‘Believable’ Gene Hackman was Hollywood’s consummate everyman
The actor never fit the mould of a Hollywood movie star but became one by playing seemingly ordinary characters with deceptive subtlety, intensity and charm.
Gene Hackman had a gift to be able to peel back the layers from characters who carried the weight of middle age. LA Times
Gene Hackman, who never fit the mould of a Hollywood movie star but became one all the same, playing seemingly ordinary characters with deceptive subtlety, intensity and often charm in some of the most noted films of the 1970s and ’80s, has died, authorities in New Mexico said on Thursday. He was 95.
Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found dead on Wednesday afternoon at a home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they had been living, according to a statement from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department. The cause of death was unclear and under investigation.
