Gene Hackman Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Gene Hackman filmography covers 78 movie titles and 6 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Gene Hackman movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Lilith (1964) as Norman
• Hawaii (1966) as John Whipple
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) as Buck Barrow
• The Split (1968) as Lt. Walter Brill
• Downhill Racer (1969) as Eugene Claire
• Marooned (1969) as Buzz Lloyd
• Riot (1969) as Red Fraker
• The Gypsy Moths (1969) as Joe Browdy
• I Never Sang for My Father (1970) as Gene Garrison
• The French Connection (1971) as Jimmy Doyle
• The Hunting Party (1971) as Brandt Ruger
• Cisco Pike (1972) as Officer Leo Holland
• Prime Cut (1972) as Mary Ann
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972) as Reverend Scott
• Scarecrow (1973) as Max Millan
• The Conversation (1974) as Harry Caul
• Young Frankenstein (1974) as Blindman
• Zandy's Bride (1974) as Zandy Allen
• Bite the Bullet (1975) as Sam Clayton
• French Connection II (1975) as "Popeye" Doyle
• Night Moves (1975) as Harry Moseby
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) as Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
• March or Die (1977) as Major William Sherman Foster
• The Domino Principle (1977) as Tucker
• Superman (1978) as Lex Luthor
• Superman II (1980) as Lex Luthor
• All Night Long (1981) as George Dupler
• Reds (1981) as Pete van Wherry
• Eureka (1983) as Jack McCann
• Two of a Kind (1983) as God (voice) (uncredited)
• Uncommon Valor (1983) as Col. Cal Rhodes
• Under Fire (1983) as Alex Grazier
• Target (1985) as Walter Lloyd
• Twice in a Lifetime (1985) as Harry MacKenzie
• Hoosiers (1986) as Norman Dale
• Power (1986) as Wilfred Buckley
• No Way Out (1987) as Defense Secretary David Brice
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Lex Luthor
• Another Woman (1988) as Larry
• Bat★21 (1988) as Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
• Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) as Floyd
• Mississippi Burning (1988) as Agent Rupert Anderson
• Split Decisions (1988) as Dan McGuinn
• The Package (1989) as Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
• Loose Cannons (1990) as MacArthur Stern
• Narrow Margin (1990) as Robert Caulfield
• Postcards from the Edge (1990) as Lowell Kolchek
• Class Action (1991) as Jedediah Tucker Ward
• Company Business (1991) as Sam Boyd
• Unforgiven (1992) as 'Little' Bill Daggett
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) as Brig. Gen. George Crook
• The Firm (1993) as Avery Tolar
• Wyatt Earp (1994) as Nicholas Earp
• Crimson Tide (1995) as Captain Franklin "Frank" Ramsey
• Get Shorty (1995) as Harry Zimm
• The Quick and the Dead (1995) as Herod
• Extreme Measures (1996) as Dr. Lawrence Myrick
• The Birdcage (1996) as Senator Kevin Keeley
• The Chamber (1996) as Sam Cayhall
• Absolute Power (1997) as President Richmond
• Antz (1998) as General Mandible (voice)
• Enemy of the State (1998) as Brill
• Twilight (1998) as Jack Ames
• The Replacements (2000) as Jimmy McGinty
• Under Suspicion (2000) as Henry Hearst
• Behind Enemy Lines (2001) as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
• Heartbreakers (2001) as William B. Tensy
• Heist (2001) as Joe Moore
• Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes (2001) as Lex Luthor (archive footage)
• The Mexican (2001) as Arnold Margolese
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) as Royal Tenenbaum
• Runaway Jury (2003) as Rankin Fitch
• Welcome to Mooseport (2004) as Monroe Cole
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) as Lex Luthor
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009) as Self
• Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013) as Self
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) as Lex Luthor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Breakdown: 1975 (2025) as (archive footage)

Gene Hackman television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Gene Hackman; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Masters as Self
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as Self
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
• The F.B.I. as Herb Kenyon
• The Invaders as Tom Jessup
• The Oscars as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Gene Hackman's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.