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Birthdate: January 30, 1930
Gene Hackman
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
2.3256
11
1970s
3.0085
21
1980s
2.5717
19
1990s
2.9890
19
2000s
2.9524
12
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.5679
3.5679
Gene Hackman Movie Rankings
1
3.7628An alien child is sent to Earth from his dying home planet to help preserve his people. When Clark discovers he has super powers he vows to use his abilities to stop evil and destruction. When Clark meets Lex Luther it seems he may have met his match. ...more about Superman
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $5.99
(18 sellers)
2
3.7459Two NYC narcotics cops are trying to trace a heroin connection from France to the U.S. On a tip, they start surveying a local store and find the owners are living well beyond their means. The two start working their way up the drug ladder to find the Kingpin. ...more about French Connection
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $9.27
(15 sellers)
3
3.5260When a local prostitute is mutated, the law seems to turn a blind eye. Dissatisfied with how the sheriff handled the case the town prostitutes ban together and place a bounty on the head of two cowboys, attracting old sharp shooters and young guns hoping to collect. ...more about Unforgiven
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $5.20
(16 sellers)
4
3.5006
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired to tail a young couple. As he listens to their conversations, he becomes worried what will happen to the couple once the man who hired him hears the tapes. Soon someone begins surveillance on him, turning the tables. ...more about Conversation
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $3.90
(13 sellers)
5
3.2982
A small-time bank robber and a small country girl team up to become two of the most notorious bank robbers of all time. ...more about Bonnie and Clyde
Actor Awards
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $7.99
(8 sellers)
6
3.2497
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein denounces his relationship to his famous grandfather, but he is lured by his grandfather's journal to the old castle where he performed his most famous experiments. Soon Dr. Frankenstein becomes obsessed and tries to finish what his grandfather started. ...more about Young Frankenstein
DVD from $6.86
(17 sellers)
7
3.2084
Writing has been the only escape of Louise Bryant until she goes to a lecture one night in 1912 and is mesmerized by a radical journalist, John Reed. ...more about Reds
DVD from $8.97
(13 sellers)
8
3.1538
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory. ...more about Hoosiers
DVD from $5.99
(17 sellers)
9
3.1311
When Superman saves Paris by throwing a nuclear bomb into outer space, he awakens three exiled criminals originally from Krypton. They descend to Earth with plans to take over the world. It's up to Superman to stop the criminals and save the world. ...more about Superman II
DVD from $5.99
(16 sellers)
10
3.0650
Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). ...more about Get Shorty
Actor Awards
- American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
DVD from $4.86
(15 sellers)
11
3.0641
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family. ...more about Royal Tenenbaums
Actor Awards
- AFI Awards, USA - AFI Featured Actor of the Year - Male - Movies
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $12.34
(11 sellers)
12
3.0343
Instability in Russia results in the deployment of the the nuclear submarine "Alabama". Russian rebels have taken over a nuclear missile site and are refueling them for a possible strike against the USA. ...more about Crimson Tide
DVD from $7.35
(13 sellers)
13
3.0252
This WWII film follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault. ...more about Bridge Too Far
DVD from $6.62
(12 sellers)
14
3.0164
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. ...more about Poseidon Adventure
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $12.79
(8 sellers)
15
3.0141
Z, a worker-ant dissatisfied with his position in the colony pines for Princess Bala. Z switches places with his best friend, a solider ant, for a parade and unknowingly marches into battle. The soul survivor Z is regarded as a hero, and spreads the idea of individualism through the colony. ...more about Antz
DVD from $8.11
(12 sellers)
16
2.9484
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. ...more about Hawaii
DVD from $6.37
(11 sellers)
17
2.9212
A successful lawyer finds himself the target of a treacherous NSA official and his goons after receiving evidence to a politically motivated murder, the only man that can help him is a former government operative turned surveillance expert. ...more about Enemy of the State
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Action/Adventure
DVD from $7.02
(13 sellers)
18
2.9205
A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves. ...more about Prime Cut
DVD from $4.94
(11 sellers)
19
2.9159
A smart, complex ensemble about a masterfully-minded gold robbery. ...more about Heist
DVD from $4.50
(11 sellers)
20
2.8920
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. ...more about Runaway Jury
DVD from $2.75
(15 sellers)
21
2.8908
Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. ...more about Scarecrow
DVD from $7.91
(10 sellers)
22
2.8679
Mike Nichols remakes "La Cage Aux Folles." The comedy features a flamboyant gay couple (Williams and Lane) who attempt to "play it straight" for their son's prospective in-laws. ...more about Birdcage
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
DVD from $5.49
(13 sellers)
23
2.8341
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...more about Night Moves
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $12.71
(10 sellers)
24
2.8334
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. ...more about Mississippi Burning
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $6.45
(11 sellers)
25
2.8205
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. ...more about Marooned
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
26
2.7841
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. ...more about Bite the Bullet
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
27
2.7813
Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called "The Mexican" or he will suffer the consequences. ...more about Mexican
DVD from $6.33
(12 sellers)
28
2.7540
Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. ...more about Extreme Measures
DVD from $4.60
(10 sellers)
29
2.7443
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. ...more about Firm
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
30
2.7326
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. ...more about Another Woman
DVD from $4.12
(13 sellers)
31
2.7071
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. ...more about Absolute Power
DVD from $3.59
(14 sellers)
32
2.7032
A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. ...more about Twilight
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
33
2.6722
A tough as nails female gunslinger arrives in town to participate in a quick-draw contest; however, her ulterior motive is to avenge her father who was killed by the town's corrupt mayor. ...more about Quick and the Dead
DVD from $3.92
(13 sellers)
34
2.6664
Max (Weaver) and Page (Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim. ...more about Heartbreakers
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
35
2.6594
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. ...more about Postcards from the Edge
DVD from $3.92
(11 sellers)
36
2.6289
Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for something more than the boring recon missions he's been flying. He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-torn Bosnia. ...more about Behind Enemy Lines
DVD from $3.48
(14 sellers)
37
2.6181
Cisko is an ex-rockstar who has become a drug addict. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends. ...more about Cisco Pike
DVD from $3.95
(8 sellers)
38
2.5336
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. ...more about Chamber
DVD from $3.99
(15 sellers)
39
2.5149
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ...more about I Never Sang for My Father
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Not Available on DVD
40
2.4985
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. ...more about Under Suspicion
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
41
2.4709
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB. ...more about Replacements
DVD from $3.59
(12 sellers)
43
2.4374
Jeb Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. ...more about Class Action
DVD from $4.11
(14 sellers)
44
2.3658
Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. More of a documentary than Hollywood tinsel, this movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's greatest heros. ...more about Wyatt Earp
DVD from $2.87
(13 sellers)
45
2.2838
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers, and one in particular - Geronimo, is restless. ...more about Geronimo: An American Legend
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
46
2.2443
After his term comes to an end, the former president (Hackman) retires to a small New England town. ...more about Welcome to Mooseport
DVD from $2.99
(14 sellers)
47
2.2203
Lex Luther steals a hair of Superman's head from a museum and uses it to create Nuclear Man, an android that gets energy from the Sun. ...more about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
DVD from $5.49
(16 sellers)
48
2.1414
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. ...more about Under Fire
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
49
2.1174
New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader. ...more about French Connection II
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $12.63
(11 sellers)
50
2.1127
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. ...more about All Night Long
DVD from $4.91
(10 sellers)
51
2.0703
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Years later, in 1945, he lives in luxury on a Caribbean island that he owns. ...more about Eureka
DVD from $11.53
(9 sellers)
52
2.0316
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. ...more about Lilith
DVD from $10.23
(8 sellers)
53
1.9679
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defence David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. ...more about No Way Out
DVD from $6.59
(8 sellers)
54
1.9509
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. ...more about Twice in a Lifetime
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
55
1.9468
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. ...more about Power
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
57
1.8368
On a 4th of July weekend, three barnstorming skydivers arrive to perform in a small Kansas town. They are hosted by the youngest member Webson's (Wilson) aunt, the unhappily married Elizabeth (Kerr). ...more about Gypsy Moths
DVD from $3.49
(10 sellers)
58
1.8096
During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a V.C. missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, an expert in missile weaponry. ...more about Bat*21
DVD from $6.99
(10 sellers)
59
1.7639
Chris Lloyd does NOT get along with his father Walter. Walter is too careful, cautious, and boring to Chris, and never tries anything new, and Chris had to live by the same standards when he was growing up. ...more about Target
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
60
1.7181
Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money. ...more about Split
- Not Available on DVD
61
1.7062
Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. ...more about March or Die
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
62
1.6788
A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She immediately goes into hiding without informing the authorities. ...more about Narrow Margin
DVD from $4.59
(13 sellers)
63
1.6589
Gene Hackman, A sergeant is sent with a prisoner from Germany. The prisoner escapes in the men's room at National Airport and Hackman begins his search for his man. ...more about Package
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
65
1.4817
Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd is called back by "the Company" to do some work. Namely a hostage trade of jailed Soviet spy Pyiotr Grushenko for an American agent the Soviets had taken. ...more about Company Business
DVD from $6.80
(8 sellers)
66
1.4665
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. ...more about Domino Principle
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
67
1.3309
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. ...more about Uncommon Valor
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
68
1.2565
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love. ...more about Zandy's Bride
- Not Available on DVD
69
1.1926
The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder - just to teach him reading, so he tells her. ...more about Hunting Party
DVD from $6.99
(12 sellers)
70
0.9999
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. ...more about Full Moon in Blue Water
DVD from $7.59
(8 sellers)
72
0.5319
Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. ...more about Loose Cannons
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
73
Wagner plays a playboy golf pro down on his luck. Kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating he is forced to hustle for a living. ...more about Banning
- Not Available on DVD
74
Wednesday, May 10th 2000. Dozens of stars, hundreds of journalists and thousands of fans have come together in the south of France. Amongst them is Markus. He is an autograph collector who has come here to get signatures from the famous. ...more about Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter
- Not Available on DVD
75
Documentary tells the story of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery Regiments, who achieved ethnic diversity, fought with great distinction in the Phillipines, endured the Bataan Death March and became two of the most decorated military units in World War ...more about Colors of Courage: Sons of New Mexico
- Not Available on DVD
78
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. ...more about First to Fight
- Not Available on DVD
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