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