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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).
As actor
The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News Special
Breakdown: 1975
Remembering Gene Wilder
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Pattern Recognition
We, the Marines
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
Welcome to Mooseport
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Runaway Jury
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Heartbreakers
Heist
The Mexican
Behind Enemy Lines
The Royal Tenenbaums
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Heroes of Iwo Jima
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'