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Gene Hackman
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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 Awa…
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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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- 2026
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage)
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2025
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
The Playboy Murders
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Pattern Recognition
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
We, the Marines
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2016
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Movie Self - Narrator
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2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie Self
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2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie Self
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2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Movie Self
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2007
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
TV show Self
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2006
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie Lex Luthor
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2005
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2004
Welcome to Mooseport
Movie Monroe Cole
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2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Movie Narrator
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2003
Runaway Jury
Movie Rankin Fitch
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2002
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie Self
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2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie Self
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2002
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Movie Self
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2001
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Movie Lex Luthor (archive footage)
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2001
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Movie Self
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2001
Behind Enemy Lines
Movie Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
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2001
Heist
Movie Joe Moore
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2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
Movie Royal Tenenbaum
- 2001
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2001
Will Shuster's Zozobra™ de Santa Fe
Movie Himself/Narrator
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2001
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Movie Self - Host/Narrator
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2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Movie Self
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2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Movie Self
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2001
Heartbreakers
Movie William B. Tensy
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2001
The Mexican
Movie Margolese
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2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie Self
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2000
Under Suspicion
Movie Henry Hearst
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2000
The Replacements
Movie Jimmy McGinty
- 2000
