Gene Hackman - # 341

Actor Gene Hackman & Wife Betsy Arakawa Found Dead In Santa Fe Home

 

He was number 341 on the list.

Actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed just after midnight Thursday local time that the couple had died, along with their dog.

A state from the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office read: “On February 26, 2025 at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park where Gene Hackman, 95 and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found deceased.

“Foul play is not suspected as a factor in those deaths at this time however exact cause of death has not been determined. This is an active and ongoing investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.”

Hackman and classical pianist Arakawa, 63, had been married since 1991.

The 95-year-old Hollywood legend won Oscars for The French Connection (1971) and Unforgiven (1992), and was Oscar-nominated for roles in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Mississippi Burning (1988).

Hackman was also celebrated for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II, with other credits including The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Scarecrow (1972), The Conversation (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Under Fire (1983), Power (1986), Loose Cannons (1990), The Firm (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Enemy of the State (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), and Runaway Jury (2003).

He had not been in the public eye for more than two decades having retired from acting after starring in Welcome to Mooseport in 2004.

Hackman is often hailed as Hollywood’s ultimate tough guy but the range of his 100 movie credits and his dislike of overtly violent roles and anti-gun stance paints a more complex picture of a man who went through hard times in his childhood and early adulthood before achieving fame.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California in 1930 and held dreams of becoming an actor from an early age.

He had an unstable, peripatetic childhood with his father walking out on the family when he was a 13 years old after they had fallen on hard times and been forced to move in with his maternal grandparents in Danville, Illinois.

In interviews, the actor would often recall the difficult memory of his father waving from the car as he drove away.

At the age of 16, Hackman lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Marine Corp and went on to serve as a field-radio operator, spending time in Japan and China.

He was discharged in 1951. He studied journalism and television production at the University of Illinois, but dropped out and then headed to New York, where he struggled to make ends meet with odd jobs.

Encouraged by his first wife Fay Maltese to pursue his acting dreams, the couple moved to California in the mid-1955s. There, he cut his acting teeth at the Pasadena Playhouse in California where he became friends with Dustin Hoffman.

Alongside stage work, he secured bit roles in the movie Mad Dog Coll as well as TV series such as Tallahassee 7000, Route 66 and Naked City.

He returned to New York, living with Hoffman and fellow Pasadena Playhouse friend Robert Duvall, with the trio dealing with hard times as they tried to make it in the theatre scene.

Hackman secured roles in Off-Broadway plays The Saintliness of Margery Kempe in 1959 and Come to the Palace of Sin in 1963, making it onto Broadway with Children From Their Games, followed by A Rainy Day in Newark.

His first break was a role in the successful 1964 show Any Wednesday which led to his first credited movie role in Lilith, with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty in the leading roles.

Beatty would later suggest Hackman for a role in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), for which he clinched his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting role.

“That was really when the bandwagon started,”  recalled Hackman on the BBC’s Terry Wogan show in 1986.

In that same interview, Hackman suggested it was ironic that he had come to be known for his tough guy roles, given his early career.

“I started in the theatre on Broadway, in seven Broadway plays, all of them comedies, light comedies, very light… they wouldn’t allow them these days. They would be something you’d see on television. My background was in improvisation and in comedy,” he said.

Hackman rose to prominence in the early 1970s after he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in I Never Sang For My Father as a recently widowed college professor dealing with his controlling, ageing father.

He was then catapulted to stardom for his Oscar-winning performance as tough-talking New York drug-busting detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s The French Connection in 1971.

Hackman did not like Doyle’s violent behavior or the racist tone of his language and considered quitting the production in the early days of the shoot.

“I’m not that kind of guy. He was a physical man. No second thoughts. No introspection. We had to go back and re-shoot the first two days of scenes because I hadn’t gotten into the character enough. I wasn’t physical enough,” Hackman told late American critic Roger Ebert just prior to winning the Oscar.

Throughout the 1970s, Hackman was one of Hollywood’s most prolific and popular actors.

Highlights of that period include the 1973 Cannes d’Or winning comedy-drama Scarecrow, in which he and Al Pacino play two drifters who travel from California to Pittsburgh with dreams of setting up a business.

He was back in Cannes the following year with Francis Ford Coppola‘s mystery thriller The Conversation, which also won the Palme d’Or. Hackman starred as a surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma when he believes he has stumbled on a murder through secret recordings he made as part of his work.

That same year, Hackman also put in a small cameo in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. The actor had heard about the comedy horror through tennis partner Gene Wilder, who co-wrote and stars as a descendant of Victor Frankenstein in the comic revisiting of the Mary Shelley classic.

Brooks said Hackman said had approached him saying he “was dying to do some comedy” He and Wilder cast Hackman as a bearded, lonely old hermit. The actor was so unrecognizable in the role that few spectators realized it was him until the end credits.

This decade also saw Hackman take top billing in the Superman and Superman II movies, produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind, as supervillain Lex Luthor, a role he would reprise in the 1987 sequel  Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

Talking to Wogan ahead of the release of the third instalment, Hackman said he loved the role of Lex Luthor.

“It’s great fun. It’s like a licence to steal. Almost anything you do is going to be okay because he’s a kind of a flamboyant character and deranged and all the things that actors love to play,” he said. “It’s the best part in the movie… I wouldn’t play Superman for anything.”

Hackman was even more prolific in the 1980s, appearing alongside Barbra Streisand in All Night Long (1981) and supporting Warren Beatty in Reds (1981), Eureka (1983), Uncommon Valor (1983), Misunderstood (1984).

He won popular praise for his role as a high school basketball coach in Hoosiers (1986) and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Mississippi Burning (1988), in which he co-starred alongside Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in a small Mississippi town.

He was feted with the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival in 1989 for his performance in the thriller.

The 1990s was an equally fertile period, with the actor winning his second Oscar for his supporting performance as evil sheriff Little Bill  Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western Unforgiven.

Hackman had been reluctant to board the movie starring Eastwood as a reformed gunfighter who takes on one last job, due to the violence in the story, even though he liked the script. 

“I swore I would never be involved in a picture with this much violence in it. But the more I read it, the more I came to understand the purpose of the film, the more fascinated I became,” he said in an interview included as bonus content on the DVD release.

That decade also saw Hackman co-star opposite Tom Cruise in law world drama The Firm, adapted from John Grisham’s eponymous novel. Hackman would star in a further two adaptations of Grisham novels, The Chamber (1996) and Runaway Jury (2003).

Other career highlights of the 1990s included Crimson Tide (1995), Extreme Measures (1996), Absolute Power (1997) with Clint Eastwood, Twilight (1998) with Paul Newman, and Enemy of the State (1998) with Will Smith.

Hackman’s final active years as an actor included Under Suspicion (2000) with Morgan Freeman, Heartbreakers alongside Sigourney Weaver and Heist, in which he played an ageing leader of a ring of thieves, attempting to pull off one last big job ahead of retirement.

The star was celebrated right up until the end of his active career, achieving awards glory with Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as the head of the eccentric family.

His penultimate feature credit Runaway Jury, reunited him with old friend Hoffman, with the actor retiring after appearing in the political satire Welcome to Mooseport opposite Ray Romano.

Advised by his doctor to retire for health reason, Hackman lived a private life in Santa Fe with his wife, citing his activities as painting, fishing and writing, even taking co-writer credits on adventure novels ‘Justice For None’ and ‘Wake of Perdido Star’, with friend and underwater researcher Daniel Lenihan.

Hackman is survived by three children, Christopher, Elizabeth Jean and Leslie Anne, with late ex-wife, Maltese.

Actor

Gene Hackman and Ray Romano in Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

Welcome to Mooseport

5.3

Monroe Cole

2004

 

John Cusack, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, and Rachel Weisz in Runaway Jury (2003)

Runaway Jury

7.1

Rankin Fitch

2003

 

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

Behind Enemy Lines

6.4

Reigart

2001

 

Bill Murray, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Jonah Meyerson, and Grant Rosenmeyer in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

The Royal Tenenbaums

7.6

Royal Tenenbaum

2001

 

Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, and Rebecca Pidgeon in Heist (2001)

Heist

6.5

Joe Moore

2001

 

Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman, and Jennifer Love Hewitt in Heartbreakers (2001)

Heartbreakers

6.3

William B. Tensy

2001

 

Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts in The Mexican (2001)

The Mexican

6.1

Arnold Margolese

2001

 

Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, and Brooke Langton in The Replacements (2000)

The Replacements

6.6

Jimmy McGinty

2000

 

Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Monica Bellucci in Under Suspicion (2000)

Under Suspicion

6.4

Henry Hearst

2000

 

Will Smith and Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State (1998)

Enemy of the State

7.3

Brill

1998

 

Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone, and Sharon Stone in Antz (1998)

Antz

6.5

Mandible (voice)

1998

 

Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, and Gene Hackman in Twilight (1998)

Twilight

6.2

Jack Ames

1998

 

Clint Eastwood and Melora Hardin in Absolute Power (1997)

Absolute Power

6.7

President Richmond

1997

 

Gene Hackman and Chris O'Donnell in The Chamber (1996)

The Chamber

6.0

Sam Cayhall

1996

 

Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman in Extreme Measures (1996)

Extreme Measures

6.2

Dr. Lawrence Myrick

1996

 

Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest in The Birdcage (1996)

The Birdcage

7.2

Senator Keeley

1996

 

John Travolta, Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman, and Rene Russo in Get Shorty (1995)

Get Shorty

6.9

Harry Zimm

1995

 

Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide (1995)

Crimson Tide

7.4

Ramsey

1995

 

Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman in The Quick and the Dead (1995)

The Quick and the Dead

6.5

Herod

1995

 

Kevin Costner in Wyatt Earp (1994)

Wyatt Earp

6.7

Nicholas Earp

1994

 

Wes Studi in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

Geronimo: An American Legend

6.6

Brig. Gen. George Crook

1993

 

Tom Cruise in The Firm (1993)

The Firm

6.9

Avery Tolar

1993

 

Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)

Unforgiven

8.2

Little Bill Daggett

1992

 

Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Company Business (1991)

Company Business

5.7

Sam Boyd

1991

 

Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Class Action (1991)

Class Action

6.4

Jedediah Tucker Ward

1991

 

Narrow Margin (1990)

Narrow Margin

6.6

Robert Caulfield

1990

 

Postcards from the Edge (1990)

Postcards from the Edge

6.7

Lowell Kolchek

1990

 

Dan Aykroyd and Gene Hackman in Loose Cannons (1990)

Loose Cannons

4.9

MacArthur Stern

1990

 

The Package (1989)

The Package

6.4

Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

1989

 

Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)

Mississippi Burning

7.8

Anderson

1988

 

Mia Farrow and Gena Rowlands in Another Woman (1988)

Another Woman

7.2

Larry

1988

 

Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, and Burgess Meredith in Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)

Full Moon in Blue Water

5.6

Floyd

1988

 

Danny Glover and Gene Hackman in Bat*21 (1988)

Bat*21

6.5

Lt. Colonel Iceal Hambleton

1988

 

Gene Hackman, Craig Sheffer, and Eddie Velez in Split Decisions (1988)

Split Decisions

5.2

Dan McGuinn

1988

 

Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young in No Way Out (1987)

No Way Out

7.1

David Brice

1987

 

Gene Hackman, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, and Mark Pillow in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

3.7

Lex Luthor

1987

 

Hoosiers (1986)

Hoosiers

7.4

Coach Norman Dale

1986

 

Power (1986)

Power

5.7

Wilfred Buckley

1986

 

Target (1985)

Target

5.9

Walter Lloyd

1985

 

Gene Hackman, Ally Sheedy, Ellen Burstyn, and Amy Madigan in Twice in a Lifetime (1985)

Twice in a Lifetime

6.4

Harry

1985

 

Gene Hackman, Henry Thomas, and Huckleberry Fox in Misunderstood (1984)

Misunderstood

5.9

Ned

1984

 

Uncommon Valor (1983)

Uncommon Valor

6.3

Col. Jason Rhodes

1983

 

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Two of a Kind (1983)

Two of a Kind

4.7

God (voice, uncredited)

1983

 

Under Fire (1983)

Under Fire

7.0

Alex Grazier

1983

 

Gene Hackman in Eureka (1983)

Eureka

5.9

Jack McCann

1983

 

Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in Reds (1981)

Reds

7.3

Pete Van Wherry

1981

 

Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid, and Barbra Streisand in All Night Long (1981)

All Night Long

5.5

George Dupler

1981

 

Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, and Valerie Perrine in Superman II (1980)

Superman II

6.8

Lex Luthor

1980

 

Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Jeff East, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, and Susannah York in Superman (1978)

Superman

7.4

Lex Luthor

1978

 

March or Die (1977)

March or Die

6.3

Maj. William Sherman Foster

1977

 

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

A Bridge Too Far

7.4

Maj. Gen. Sosabowski

1977

 

Candice Bergen and Gene Hackman in The Domino Principle (1977)

The Domino Principle

5.7

Tucker

1977

 

Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, and Liza Minnelli in Lucky Lady (1975)

Lucky Lady

5.2

Kibby Womack

1975

 

Gene Hackman in French Connection II (1975)

French Connection II

6.7

Doyle

1975

 

Candice Bergen, James Coburn, and Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet (1975)

Bite the Bullet

6.6

Sam Clayton

1975

 

Gene Hackman in Night Moves (1975)

Night Moves

7.1

Harry Moseby

1975

 

Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974)

Young Frankenstein

8.0

Blindman

1974

 

Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann in Zandy's Bride (1974)

Zandy's Bride

6.3

Zandy Allan

1974

 

Gene Hackman, John Cazale, and Allen Garfield in The Conversation (1974)

The Conversation

7.7

Harry Caul

1974

 

Scarecrow (1973)

Scarecrow

7.2

Max

1973

 

Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Nielsen, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, and Eric Shea in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Poseidon Adventure

7.1

Reverend Scott

1972

 

Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, and Lee Marvin in Prime Cut (1972)

Prime Cut

6.7

Mary Ann

1972

 

Dick Martin and Dan Rowan in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

8.0

TV Series

Guest Performer

Joseph Natalie

Jacob Haye

1972

2 episodes

 

Gene Hackman, Karen Black, and Kris Kristofferson in Cisco Pike (1971)

Cisco Pike

6.5

Officer Leo Holland

1971

 

Gene Hackman and Marcel Bozzuffi in The French Connection (1971)

The French Connection

7.7

Jimmy Doyle

1971

 

Candice Bergen and Oliver Reed in The Hunting Party (1971)

The Hunting Party

6.2

Brandt Ruger

1971

 

Doctors' Wives (1971)

Doctors' Wives

4.7

Dr. Dave Randolph

1971

 

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

I Never Sang for My Father

7.4

Gene Garrison

1970

 

Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Mariette Hartley, David Janssen, and Nancy Kovack in Marooned (1969)

Marooned

5.9

Buzz Lloyd

1969

 

Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv in Downhill Racer (1969)

Downhill Racer

6.3

Claire

1969

 

The Gypsy Moths (1969)

The Gypsy Moths

6.3

Joe Browdy

1969

 

Gene Hackman, Jim Brown, Ben Carruthers, and Gerald S. O'Loughlin in Riot (1969)

Riot

5.9

Red Fraker

1969

 

Shadow on the Land (1968)

Shadow on the Land

6.0

TV Movie

Rev. Thomas Davis

1968

 

Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown, Jack Klugman, Julie Harris, and Warren Oates in The Split (1968)

The Split

6.0

Detective Lt. Walter Brill

1968

 

Insight (1960)

Insight

7.4

TV Series

Holt

1968

1 episode

 

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp in I Spy (1965)

I Spy

7.2

TV Series

Frank Hunter

1968

1 episode

 

CBS Playhouse (1967)

CBS Playhouse

6.7

TV Series

Ned

1968

1 episode

 

Iron Horse (1966)

Iron Horse

7.0

TV Series

Harry Wadsworth

1967

1 episode

 

The Invaders (1967)

The Invaders

8.0

TV Series

Tom Jessup

1967

1 episode

 

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Bonnie and Clyde

7.7

Buck Barrow

1967

 

Jill St. John, Robert Wagner, Susan Clark, and Anjanette Comer in Banning (1967)

Banning

5.7

Tommy Del Gaddo

1967

 

Community Shelter Planning

5.9

Short

Donald Ross - Regional Civil Defense Officer

1967

 

A Covenant with Death (1967)

A Covenant with Death

6.0

Harmsworth

1967

 

Marilyn Devin and Chad Everett in First to Fight (1967)

First to Fight

5.7

Sgt. Tweed

1967

 

The F.B.I. (1965)

The F.B.I.

7.4

TV Series

Herb Kenyon

1967

1 episode

 

Hawaii (1966)

Hawaii

6.5

Dr. John Whipple

1966

 

Burt Reynolds in Hawk (1966)

Hawk

6.8

TV Series

Houston Worth

1966

1 episode

 

Directions

6.3

TV Series

1966

1 episode

 

Peter Falk in The Trials of O'Brien (1965)

The Trials of O'Brien

7.6

TV Series

Roger Nathan

1966

1 episode

 

Lilith (1964)

Lilith

6.8

Norman

1964

 

Brenner (1959)

Brenner

6.9

TV Series

Officer Richard Clayburn

Officer Dick Clayburn

Patrolman Claiborne

1959–1964

3 episodes

 

George C. Scott in East Side/West Side (1963)

East Side/West Side

8.4

TV Series

Policeman

1963

1 episode

 

Walter Matthau and Frank McGee in The DuPont Show of the Week (1961)

The DuPont Show of the Week

6.1

TV Series

Douglas McCann

1963

1 episode

 

Ride with Terror (1963)

Ride with Terror

6.6

TV Movie

Douglas McCann

1963

 

George Maharis and Martin Milner in Route 66 (1960)

Route 66

7.7

TV Series

Motorist

1963

1 episode

 

Robert Reed and E.G. Marshall in The Defenders (1961)

The Defenders

7.9

TV Series

Stanley McGuirk

Jerry Warner

1961–1963

2 episodes

 

Naked City (1958)

Naked City

8.2

TV Series

Mr. Jasper

1963

1 episode

 

Look Up and Live (1954)

Look Up and Live

5.7

TV Series

Frank Collins

1963

1 episode

 

Kraft Theatre (1947)

The United States Steel Hour

7.8

TV Series

Norman

Ed

Detective Cramer ...

1959–1962

8 episodes

 

Tallahassee 7000 (1961)

Tallahassee 7000

6.9

TV Series

Joe Lawson

1961

1 episode

 

John Davis Chandler and Leonardo Cimino in Mad Dog Coll (1961)

Mad Dog Coll

5.5

Cop (uncredited)

1961

 

Producer

Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Monica Bellucci in Under Suspicion (2000)

Under Suspicion

6.4

executive producer

2000

 

Stunts

Gene Hackman and Marcel Bozzuffi in The French Connection (1971)

The French Connection

7.7

stunts (uncredited)

1971

 

Thanks

Christopher Reeve in Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

8.0

special thanks

2024

 

Silent Times (2018)

Silent Times

6.4

special thanks

2018

 

A Backyard Story

8.1

grateful acknowledgment

2010

 

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection' (2001)

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection'

6.9

TV Movie

special thanks

2001

 

American Masters (1985)

American Masters

8.2

TV Series

thanks

2000

1 episode

 

Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Fred Ward in Miami Blues (1990)

Miami Blues

6.4

special thanks

1990

 

Dieter & Andreas

8.3

Short

grateful acknowledgment

1989

 

Soundtrack

Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest in The Birdcage (1996)

The Birdcage

7.2

performer: "I Could Have Danced All Night"

1996

 

Under Fire (1983)

Under Fire

7.0

performer: "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (uncredited)

1983

 

Gene Hackman in French Connection II (1975)

French Connection II

6.7

performer: "Mademoiselle from Armentières" (uncredited)

1975

 

Gene Hackman and Marcel Bozzuffi in The French Connection (1971)

The French Connection

7.7

performer: "Jingle Bells" (1857) (uncredited)

1971

 

The Gypsy Moths (1969)

The Gypsy Moths

6.3

performer: "The U.S. Air Force Song" (uncredited)

1969

 

Self

The Apprenticeship of Ted Kotcheff

Self

Pre-production

 

Bridget Brennan and James Glenday in ABC News Breakfast (2008)

ABC News Breakfast

5.6

TV Series

Self - Actor

2024

1 episode

 

Pritan Ambroase in Hollywood Insider (2018)

Hollywood Insider

3.2

TV Series

Self

2020–2021

4 episodes

 

Clint Eastwood in Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021)

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

7.8

TV Mini Series

Self

2021

3 episodes

 

We, the Marines (2017)

We, the Marines

5.5

Short

Narrator

2017

 

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima (2016)

The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

7.6

TV Movie

Narrator

2016

 

Clint Eastwood in Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

6.8

Self

2013

 

The Role That Changed My Life (2007)

The Role That Changed My Life

4.3

TV Series

Self

2010

1 episode

 

Hackman on Doyle

5.7

Video

Self

2009

 

John Cazale in I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

7.7

Short

Self

2009

 

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2006)

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

7.3

TV Series

Self

2008

2 episodes

 

AFI Life Achievement Award (1973)

AFI Life Achievement Award

5.5

TV Mini Series

Self

Self - Audience Member

1981–2008

6 episodes

 

AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres

7.4

TV Special

Self

2008

 

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

6.9

Video

Self

2008

 

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions (2006)

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

9.1

TV Series

Self - Narrator

2007

4 episodes

 

All Access: The Showdown of 'Enemy of the State'

Video

Self

2006

 

The Making of 'Enemy of the State' (2006)

The Making of 'Enemy of the State'

7.2

Video

Self - Brill

2006

 

Hoosier History: The Truth Behind the Legend

7.7

Video

Self

2005

 

Get Shorty: Wiseguys and Dolls

6.1

Video

Self

2005

 

Get Shorty: Look at Me

6.6

Video

Self

2005

 

Larry King in Larry King Live (1985)

Larry King Live

5.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

2004

1 episode

 

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

7.5

Narrator (voice)

2004

 

Hollywood Greats (1977)

Hollywood Greats

7.7

TV Series

Self

2004

1 episode

 

Off the Cuff: Hackman & Hoffman

Video

Self

2004

 

Exploring the Scene: Hackman & Hoffman Together (2004)

Exploring the Scene: Hackman & Hoffman Together

Video

Self

2004

 

The Making of 'Runaway Jury'

6.1

Video

Self

2004

 

HBO First Look (1992)

HBO First Look

6.2

TV Series

Self

2000–2003

2 episodes

 

Hidden City (2003)

Hidden City

8.5

TV Movie

Narrator

2003

 

The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)

The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards

6.0

TV Special

Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient

2003

 

Colors of Courage: Sons of New Mexico, Prisoners of Japan

Narrator

2002

 

Page to Screen (2002)

Page to Screen

7.0

TV Series

Self

2002

1 episode

 

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger (2002)

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

6.5

Video

Self

2002

 

Biography (1987)

Biography

7.7

TV Series

Self

1994–2002

2 episodes

 

The Directors (1997)

The Directors

7.5

TV Series

Self

2001

1 episode

 

Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter (2001)

Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter

5.9

Short

Self

2001

 

Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978)

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

7.4

Video

Self

Lex Luthor

2001

 

James Lipton in Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

Inside the Actors Studio

8.6

TV Series

Self - Guest

2001

1 episode

 

Heartbreakers: Laffs & Gaffes (2001)

Heartbreakers: Laffs & Gaffes

6.4

Video

Self

2001

 

The Making of 'Heartbreakers' (2001)

The Making of 'Heartbreakers'

Video

Self

2001

 

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection' (2001)

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'the French Connection'

6.9

TV Movie

Self

2001

 

Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001)

Heroes of Iwo Jima

8.0

TV Movie

Self - Host

Narrator

2001

 

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' (2001)

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

7.2

Video

Self

Lex Luthor

2001

 

Backstory (2000)

Backstory

8.3

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

Arena (1975)

Arena

7.6

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

Alain Juppé in Vol de nuit (1999)

Vol de nuit

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

American Masters (1985)

American Masters

8.2

TV Series

Self - Actor

Self - Narrator

1998–2000

2 episodes

 

Bravo Profiles (1998)

Bravo Profiles

7.0

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

Anne-Claire Coudray in Le journal de 20 heures (1956)

Le journal de 20 heures

4.5

TV Series

Self

2000

1 episode

 

Gene Hackman, William Friedkin, and Roy Scheider in The French Connection (1971)

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

7.4

TV Movie

Self - 'Popeye' Doyle

2000

 

Charlie Rose in Charlie Rose (1991)

Charlie Rose

7.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

1999

1 episode

 

Enemy of the State: Production

Video

Self

1999

 

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends

6.9

TV Special

Self

1999

 

The Secret World of Antz (1998)

The Secret World of Antz

6.2

TV Movie

Self

1998

 

The Best of Hollywood (1998)

The Best of Hollywood

5.8

TV Movie

Self - Interview

1998

 

Rosie O'Donnell in The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

4.2

TV Series

Self - Guest

1998

1 episode

 

Jet 7 (1996)

Jet 7

6.2

TV Series

Self

1998

1 episode

 

Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

Sports on the Silver Screen

5.5

TV Movie

Self (uncredited)

1997

 

Laurin Sydney in Showbiz Today (1985)

Showbiz Today

4.4

TV Series

Self

1996

1 episode

 

All Access: On the Set of 'Crimson Tide'

7.8

Video

Self

1995

 

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

6.7

Video

Self

1995

 

Jay Leno in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

5.3

TV Series

Self - Guest

1992–1995

3 episodes

 

CBS Mornings (1987)

CBS Mornings

5.2

TV Series

Self - Guest

1990–1995

2 episodes

 

Maury Povich in Maury (1991)

Maury

4.0

TV Series

Self

1995

1 episode

 

The Movie Show (1991)

The Movie Show

7.5

TV Series

Self

1995

1 episode

 

Shurtleff on Acting (1994)

Shurtleff on Acting

TV Movie

Self

1994

 

Wyatt Earp: Walk with a Legend

6.3

TV Movie

Self

1994

 

100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994)

100 Years of the Hollywood Western

7.2

TV Movie

Self

1994

 

The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994)

The 66th Annual Academy Awards

6.3

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1994

 

The 20th Annual People's Choice Awards (1994)

The 20th Annual People's Choice Awards

6.0

TV Special

Self - Accepting Award for Dramatic Motion Picture

1994

 

The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)

The 65th Annual Academy Awards

6.4

TV Special

Self - Winner & Presenter

1993

 

The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993)

The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards

6.8

TV Special

Self - Winner

1993

 

Earth and the American Dream (1992)

Earth and the American Dream

6.8

William Gilpin (voice)

1992

 

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992)

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

7.0

TV Movie

Self

1992

 

Clint Eastwood in Clint Eastwood on Westerns (1992)

Clint Eastwood on Westerns

7.7

TV Movie

Self

1992

 

The 46th Annual Tony Awards (1992)

The 46th Annual Tony Awards

6.8

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1992

 

ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961)

ABC's Wide World of Sports

7.6

TV Series

Self - Audience Member

1991

1 episode

 

Savannah Marshall in Sky Sports World Championship Boxing (1989)

Sky Sports World Championship Boxing

7.5

TV Series

Self

1991

1 episode

 

Ken Adam - Production Designer

Self

1990

 

Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie in Today (1952)

Today

4.6

TV Series

Self - Guest

1990

1 episode

 

Island of Hope, Island of Tears (1989)

Island of Hope, Island of Tears

7.0

Short

Narrator

1989

 

Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Michael Strahan in Good Morning America (1975)

Good Morning America

4.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

1986–1989

2 episodes

 

The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989)

The 61st Annual Academy Awards

5.6

TV Special

Self - Nominee & Presenter

1989

 

Mayim Bialik at an event for The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1989)

The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards

5.6

TV Special

Self - Nominee

1989

 

David Letterman in Late Night with David Letterman (1982)

Late Night with David Letterman

7.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

1988

1 episode

 

Nightlife (1986)

Nightlife

5.6

TV Series

Self

1987

1 episode

 

Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner in Entertainment Tonight (1981)

Entertainment Tonight

3.6

TV Series

Self

1986–1987

2 episodes

 

Terry Wogan in Wogan (1982)

Wogan

6.0

TV Series

Self

1986

1 episode

 

Sunday, Sunday (1982)

Sunday, Sunday

TV Series

Self

1986

1 episode

 

Cinéma cinémas (1982)

Cinéma cinémas

7.0

TV Series

Self

1986

1 episode

 

Night of 100 Stars II (1985)

Night of 100 Stars II

7.4

TV Special

Self

1985

 

The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984)

The 56th Annual Academy Awards

6.0

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1984

 

The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984)

The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards

6.1

TV Special

Self - Nominee & Presenter

1984

 

Johnny Carson in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

8.5

TV Series

Self - Guest

Self

1972–1984

8 episodes

 

Melvyn Bragg in The South Bank Show (1978)

The South Bank Show

6.9

TV Series

Self - Guest

1983

1 episode

 

The Making of 'Superman II' (1982)

The Making of 'Superman II'

6.9

TV Movie

Self

1982

 

Ciné regards (1978)

Ciné regards

7.2

TV Series

Self

1981

1 episode

 

Christopher Reeve in The Making of Superman: The Movie (1980)

The Making of Superman: The Movie

7.0

TV Movie

Self

1980

 

A Look at Liv

8.0

Self

1979

 

Revista de cine

7.9

TV Series

Self - Interviewee

1979

1 episode

 

V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971)

V.I.P.-Schaukel

7.9

TV Series

Self

1978

1 episode

 

Speed Fever (1978)

Speed Fever

6.7

Self

1978

 

The Manipulators

Short

Self (uncredited)

1977

 

Film '72 (1971)

Film '72

7.0

TV Series

Self

1973–1977

4 episodes

 

Mike Douglas in The Mike Douglas Show (1961)

The Mike Douglas Show

7.1

TV Series

Self - Guest

1975–1977

7 episodes

 

At Long Last Cole

7.9

TV Special

Self

1975

 

Merv Griffin in The Merv Griffin Show (1962)

The Merv Griffin Show

6.6

TV Series

Self - Guest

Self

1971–1975

5 episodes

 

Dinah Shore in Dinah! (1974)

Dinah!

7.1

TV Series

Self - Guest

1975

1 episode

 

Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and William Peter Blatty in The 31st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1974)

The 31st Annual Golden Globe Awards

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1974

 

ABC Late Night (1973)

ABC Late Night

8.1

TV Series

Self

1974

1 episode

 

The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973)

The 45th Annual Academy Awards

6.8

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1973

 

The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards

TV Special

Self - Presenter

1973

 

The Return of the Movie Movie

5.4

Short

Rev. Frank Scott

Self (uncredited)

1972

 

The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972)

The 44th Annual Academy Awards

6.4

TV Special

Self - Presenter & Winner

1972

 

Cinema (1964)

Cinema

6.4

TV Series

Self

1972

1 episode

 

Paul Lynde in Hollywood Squares (1965)

Hollywood Squares

6.8

TV Series

Self - Panelist

1971

1 episode

 

The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971)

The 43rd Annual Academy Awards

6.4

TV Special

Self - Nominee

1971

 

The Sky Divers

6.3

Short

Self

1969

 

David Frost in The David Frost Show (1969)

The David Frost Show

7.2

TV Series

Self - Guest

1969

1 episode

 

The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968)

The 40th Annual Academy Awards

6.5

TV Special

Self - Nominee

1968

 

Look Up and Live (1954)

Look Up and Live

5.7

TV Series

1962

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and Mika Brzezinski in Morning Joe (2007)

Morning Joe

4.1

TV Series

Norman Dale

Lex Luthor

Royal Tenenbaum (archive footage) ...

2023–2025

2 episodes

 

Faye (2024)

Faye

7.1

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2024

 

Holly Madison in The Playboy Murders (2023)

The Playboy Murders

6.6

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2024

1 episode

 

Christopher Reeve in Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

8.0

Self - Actor, Superman (archive footage)

2024

 

Gene Wilder in Remembering Gene Wilder (2023)

Remembering Gene Wilder

7.8

Self

Blindman (archive footage)

2023

 

Sinatra Reviews (2021)

Sinatra Reviews

7.8

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2022

1 episode

 

FRO Thizzle Reviews (2022)

FRO Thizzle Reviews

7.8

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2022

1 episode

 

Al Pacino in Al Pacino, le Bronx et la fureur (2022)

Al Pacino, le Bronx et la fureur

6.9

Self (archive footage)

2022

 

Clint Eastwood in Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021)

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

7.8

TV Mini Series

Self (archive footage)

2021

1 episode

 

Burt Reynolds in I Am Burt Reynolds (2020)

I Am Burt Reynolds

7.3

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2020

 

Pritan Ambroase in Hollywood Insider (2018)

Hollywood Insider

3.2

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2020

1 episode

 

Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2010)

Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte

8.1

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2020

1 episode

 

The Very Very Best of the 70s (2019)

The Very Very Best of the 70s

7.9

TV Series

Reverend Scott (archive footage)

2019

1 episode

 

Valerie (2019)

Valerie

8.0

Short

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2019

 

The Movies (2019)

The Movies

7.8

TV Mini Series

Jimmy Doyle

Max

Harry Caul (archive footage)

2019

1 episode

 

William Wellman Jr. and Rob Word in A Word on Westerns (2014)

A Word on Westerns

8.7

TV Series

(archive footage)

2018

1 episode

 

The Best of Hollywood (1999)

The Best of Hollywood

8.8

TV Series

Self - Interviewee (archive footage)

2017–2018

3 episodes

 

Gene Wilder: Loved, Remembered

Short

Self (archive footage)

2017

 

Jimmy Kimmel in The Oscars (2017)

The Oscars

6.8

TV Special

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2017

 

No Sleep TV3 (2015)

No Sleep TV3

9.6

TV Series

Herod (archive footage, uncredited)

2016

1 episode

 

Matt Sloan and Craig Johnson in Welcome to the Basement (2012)

Welcome to the Basement

7.9

TV Series

Self

Sen. Kevin Keeley (archive footage)

2015

1 episode

 

Terry Wogan in Wogan: The Best Of (2015)

Wogan: The Best Of

8.1

TV Series

Self - Guest (archive footage)

2015

1 episode

 

For the Small Schools

Video

Self (archive footage)

2015

 

Damien Duvot in Les Chroniques du Mea (2012)

Les Chroniques du Mea

6.8

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2014

1 episode

 

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007)

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness

8.8

TV Series

Blindman (archive footage)

2014

1 episode

 

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

7.4

Lex Luthor (archive footage, uncredited)

2014

 

Missing Reel (2014)

Missing Reel

6.8

TV Mini Series

Jimmy Doyle (archive footage)

2014

1 episode

 

And the Oscar Goes to... (2014)

And the Oscar Goes to...

7.1

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2014

 

Russell Harty in The Unforgettable Russell Harty (2012)

The Unforgettable Russell Harty

TV Movie

Self - Interviewee on The Russell Harty Show (archive footage)

2012

 

Fan des années 80 (2009)

Fan des années 80

TV Series

Lex Luthor (archive footage)

2010

1 episode

 

Young Frankenstein: It's Alive! Creating a Monster Classic (2008)

Young Frankenstein: It's Alive! Creating a Monster Classic

7.6

Video

Blindman (archive footage)

2008

 

Bill O'Reilly in The Factor (1996)

The Factor

3.3

TV Series

Blindman (archive footage)

2008

1 episode

 

Terence Stamp, Christopher Reeve, Sarah Douglas, and Jack O'Halloran in Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

7.6

Lex Luthor (archive footage)

2006

 

Matt Dillon in Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (2006)

Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon

5.7

TV Special

Walter Lloyd

Duncan (Duke) Potter (archive footage, uncredited)

2006

 

Hollywood Science (2006)

Hollywood Science

7.5

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2006

1 episode

 

The Godfather and the Mob

7.8

TV Movie

(archive footage)

2006

 

It Happened That Way

5.7

Video

Self - 'Nicholas Earp' (archive footage)

2004

 

Biography (1987)

Biography

7.7

TV Series

Self

Defense Secretary David Brice on 'No Way Out'

Jimmy Doyle (archive footage)

1995–2003

4 episodes

 

James Lipton in Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

Inside the Actors Studio

8.6

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2003

1 episode

 

Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (1998)

Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer

5.7

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2002

1 episode

 

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

The Kid Stays in the Picture

7.3

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2002

 

De Superman à Spider-Man: L'aventure des super-héros (2001)

De Superman à Spider-Man: L'aventure des super-héros

6.8

TV Movie

Lex Luthor (archive footage)

2001

 

Heartbreakers: Deleted Scenes (2001)

Heartbreakers: Deleted Scenes

Video

William B. Tensy (archive footage)

2001

 

Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000)

Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies

5.0

Video

(archive footage)

2000

 

Hollywood Remembers (2000)

Hollywood Remembers

4.4

TV Series

(archive footage)

2000

1 episode

 

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000)

Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

7.0

TV Movie

Jimmy Doyle

Self (archive footage)

2000

 

Split Screen (1997)

Split Screen

5.5

TV Series

Harry Caul (archive footage)

1999

1 episode

 

Femmes Fatales: Sharon Stone (1998)

Femmes Fatales: Sharon Stone

4.6

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1998

 

Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998)

Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras

7.3

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1998

 

Making Frankensense of 'Young Frankenstein'

7.0

Video

Self (archive footage)

1996

 

The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995)

The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen

7.9

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

1995

 

Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995)

Century of Cinema

7.7

TV Series

Little Bill Daggett (archive footage, uncredited)

1995

1 episode

 

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

7.2

TV Movie

(archive footage)

1994

 

100 Years at the Movies (1994)

100 Years at the Movies

8.0

TV Short

Self (archive footage)

1994

 

The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special

7.1

TV Special

Self

Harry Caul (archive footage)

1989

 

The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987)

The 59th Annual Academy Awards

6.7

TV Special

Det. Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle (archive footage, uncredited)

1987

 

The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986)

The 58th Annual Academy Awards

5.9

TV Special

Harry MacKenzie (archive footage, uncredited)

1986

 

Big Audio Dynamite: E=MC2 (1985)

Big Audio Dynamite: E=MC2

7.7

Music Video

Jack McCann (archive footage, uncredited)

1985

 

En Büyük Yumruk (1983)

En Büyük Yumruk

5.2

Jimmy Doyle (archive footage, uncredited)

1983

 

That's Hollywood (1976)

That's Hollywood

8.7

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

1978

1 episode

 

Mike Douglas in The Mike Douglas Show (1961)

The Mike Douglas Show

7.1

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

1976

1 episode

 

America at the Movies (1976)

America at the Movies

7.1

Self (archive footage)

1976

 

V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971)

V.I.P.-Schaukel

7.9

TV Series

Jimmy Doyle aka. Eddie Egan (archive footage)

1975

1 episode

 

Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist (1974)

Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

TV Special

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1974

 

7 Nights to Remember (1966)

7 Nights to Remember

TV Special

Houston Worth (archive footage)

1966