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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman

Highest Rated: 100% Cisco Pike (1971)

Lowest Rated: 0% Loose Cannons (1990)

Birthday: Jan 30, 1930

Birthplace: San Bernardino, California, USA

One of the most versatile and well-respected actors in American cinema history, Gene Hackman enjoyed a productive career that spanned over six decades, encompassing exquisite performances on stage and in feature films. Once voted by his acting school classmates as the least likely to succeed, Hackman essayed some of filmdom's most memorable characters, a few of which earned the gruff, but sensitive actor several Academy Award nominations. Beginning as a reliable character player on stage, Hackman emerged as an unlikely hero of the counterculture with a bombastic turn in Arthur Penn's seminal "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). Just a few years later, he secured himself an Oscar for Best Actor with his tough-guy performance as the unforgettable Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection" (1971). Hackman again delivered the goods in Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller, "The Conversation" (1974) and followed through as the comically maniacal Lex Luther in "Superman: The Movie" (1978). Though he entered a premature retirement brought on by his exhaustive work schedule, Hackman returned to the fore in Warren Beatty's "Reds" (1981) and entered into what proved to be the busiest part of his career, which culminated in an Academy Award nomination for "Mississippi Burning" (1988) and a Best Supporting Actor win for "Unforgiven" (1992). After portraying a sleazy B-movie producer in "Get Shorty" (1995) and the rascally patriarch of a dysfunctional family in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001), Hackman drifted off into an unofficial retirement that allowed him time to nurture his writing career while leaving behind a remarkable legacy.

Highest rated movies

100% 64% Cisco Pike
100% 83% I Never Sang for My Father
96% 93% Unforgiven 96% 87% The French Connection 95% 92% Young Frankenstein
94% 86% Superman: The Movie
93% 89% The Conversation 92% 72% No Way Out

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 14% We, the Marines Narrator - 2017
83% 85% I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 86% Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Lex Luthor (Character) - 2006
13% 19% Welcome to Mooseport Monroe Cole (Character) $14.5M 2004
88% 83% Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust Unknown (Character) - 2004
73% 75% Runaway Jury Rankin Fitch (Character) $49.4M 2003
81% 89% The Royal Tenenbaums Royal Tenenbaum (Character) $52.4M 2001
37% 62% Behind Enemy Lines Reigart (Character) $58.9M 2001
67% 59% Heist Joe Moore (Character) $23.5M 2001
54% 51% Heartbreakers William B. Tensy (Character) $40.3M 2001
54% 44% The Mexican Arnold Margolese (Character) $66.8M 2001
49% 48% Under Suspicion Henry Hearst (Character),
Executive Producer
$334.2K 2000
41% 66% The Replacements McGinty (Character) $44.7M 2000
No Score Yet 79% Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows Unknown (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hitchcock, Selznick & the End of Hollywood Narrator - 1999
71% 78% Enemy of the State Edward 'Brill' Lyle (Character) $111.5M 1998
92% 52% Antz General Mandible (Voice) $90.7M 1998
61% 31% Twilight Jack Ames (Character) $15.0M 1998
56% 52% Absolute Power President Allen Richmond (Character) $50.0M 1997
56% 41% Extreme Measures Dr. Lawrence Myrick (Character) $17.4M 1996
12% 39% The Chamber Sam Cayhall (Character) $14.4M 1996
84% 81% The Birdcage Sen. Kevin Keeley (Character) $124.0M 1996
89% 84% Crimson Tide Capt. Frank Ramsey (Character) $91.4M 1995
58% 54% The Quick and the Dead John Herod (Character) $17.3M 1995
89% 70% Get Shorty Harry Zimm (Character) $68.8M 1995
31% 61% Wyatt Earp Nicholas Earp (Character) $24.6M 1994
50% 52% Geronimo: An American Legend Brig. Gen. George Crook (Character) $18.4M 1993
76% 64% The Firm Avery Tolar (Character) $157.0M 1993
96% 93% Unforgiven Little Bill Daggett (Character) $100.0M 1992
77% 51% Class Action Jedediah Tucker Ward (Character) $23.9M 1991
No Score Yet 32% Company Business Sam Boyd (Character) $1.4M 1991
0% 27% Loose Cannons MacArthur Stern (Character) $4.5M 1990
83% 67% Postcards From the Edge Lowell Kolchek (Character) $36.9M 1990
63% 51% Narrow Margin Robert Caulfield (Character) $10.1M 1990
68% 44% The Package Sgt. Johnny Gallagher (Character) $9.3M 1989
No Score Yet 22% Split Decisions Dan McGuinn (Character) $423.3K 1988
82% 58% Bat 21 Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton (Character) $3.2M 1988
79% 90% Mississippi Burning Agent Rupert Anderson (Character) $33.7M 1988
59% 75% Another Woman Larry Lewis (Character) $499.5K 1988
27% 25% Full Moon in Blue Water Floyd (Character) $254.5K 1988
10% 16% Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Lex Luthor/Voice of Nuclear Man (Character) $14.9M 1987
92% 72% No Way Out Defense Secretary David Brice (Character) $31.7M 1987
50% 44% Power Wilfred Buckley (Character) $3.1M 1986
91% 88% Hoosiers Coach Norman Dale (Character) $25.8M 1986
83% 53% Twice in a Lifetime Harry MacKenzie (Character) $8.4M 1985
63% 36% Target Walter Lloyd / Duncan (Duke) Potter (Character) $9.0M 1985
No Score Yet 90% Misunderstood Ned Rawley (Character) - 1984
91% 70% Under Fire Alex Grazier (Character) - 1983
40% 50% Eureka Jack McCann (Character) - 1983
60% 62% Uncommon Valor Col. Rhodes (Character) - 1983
33% 22% All Night Long George Dupler (Character) - 1981
83% 76% Superman II Lex Luthor (Character) - 1980
94% 86% Superman: The Movie Lex Luthor (Character) - 1978
14% 19% The Domino Principle Roy Tucker (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 47% March or Die Maj. William Sherman Foster (Character) - 1977
59% 85% A Bridge Too Far Major General Sosabowski (Character) - 1977
30% 33% Lucky Lady Kibby Womack (Character) - 1975
84% 71% Night Moves Harry Moseby (Character) - 1975
82% 62% French Connection II Doyle (Character) - 1975
73% 54% Bite the Bullet Sam Clayton (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Movimientos Nocturnos Unknown (Character) - 1975
93% 89% The Conversation Harry Caul (Character) $143.4K 1974
95% 92% Young Frankenstein The Blindman (Harold) (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 58% Zandy's Bride Zandy Allan (Character) - 1974
76% 79% Scarecrow Max Millan (Character) - 1973
80% 76% The Poseidon Adventure Rev. Frank Scott (Character) - 1972
71% 72% Prime Cut Mary Ann (Character) - 1972
20% 54% The Hunting Party Brandt Ruger (Character) - 1971
20% No Score Yet Doctors' Wives Dr. Dave Randolph (Character) - 1971
100% 64% Cisco Pike Officer Leo Holland (Character) - 1971
96% 87% The French Connection Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Character) - 1971
100% 83% I Never Sang for My Father Gene Garrison (Character) - 1970
86% 45% Marooned Buzz Lloyd (Character) - 1969
85% 58% Downhill Racer Eugene Claire (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 42% The Gypsy Moths Joe Browdy (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 21% Riot Red Fraker (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 30% The Split Detective Lt. Walter Brill (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadow on the Land Rev. Thomas Davis (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 0% First to Fight Sgt. Tweed (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 67% A Covenant With Death Harmsworth (Character) - 1967
90% 88% Bonnie and Clyde Buck Barrow (Character) - 1967
70% 54% Hawaii Dr. John Whipple (Character) - 1966
86% 63% Lilith Norman (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Speed Fever Self -

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Guest 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horse Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Invaders Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Trials of O'Brien Roger Nathan (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Motorist (Guest Star) 1963