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Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- The United States Steel Hour (1959-62) 5 episodes
- Brenner (1959-64) 3 episodes
- Mad Dog Coll (1961)
- Tallahassee 7000 (1961) 1 episode
- The Defenders (1961-63) 2 episodes
- Look Up and Live (1963) 1 episode
- Naked City (1963) 1 episode
- Route 66 (1963) 1 episode
- The DuPont Show of the Week (1963) 1 episode
- Ride with Terror (1963)
- East Side/West Side (1963) 1 episode
- Lilith (1964)
- The Trials of O'Brien (1966) 1 episode
- Directions (1966) 1 episode
- Hawk (1966) 1 episode
- Hawaii (1966)
- The F.B.I. (1967) 1 episode
- First to Fight (1967)
- A Covenant with Death (1967)
- Community Shelter Planning (1967)
- Banning (1967)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- The Invaders (1967) 1 episode
- Iron Horse (1967) 1 episode
- CBS Playhouse (1968) 1 episode
- I Spy (1968) 1 episode
- Insight (1968) 1 episode
- The Split (1968)
- Shadow on the Land (1968)
- Riot (1969)
- The Gypsy Moths (1969)
- Downhill Racer (1969)
- Marooned (1969)
- I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
- Doctors' Wives (1971)
- The Hunting Party (1971)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Cisco Pike (1972)
- Prime Cut (1972)
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972) 2 episodes
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Scarecrow (1973)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Zandy's Bride (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Night Moves (1975)
- At Long Last Cole (1975)
- Bite the Bullet (1975)
- French Connection II (1975)
- Lucky Lady (1975)
- The Domino Killings (1977)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- March or Die (1977)
- Speed Fever (1978)
- A Look at Liv (1979)
- Superman (1978)
- Superman II (1980)
- All Night Long (1981)
- Reds (1981)
- Eureka (1983)
- Under Fire (1983)
- Two of a Kind (1983)
- Uncommon Valor (1983)
- Misunderstood (1984)
- Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
- Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
- Target (1985)
- Power (1986)
- Hoosiers (1986)
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
- No Way Out (1987)
- Bat*21 (1988)
- Another Woman (1988)
- Split Decisions (1988)
- Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
- Mississippi Burning (1988)
- The Package (1989)
- Loose Cannons (1990)
- Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Narrow Margin (1990)
- Class Action (1991)
- Company Business (1991)
- Clint Eastwood on Westerns (1992)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Earth and the American Dream (1992)
- The Firm (1993)
- Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
- Wyatt Earp (1994)
- 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994)
- Wyatt Earp: Walk with a Legend (1994)
- Shurtleff on Acting (1994)
- Biography (1994-02) 2 episodes
- The Quick and the Dead (1995)
- Crimson Tide (1995)
- Get Shorty (1995)
- The Birdcage (1996)
- Extreme Measures (1996)
- The Chamber (1996)
- Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
- Absolute Power (1997)
- Twilight (1998)
- Antz (1998)
- The Best of Hollywood (1998)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- American Masters (1998-00) 2 episodes
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999)
- Bravo Profiles (2000) 1 episode
- Backstory (2000) 1 episode
- Under Suspicion (2000)
- The Replacements (2000)
- The Mexican (2001)
- Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001)
- Inside the Actors Studio (2001) 1 episode
- Heartbreakers (2001)
- The Directors (2001) 1 episode
- Heist (2001)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
- Colors of Courage: Sons of New Mexico, Prisoners of Japan (2002)
- Page to Screen (2002) 1 episode
- Hidden City (2003)
- Runaway Jury (2003)
- Hollywood Greats (2004) 1 episode
- Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
- Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
- Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2008) 1 episode
- Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)
- AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (2008)
- The Role That Changed My Life (2010) 1 episode
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
- The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima (2016)
- We, the Marines (2017)
Trivia[]
- Was extremely interested in playing the role Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs to where he even optioned the rights with Orion Pictures. Hackman was not only the first choice to play the part, he was seriously considering directing it. However Hackman ultimately chose not to take part in the picture because he was worried about potential negative public perception as the infamous cannibal.
- Was one of creator Sherwood Schwartz's top picks to play family patriarch Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch but television executives were unwilling to risk anything on the then relatively unknown actor and refused to even let Schwartz interview Hackman to feel him out for the role.
- While at the Pasadena Playhouse, Hackman and a classmate were voted "Least Likely to Succeed". The classmate was Dustin Hoffman. The pair have been good friends ever since.
- Has stated that his performance in Scarecrow (1973) is his personal favorite.
- Turned down the lead roles in Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Says watching his own films makes him terribly nervous.
- In contrast with his on-screen image of tough guy and reactionary, in real life Hackman is said to be an extremely gentle, shy person who holds very progressive political views.
Quotes[]
- "I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press."
- "The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
- "Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors."
- "I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling."