronimo: An American Legend
Brig. Gen. George Crook
Full Moon in Blue Water
Floyd
Hawaii
John Whipple
Lilith
Norman
Bat★21
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
The Firm
Avery Tolar
Class Action
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Eureka
Jack McCann
The Hunting Party
Brandt Ruger
The Gypsy Moths
Joe Browdy
Welcome to Mooseport
Monroe Cole
Power
Wilfred Buckley
Reds
Pete van Wherry
Misunderstood
Ned Rawley
Cisco Pike
Officer Leo Holland
I Never Sang for My Father
Gene Garrison
Split Decisions
Dan McGuinn
Riot
Red Fraker
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Self
Lucky Lady
Kibby
Zandy's Bride
Zandy Allen
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Narrator
Twice in a Lifetime
Harry MacKenzie
All Night Long
George Dupler
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
Shurtleff on Acting
Self
Doctors' Wives
Dave Randolph
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Lex Luthor (archive footage)
A Covenant with Death
Harmsworth
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Self - Host/Narrator
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition
Self (archive footage)
The Sky Divers
Self
First to Fight
Sergeant Tweed
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
Banning
Tommy Del Gaddo
Shadow on the Land
Rev. Thomas Davis
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Self
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
The Making of 'Superman II'
Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Mad Dog Coll
Cop (uncredited)
We, the Marines
Self - Narrator (voice)
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Narrator (voice)
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Self
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Lex Luthor
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Self
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Blind Man (archive footage)
Two of a Kind
God (voice) (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Self
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Self
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Himself/Narrator
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Self
On the Road with: Scarecrow
Himself
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
Self
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Self - Narrator
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Self (Archival Footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdown: 1975
(archive footage)
Superman Redeemed
Lex Luthor
Making THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (with Wes Anderson & Robert Yeoman)
Self