Award-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico residence. There was no suspected foul, but authorities did not release his death and said an investigation was underway.
Denise Avila, a spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, said Hackman, 95, died with his wife, Betsy Arakawa and their dog when deputies made welfare checks at home around 1:45 p.m.
Emails sent to PR staff were not immediately returned early Thursday.
The rude but Groft Hackman is one of the best actors of his generation, starting in the 1960s and playing villains, heroes and anti-heroes in dozens of drama, comedy, and action movies until his retirement in the early 2000s. He has won five Oscar nominees France Connection In 1971 Not forgiving 21 years apart.
Hackman moved to the area in the 1980s, often seen in town, and served on the board of directors of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Georgia in the 1990s. He rarely saw him on the Hollywood Social Tour except for attending awards, and retired 20 years ago, the last major screen character he took on in the 2004 comedy Welcome to Mooseportwas filmed in Port Perry, Ontario.
Hackman, though self-respecting and out of place, holds a special place in Hollywood, the heir to Spencer Tracy, is everyone, the actor to the cast, curmudgeon and barely celebrity. He embodies the spirit of doing his own work and doing a good job, making others worry about his image.
Hackman has built his own range in the first decade of his film career, from his breakthrough performances at Bonnie and Clyde, Young Frankensteinroad movie scarecrow Along with another rising star Al Pacino, and a secret surveillance expert released by Watergate-erapre dialogue.
Later in his career, he seamlessly turned out from the drama Mississippi Burning,,,,, Indians and Crimson tidelike comedy Go shorter,,,,, birdcage and Royal Tennenbaums.
Apart from his mandatory appearance at the awards ceremony, he rarely sees his disdain for the business aspects of the show business on social tours.
He commented to the film in 1988: “Actors are often shy people. Maybe there is a component of shy hostility, and to the point where you don’t deal with others in a hostile or angry way, you can choose this medium yourself…and then you can express yourself and get this excellent feedback.”
He was an early retiree in Hollywood after a night bloom. Hackman 35 years old Bonnie and Clyde He won his first Oscar before the age of 40 because New York City detective Jimmy (Popeye) Doyle in the 1971 thriller Tracking Manhattan Drug Smugglers, France Connection.
In his later years, he wrote novels on the Mountain Top Ranch, enjoying views of the Rocky Mountains.
“Dysfunctional” family life
Born in San Bernardino, California, Eugene Allen Hackman grew up in Danville, Illinois, where his father worked as a newspaper journalist. His parents fought repeatedly, Hackan found a shelter in the cinema and identified his role model with screen rebels like Errol Flynn and James Cagney.
When Hackman was 13, his father waved goodbye and drove away, never coming back. At 16, he “suddenly itched.” At about his age, he enlisted in the army.
In his 30s, his mother died from a fire with her own cigarettes before his film career took off.
He observed in an interview with The New York Times in 2001: “Dysfunctional families are accompanied by many very good actors.”
His taste for the performance industry came when he conquered his microphone and became a record jockey and news announcer on his military force radio station. Hackman received an enrollment in the University of Illinois journalism while in his post as Marine Corps with a high school degree. Six months later, he dropped out of school for a broadcast announced in New York.
After working at a station in Florida and his hometown of Danville, he returned to New York to study paintings by the Art Student Union. Hackman switched to Pasadena Playhouse again to take a acting class.
Back in New York, he found work as a doorman and truck driver, awaiting the actor’s rest and sweated in the early 1960s with hopeful companions such as On-Otime roommates Robert Duvall and Dustin Hoffman.
Bonnie and Clyde’s breakthrough
In a theater on Long Island, summer work led to Broadway’s role. Hackman started to attract the attention of Broadway producers, and he received good news in dramas like this Poor Richard1964 with Alan Bates.
The small characters in movies and TV that followed, including a brief twist in 1964 Lilithstarring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg.
When Beatty starts working Bonnie and Clydehe produced and starred in this, remembered Hackman and regarded him as the soon-to-be-departed brother of bank robber Clyde Barrow. Pauline Kael of New Yorker called Hackman’s work “a beautifully controlled performance, the best in the film,” and he was nominated for the Academy Awards.
Hackman’s first starring role in the movie was in 1970 with I never sing for my fatherwhen a man struggles to deal with his relationship with his dying father, Melvyn Douglas. Even though he had the central part, Hackman was nominated for the actor and Douglas’s leadership by the Oscar.
Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen and Peter Boyle are Doyle actors. At the time, Hackman was a small star and seemed to have no gorgeous personality that the character required. The actor himself is worried that he will be misunderstood.
One of the original scenes France Connection Hackman is asked to slap around the suspect. The actor realized he failed to achieve the intensity required for the scene and asked director William Friedkin to seek another opportunity. The scene was filmed at the end of the shooting, when Hackman was already immersed in Doyle’s loose Bannon role. Friedkin will recall the need to take 37 to get the scene right.
The film is part of a series of works against Hackman in the early 1970s, including as a corrupt policeman Cisco Pikethe first featured movie character of musician Kris Kristofferson, and in “Disaster” Poseidon Adventure.
Persuaded by Eastwood
Hackman also refused to bring him a second Oscar. When Clint Eastwood first offered him Bill Daggett Jr. Not forgivingHackman – has played villains before, including Lex Luthor Superman – Rejected. But he realized that Eastwood was planning another kind of western, a criticism, rather than celebrating violence.
The film won him an Academy Award as the 1992 Best Supporting Actor.
“It is commendable that my joy made me chat with it,” Hackman said of Eastwood in an interview with the American Film Academy.
For a while, he appeared to be in the world’s busiest Oscar winner with Michael Caine. In 2001 alone, he appeared in Mexico,,,,, The sad person,,,,, robbery,,,,, Royal Tenenbaums and Behind the enemy line.
In 1956, Hackman married Fay Maltese, who met at a YMCA dance in New York. They had a son, Christopher, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Leslie, but divorced in the mid-1980s.
In 1991, he married the classical pianist Arakawa. When not at the movie location, Hackman loves painting, aerobatics, stock racing and deep-sea diving.
