Gene Hackman

94, from San Bernardino, California, USA

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Biography

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.

Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include I Never Sang for My Father (1970); his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); No Way Out (1987); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); Wyatt Earp (1994); The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty (all 1995); Enemy of the State (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and his final film role before retirement, in Welcome to Mooseport (2004).

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Timeline

2019Aged 89

  • Poster for Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

    Self (archive Footage)

2017Aged 87

  • Poster for We, The Marines

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Pattern Recognition

    Self (Archival Footage)

2014Aged 84

  • Poster for And the Oscar Goes To...

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

    Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2013Aged 83

  • Poster for Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

    Self

2012Aged 82

  • Poster for Making The Royal Tenenbaums

    Self / Royal T.

2009Aged 79

  • Poster for I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

    Self

2006Aged 76

  • Poster for Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

    Lex Luthor

2005Aged 75

  • Poster for Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Narrator (voice)

2004Aged 74

  • Poster for Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

    Narrator

  • Poster for Welcome to Mooseport

    Monroe Cole

2003Aged 73

  • Poster for Runaway Jury

    Rankin Fitch

2002Aged 72

  • Poster for Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

    Self

  • Poster for All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

    Self

  • Poster for Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

    Self

2001Aged 71

  • Poster for Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

    Self

  • Poster for The Mexican

    Arnold Margolese

  • Poster for Heartbreakers

    William B. Tensy

  • Poster for Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

    Self

  • Poster for Heroes of Iwo Jima

    Self - Host/Narrator

  • Poster for Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'The French Connection'

    Self

  • Poster for The Royal Tenenbaums

    Royal Tenenbaum

  • Poster for Heist

    Joe Moore

  • Poster for Behind Enemy Lines

    Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group

  • Poster for With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson

    Self

  • Poster for Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

    Lex Luthor (archive footage)

2000Aged 70

  • Poster for The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

    Self

  • Poster for The Replacements

    Jimmy McGinty

  • Poster for Under Suspicion

    Henry Hearst

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    Self

1998Aged 68

  • Poster for Twilight

    Jack Ames

  • Poster for Antz

    General Mandible (voice)

  • Poster for Enemy of the State

    Brill

1997Aged 67

1996Aged 66

  • Poster for Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein

    Blind Man (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Birdcage

    Senator Kevin Keeley

  • Poster for Extreme Measures

    Dr. Lawrence Myrick

  • Poster for The Chamber

    Sam Cayhall

1995Aged 65

  • Poster for The Quick and the Dead

    John Herod

  • Poster for Crimson Tide

    Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey

  • Poster for Get Shorty

    Harry Zimm

1994Aged 64

  • Poster for Wyatt Earp

    Nicholas Earp

  • Poster for Shurtleff on Acting

    Self

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

    Self

1993Aged 63

  • Poster for The Firm

    Avery Tolar

  • Poster for Geronimo: An American Legend

    Brig. Gen. George Crook

1992Aged 62

  • Poster for Unforgiven

    'Little' Bill Daggett

  • Poster for Earth and the American Dream

    Reader (voice)

1991Aged 61

  • Poster for Class Action

    Jedediah Tucker Ward

  • Poster for Company Business

    Sam Boyd

1990Aged 60

  • Poster for Loose Cannons

    MacArthur Stern

  • Poster for Postcards from the Edge

    Lowell Kolchek

  • Poster for Narrow Margin

    Robert Caulfield

  • Poster for Miami Blues

    Thanks

1989Aged 59

  • Poster for The Package

    Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

1988Aged 58

  • Poster for Split Decisions

    Dan McGuinn

  • Poster for Bat★21

    Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

  • Poster for Another Woman

    Larry

  • Poster for Full Moon in Blue Water

    Floyd

  • Poster for Mississippi Burning

    Anderson

1987Aged 57

  • Poster for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

    Lex Luthor

  • Poster for No Way Out

    Defense Secretary David Brice

1986Aged 56

  • Poster for Power

    Wilfred Buckley

  • Poster for Hoosiers

    Coach Norman Dale

1985Aged 55

  • Poster for Night of 100 Stars II

    Self

  • Poster for Twice in a Lifetime

    Harry MacKenzie

  • Poster for Target

    Walter Lloyd

1984Aged 54

  • Poster for Misunderstood

    Ned Rawley

1983Aged 53

  • Poster for Eureka

    Jack McCann

  • Poster for Under Fire

    Alex Grazier

  • Poster for Two of a Kind

    God (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Uncommon Valor

    Col. Cal Rhodes

1982Aged 52

  • Poster for The Making of 'Superman II'

    Self

1981Aged 51

  • Poster for All Night Long

    George Dupler

  • Poster for Reds

    Pete van Wherry

1980Aged 50

  • Poster for The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

    Self

  • Poster for Superman II

    Lex Luthor

1978Aged 48

  • Poster for Formula 1 - Speed fever

    Self

  • Poster for Superman

    Lex Luthor

1977Aged 47

  • Poster for The Domino Principle

    Tucker

  • Poster for A Bridge Too Far

    Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski

  • Poster for March or Die

    Major William Sherman Foster

1975Aged 45

  • Poster for Night Moves

    Harry Moseby

  • Poster for French Connection II

    "Popeye" Doyle

  • Poster for Bite the Bullet

    Sam Clayton

  • Poster for Lucky Lady

    Kibby

1974Aged 44

  • Poster for The Conversation

    Harry Caul

  • Poster for Zandy's Bride

    Zandy Allen

  • Poster for Young Frankenstein

    Blindman

1973Aged 43

  • Poster for Scarecrow

    Max Millan

1972Aged 42

  • Poster for Cisco Pike

    Officer Leo Holland

  • Poster for Prime Cut

    Mary Ann

  • Poster for The Poseidon Adventure

    Reverend Scott

1971Aged 41

  • Poster for Doctors' Wives

    Dave Randolph

  • Poster for The Hunting Party

    Brandt Ruger

  • Poster for The French Connection

    Jimmy Doyle

1970Aged 40

  • Poster for I Never Sang for My Father

    Gene Garrison

1969Aged 39

1968Aged 38

  • Poster for The Split

    Lt. Walter Brill

  • Poster for Shadow on the Land

    Rev. Thomas Davis

1967Aged 37

  • Poster for First to Fight

    Sergeant Tweed

  • Poster for A Covenant with Death

    Harmsworth

  • Poster for Community Shelter Planning

    Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer

  • Poster for Bonnie and Clyde

    Buck Barrow

  • Poster for Banning

    Tommy Del Gaddo

1966Aged 36

  • Poster for Hawaii

    John Whipple

1964Aged 34

  • Poster for Lilith

    Norman

1961Aged 31

  • Poster for Mad Dog Coll

    Cop (uncredited)