Veteran Actor Gene Hackman Left us
Two-time Oscar winner veteran Actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US. The couple reportedly died along with their dog. Mr Hackman was 95 and his wife was 63.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Aidan Mendoza confirmed the deaths and said the matter was under investigation.
“We can confirm that Gene Hackman and his wife were both found dead at their residence on Sunset Trail on Wednesday afternoon.
“This is an active investigation – however, at this time we do not believe foul play was a factor,” said Mr Mendoza, quoted by the BBC.
Mr Mendoza did not provide clarity on the cause or time of death.
“All I can say is that we are in the midst of a preliminary death investigation, awaiting search warrant approval,” he said.
Born in 1930, Mr Hackman played more than 100 roles. He won two Oscars – best actor for the role of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, and best supporting actor for Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven.
Great Films Given by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman
We recall great films starring Gene Hackman, one of the great actors to emerge from the New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s.
In 2004, Gene Hackman appeared in an unforgettable supporting role in Welcome to Mooseport. It was a uniquely intelligent performance in an unwatchable film and fans thought it was another step towards an even better movie.
But nothing happened and, a few years later, Hackman announced his retirement from acting. Subsequent offers from directors such as Alexander Payne have not tempted him and it is now highly unlikely that he will make another film. But his 33-year career, starting with Mad Dog Coll (1960), has produced plenty of treasures…
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman
Hackman had been playing minor roles in films for several years when he was called upon to play Buck Barrow in Arthur Penn’s era-defining period drama. It was a dream role, with strong support from Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles.
Buck is an incorrigible show-off, a braggart with a fondness for bad jokes, whose big talk leads nowhere. But he is also naïve, unable to believe that the end of the road is near, and it is he who diligently develops the legend. Buck should have been insufferable,
But Hackman made him impossible to completely dislike, and the actor received his first Oscar nomination for the role.
The French Connection (1971)
After Bonnie and Clyde, Hackman did a fair bit of good work for a while, but he never got the lead role he deserved. That changed with the police thriller The French Connection, in which this most good-natured of actors played an absolute bastard with total authenticity.
What we know about the real-life detective Eddie Egan, the character on whom Popeye Doyle was based, suggests this is largely accurate, but it’s also clear that Hackman was uncomfortable in the role and was forced by director William Friedkin to make Doyle so unpleasant.
He’s utterly compelling, dominating the screen in the violent set-pieces. Still, here the character is one-note and you get the feeling Hackman was glad to have the opportunity to deepen the portrayal in the excellent 1975 sequel.
Bijuka (1973)
(by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman)
One of Hackman’s least-known films is also one of his finest. It’s a brilliant road movie in which Hackman and Al Pacino play two vagabonds who find a connection while travelling to Pittsburgh where they dream of opening a car wash.
It’s not easy to like Hackman’s character, Max, again – the road has made him shrill and difficult – but the two men push through their introduction, and the result is a bizarre, compelling tale of friendship that ends in tragedy. Hackman gets a chance to play a variety of roles here, from silent and gentle to, in one terrifying moment, violent. He even does a comic striptease.
The Conversation (1974)
(by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman)
The role of Harry Caul, the very reserved, painfully shy bugging specialist in anal, is surprising for Hackman, but it shows his talent as an actor. His relationship with director Francis Ford Coppola was stormy, but the result is one of Hackman’s finest moments. He controls his natural enthusiasm, presenting the character with painful and heartbreaking honesty.
Harry, like many neo-noir heroes, is not half as smart as he thinks he is and easily misunderstands the point, leading to the very tragedy he tries so hard to prevent.
The ending, when Harry is sitting in the apartment he has stripped bare in an attempt to escape an elusive bug, is surprisingly depressing.
Night Moves (1975)
(by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman)
Less famous than The Conversation but just as impressive, Night Moves is one of the great thrillers of the 1970s. It is a detective story in which Hackman plays Harry Moseby, a football player who becomes a private detective and gets caught up in suspicious activity in the Florida Keys.
He is in his best form, the rough humor concealing a deep sensitivity about his tumultuous marriage and his failings, and he relishes the literate, witty dialogue given by Alan Sharp and the chance to play opposite the wonderful Jennifer Warren, an actress with whom he has great chemistry.
Eureka (1983)
(by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman)
by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman
One of Nicolas Roeg’s biggest flops, it played for about a week in London and didn’t appear in the USA until three years later. But it’s one of his most complex and interesting films; a family saga, incorporating courtroom drama and a study of one man’s dream turned into a sunlit nightmare.
Hackman, alone on screen for long stretches of the first hour, plays an explorer, based on the real-life Harry Oakes, whose obsession with gold leads to his downfall.
Roeg has done a great job with cascading imagery, occult symbols and sudden violence, and Hackman complements him admirably with a complex performance that requires him to be 20 years younger.
Mississippi Burning (1988)
(by Veteran Actor Gene Hackman)
Alan Parker’s study of racism in the Deep South in 1964 is, to put it mildly, not a subtle film. Nor is it historically accurate as a description of the events that took place in Mississippi when two civil rights workers were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
But as for Gene Hackman’s performance, it’s hard to beat. This was his first leading role in several years and he dominates every role he has before him, whether it’s beating up Brad Dourif in a barbershop, joking with Willem Dafoe’s tough fellow agent, or gently flirting with Frances McDormand’s frightened Klan widow.
He brings warmth and humor to a film that would otherwise lack both.
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