Gene Hackman

Acting

Born: 1930-01-30

Died: 2025-02-17

From: San Bernardino, California, USA

Gender: Male

Height: 1.88 m

Popularity: 2.9

Also Known As

Eugene Allen HackmanEugene AlderEugene Allen "Gene" Hackman

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).

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Awards & Nominations13 won · 5 nominated

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

2002

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Unforgiven

1993

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Unforgiven

1993

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Unforgiven

1993

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Unforgiven

1992

🏆 Won

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Mississippi Burning

1989

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

Mississippi Burning

1989

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

The French Connection

1973

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Actor

The French Connection

1972

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

The French Connection

1972

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

The French Connection

1971

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

I Never Sang for My Father

1971

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Bonnie and Clyde

1968

🏆 Won

Clarence Derwent Awards

🏆 Won

Good Conduct Medal

🏆 Won

National Defense Service Medal

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Gene Hackman

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations13 won · 5 nominated

Acting147 titles

Sports on the Silver Screen

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Tallahassee 7000

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

Hawk

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Unforgiven

Young Frankenstein

First to Fight

East Side/West Side

Mississippi Burning

Shadow on the Land

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

The Making of 'Superman II'

Inside the Actors Studio

The Playboy Murders

Bonnie and Clyde

The French Connection

The Conversation

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Superman

A Bridge Too Far

Crimson Tide

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Remembering Gene Wilder

Golden Globe Awards

The Poseidon Adventure

The Birdcage

Scarecrow

Enemy of the State

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Hoosiers

With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

On the Road with: Scarecrow

The DuPont Show of the Week

The Oscars

The Trials of O'Brien

American Masters

Dinah!

No Way Out

Runaway Jury

Reds

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

French Connection II

Another Woman

Superman II

Wyatt Earp

Breakdown: 1975

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

The Invaders

Absolute Power

The Replacements

The Split

Night Moves

Under Fire

The Firm

I Never Sang for My Father

Earth and the American Dream

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Route 66

Postcards from the Edge

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

The Merv Griffin Show