
Gene Hackman
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).
Movies

Uncommon Valor
1983
as Col. Cal Rhodes

Night Moves
1975
as Harry Moseby

The Package
1989
as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

The Poseidon Adventure
1972
as Reverend Scott

The Conversation
1974
as Harry Caul

The French Connection
1971
as Jimmy Doyle

Mississippi Burning
1988
as Agent Rupert Anderson

Hoosiers
1986
as Coach Norman Dale

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Royal Tenenbaum

Enemy of the State
1998
as Brill

The Quick and the Dead
1995
as Herod

Runaway Jury
2003
as Rankin Fitch

The Birdcage
1996
as Senator Kevin Keeley

No Way Out
1987
as Defense Secretary David Brice

The Chamber
1996
as Sam Cayhall

The Replacements
2000
as Jimmy McGinty

Unforgiven
1992
as 'Little' Bill Daggett

Crimson Tide
1995
as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey

Get Shorty
1995
as Harry Zimm

Behind Enemy Lines
2001
as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

Absolute Power
1997
as President Richmond

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Lex Luthor

Wyatt Earp
1994
as Nicholas Earp

The Firm
1993
as Avery Tolar

Superman
1978
as Lex Luthor

Heartbreakers
2001
as William B. Tensy

Bonnie and Clyde
1967
as Buck Barrow

Antz
1998
as General Mandible (voice)

Superman II
1980
as Lex Luthor

The Mexican
2001
as Arnold Margolese

A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski