Actor

Gene Hackman

1961–present1930–2025DramaDocumentaryActionThriller

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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Known For

119 acting credits

as 'Little' Bill Daggett

Unforgiven

as 'Little' Bill Daggett

1992

Unforgiven

as Blindman

Young Frankenstein

as Blindman

1974

Young Frankenstein

Filmography

2025The Last Days of Gene Hackman: ABC News SpecialSelf (archive footage)6.5 2025Breakdown: 1975(archive footage)6.8 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood LegendSelf (archive footage)5.0 2019Sacheen: Breaking the SilenceSelf (archive footage)2017Pattern RecognitionSelf (archive footage)2017We, the MarinesSelf - Narrator (voice)

About

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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