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Gene Hackman
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Biography
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).
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Superman
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Crimson Tide
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Unforgiven
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The Firm
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The Conversation
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Enemy of the State
As Brill
The Royal Tenenbaums
As Royal Tenenbaum
Superman II
As Lex Luthor
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
Pure-Hearted Heroes
Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...
7 films
The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority
From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.
8 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
Eight films in which a character's consuming fixation drives the narrative, examined through the directorial techniques that externalise interiority: subjective...
8 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Runaway Jury
2003 · Rankin Fitch
Heist
2001 · Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Royal Tenenbaum
Heartbreakers
2001 · William B. Tensy
The Mexican
2001 · Arnold Margolese
Under Suspicion
2000 · Henry Hearst
Enemy of the State
1998 · Brill
Antz
1998 · General Mandible (voice)
The Birdcage
1996 · Senator Kevin Keeley
Get Shorty
1995 · Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide
1995 · Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Herod
The Firm
1993 · Avery Tolar
Unforgiven
1992 · 'Little' Bill Daggett
No Way Out
1987 · Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Lex Luthor
Hoosiers
1986 · Norman Dale
Superman II
1980 · Lex Luthor
Superman
1978 · Lex Luthor
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
Bite the Bullet
1975 · Sam Clayton
The Conversation
1974 · Harry Caul
The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Reverend Scott
The French Connection
1971 · Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
Banning
1967 · Tommy Del Gaddo
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Buck Barrow
Mad Dog Coll
1961 · Cop (uncredited)