Oscar-winning Actor Gene Hackman And Wife Found Dead At Home

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

 

Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office said: “We do not believe foul play was a factor in their deaths; however, the exact cause of death has not been determined at this time.”

 

In a career that spanned more than six decades, Hackman, 95, received two Academy Awards, two Baftas, four Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

 

Hackman won the best actor Oscar for his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller The French Connection, and another for best supporting actor for playing Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven in 1992.

 

His other Oscar-nominated roles were in 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, as Buck Barrow, 1970’s I Never Sang for My Father, and as the agent in Mississippi Burning (1988).

 

Much celebrated actor Hackman played more than 100 rules including Lex Luthor in Superman movies in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

He also starred in the hit movies Runaway Jury and The Conservation, as well as Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums.

 

His last big screen appearance came as Monroe Cole in Welcome to Mooseport in 2004.

 

His wife, Betsy Arakawa, 63, was a classical pianist.

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