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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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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).
Known For
Tony Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The F.B.I.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Route 66
Entertainment Tonight
CBS Playhouse
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Insight
The Trials of O'Brien
The Defenders
The DuPont Show of the Week
The Hollywood Greats
Two of a Kind
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Reds
Earth and the American Dream
Young Frankenstein
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Superman II
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
The Oscars
Bonnie and Clyde
Heartbreakers
Wyatt Earp
Superman
Power
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Firm
Twilight
The Birdcage
Crimson Tide
Behind Enemy Lines
Riot
The Replacements
Runaway Jury
No Way Out
The Quick and the Dead
Unforgiven
How Fast?
Get Shorty
Downhill Racer
Under Suspicion
Mississippi Burning
The French Connection
Target
Uncommon Valor
We, the Marines
The Conversation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Production Credits
Under Suspicion
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