Gene Hackman, wife, and dog dead

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Gene Hackman, Oscar-Winning Star of ‘The French Connection,’ Dies at 95

His superb body of work includes 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'I Never Sang for My Father,' 'The Conversation,' 'Hoosiers' and 'Unforgiven.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

My Gene Hackman favs are:

Mississippi Burning
Enemy of the State
Crimson Tide
The Firm

 

[Dodger12]

Great actor and another icon of my youth is gone. RIP Gene and family.......

 

[yimyammer]

Odd, gas leak? Suicide?

 

[dbair1967]

Gene Hackman, Oscar-Winning Star of ‘The French Connection,’ Dies at 95

His superb body of work includes 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'I Never Sang for My Father,' 'The Conversation,' 'Hoosiers' and 'Unforgiven.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

My Gene Hackman favs are:

Mississippi Burning
Enemy of the State
Crimson Tide
The Firm

My list is the same.

He was a great actor. RIP to him, his wife and dog.

 

[dbair1967]

Odd, gas leak? Suicide?

Maybe carbon monoxide, so far seems like they are slow to release any details other than they said "foul play is not suspected"

 

[Doomsday]

My list is the same.

Y'all can't possibly be omitting Unforgiven, Hoosiers and Absolute Power can you?

 

[dbair1967]

Y'all can't possibly be omitting Unforgiven, Hoosiers and Absolute Power can you?

Those are obviously awesome too. He has a ton.

He was in Poseiden Adventure, and was Lex Luther in the Superman movies (Christopher Reeve versions)

Runaway Jury was another really good one that would be high on my list.

 

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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog are found dead in their New Mexico home

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead when they preformed a welfare check, a spokesperson said.

apnews.com

 

[dbair1967]

 

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It took awhile for the authorities to identify the bodies as being Gene and his wife, as they had been there (deceased) for some time ( 2 weeks??).

 

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Hackman once explained his creative approach by saying, “Each scene, I look for something not written down.”

 

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As to Gene knowing whether his wife passed or not... I would consider that they had a large enough house that Gene had his own bathroom and walk in shower for his needs, and that his wife used another separate bathroom with all of her stuff there.

So it may be that Gene never went to the part of the house that had the bathroom she used.

People that suffer from Dementia don't know what day it is. They know it's daytime or nighttime.

Just a tragic thing that she died suddenly from a disease. And with her gone, that likely led to Gene not getting his meds, and to his eventual demise.

 

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It's just so horrible. It echoes his last line in "Unforgiven."

"I don't deserve to die like this. I was building a house."

MUNNY: "Deservin's got nothing to do with it."