R.I.P. Gene Hackman (95)

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Gene Hackman, the versatile leading man renowned for his smoldering performance as hard-nosed New York City narc Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, has died. He was 95.

The much-admired two-time Oscar winner, who played gritty and cantankerous characters with a virile, edgy intensity, and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a statement to the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, Adan Mendoza, the Santa Fe County Sheriff in New Mexico, said: “We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon at their residence on Sunset Trail.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...french-connection-actor-95-893902-1236148755/

My Gene Hackman favs are:

Mississippi Burning
Enemy of the State
Crimson Tide
The Firm

 

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Just read about this. Well, he had a great run!
R.I.P, Mr. Luthor

The story I read includes his dog among the deceased. That makes me wonder if it was a gas leak, or carbon monoxide.

 

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Gene Hackman, the versatile leading man renowned for his smoldering performance as hard-nosed New York City narc Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, has died. He was 95.

The much-admired two-time Oscar winner, who played gritty and cantankerous characters with a virile, edgy intensity, and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a statement to the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, Adan Mendoza, the Santa Fe County Sheriff in New Mexico, said: “We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon at their residence on Sunset Trail.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...french-connection-actor-95-893902-1236148755/

My Gene Hackman favs are:

Mississippi Burning
Enemy of the State
Crimson Tide
The Firm

I got to add Unforgiven to that list playing opposite Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman great movie