
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).

'Little' Bill Daggett
Unforgiven

President Richmond
Absolute Power

Buck Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde

Jimmy Doyle
The French Connection

Reverend Scott
The Poseidon Adventure

Harry Caul
The Conversation

Agent Rupert Anderson
Mississippi Burning

Blindman
Young Frankenstein

Henry Hearst
Under Suspicion

Defense Secretary David Brice
No Way Out

Lex Luthor
Superman

Jimmy McGinty
The Replacements

"Popeye" Doyle
French Connection II

William B. Tensy
Heartbreakers

Senator Kevin Keeley
The Birdcage

Joe Moore
Heist

Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
A Bridge Too Far

Coach Norman Dale
Hoosiers

Dr. Lawrence Myrick
Extreme Measures

Lex Luthor
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Arnold Margolese
The Mexican

Rankin Fitch
Runaway Jury

Lowell Kolchek
Postcards from the Edge

Larry
Another Woman

Max Millan
Scarecrow

Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
Behind Enemy Lines

Robert Caulfield
Narrow Margin

Walter Lloyd
Target

Harry Zimm
Get Shorty

Sam Cayhall
The Chamber

Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
The Package

Lt. Walter Brill
The Split

Lex Luthor
Superman II

MacArthur Stern
Loose Cannons

Tucker
The Domino Principle

Harry Moseby
Night Moves

John Herod
The Quick and the Dead

Sam Boyd
Company Business

Nicholas Earp
Wyatt Earp

Major William Sherman Foster
March or Die

Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
Crimson Tide

General Mandible (voice)
Antz

Royal Tenenbaum
The Royal Tenenbaums

Jack Ames
Twilight

Eugene Claire
Downhill Racer

Sam Clayton
Bite the Bullet

Brill
Enemy of the State

Col. Cal Rhodes
Uncommon Valor

Alex Grazier
Under Fire

Mary Ann
Prime Cut

Buzz Lloyd
Marooned

Brig. Gen. George Crook
Geronimo: An American Legend

Floyd
Full Moon in Blue Water

John Whipple
Hawaii

Norman
Lilith

Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
Bat★21

Avery Tolar
The Firm

Jedediah Tucker Ward
Class Action

Jack McCann
Eureka

Brandt Ruger
The Hunting Party

Joe Browdy
The Gypsy Moths

Monroe Cole
Welcome to Mooseport

Wilfred Buckley
Power

Pete van Wherry
Reds

Ned Rawley
Misunderstood

Officer Leo Holland
Cisco Pike

Gene Garrison
I Never Sang for My Father

Dan McGuinn
Split Decisions

Red Fraker
Riot

Self
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

Kibby
Lucky Lady

Zandy Allen
Zandy's Bride

Narrator
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Harry MacKenzie
Twice in a Lifetime

George Dupler
All Night Long

Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

Self
Shurtleff on Acting

Dave Randolph
Doctors' Wives

Lex Luthor (archive footage)
De Superman à Spider-Man: L'aventure des super-héros

Harmsworth
A Covenant with Death

Self (archive footage)
Sports on the Silver Screen

Self - Host/Narrator
Heroes of Iwo Jima

Self (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

Self (archive footage)
Pattern Recognition

Self
The Sky Divers

Sergeant Tweed
First to Fight

Self
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Tommy Del Gaddo
Banning

Rev. Thomas Davis
Shadow on the Land

Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Narrator (voice)
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

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'

Cop (uncredited)
Mad Dog Coll

Self - Narrator (voice)
We, the Marines

Narrator (voice)
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

Self
Formula 1 - Febbre della velocità

Lex Luthor
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Reader (voice)
Earth and the American Dream

Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Self
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Blind Man (archive footage)
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

God (voice) (uncredited)
Two of a Kind

Self
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Self
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

Himself/Narrator
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe

Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Himself
On the Road with: Scarecrow

Self
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Self - Narrator
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

Self (Archival Footage)
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special

Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
118
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-01-30
Place of Birth
San Bernardino, California, USA
Also Known As
Eugene Allen Hackman