Gene Hackman Former Woodland Hills Home Lists for $6 Million
gene hackman’s former Woodland Hills home has hit the market for $6 million, putting a 1928 English Tudor back into the luxury tier of Los Angeles residential listings. The house sits in the Queen Streets neighborhood on over two acres and carries the kind of layered ownership history that makes old Hollywood properties rare inventory rather than routine resales.
The residence was built by local developer Harold Ferguson and later owned by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, whose name appears on blueprints dated 1935. Gene Hackman held it only briefly, from roughly 1970 to 1971, before the current owners took over in 1994.
Queen Streets on Two Acres
The listing keeps the numbers in the foreground: almost 6,500 square feet of living space, a guesthouse, and a bonus recreation room on a parcel of over two acres. Deanna D’Egidio, the listing agent at Harcourts Plus, called it “a true one of one as it supersedes homes in the area by decades,” a description that fits a property whose scale is increasingly hard to replace in Woodland Hills.
D’Egidio also said the neighborhood was originally advertised as the Bel Air of the San Fernando Valley, and added that “spectacular and unmatched for many homes” describes the views. That pitch matters because the listing is not selling square footage alone; it is selling a lot configuration, siting, and historic footprint that newer construction rarely matches.
From Curtiz to Hackman
The home’s Hollywood pedigree stretches beyond Hackman. Curtiz owned it for more than 15 years, and the property later became linked to Jodie Foster through the original carriage house, which sold in 2020 for $1.9 million after serving as her longtime residence.
The property was also described by D’Egidio as one where “Jack Warner lived in the area (Warner Brothers president), whom Curtiz worked for on most films,” tying the house to the studio era that still gives certain Los Angeles addresses their premium. This is a listing where provenance is part of the price, not a decorative footnote.
Hackman’s Santa Fe Sale
The timing gives the Woodland Hills listing extra weight: Hackman died at age 95, and his Santa Fe compound sold in February after just eight days on the market. That quick sale suggests his name still moves high-end property, but the Woodland Hills house offers something different — a larger, older footprint with a Hollywood chain of ownership that has been preserved rather than replaced.
For buyers, the practical question is whether they want a modern trophy home or a piece of Los Angeles film history with acreage attached. This one is built for the second camp, and the $6 million ask puts that choice plainly in the open.
