Gene Hackman, a Hollywood giant And twice Oscar winner, he was found dead along with his wife and dog at his home in New Mexico on Wednesday, although researchers believe they can They have been dead for some time and the cause of death has not yet been revealed.
Hackman, 95, was a prolific actor who acted as a Variety of heroes and villains In films that include “The French Connection”, “Hoosiers” and “Superman” from the 1960s until its retirement in the early 2000s.
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Researchers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have not said if they have determined the cause of death.
According to an affidavit of the search warrant, a maintenance worker called the police after finding the bodies on Wednesday. He informed that the main door of the house was open when he arrived to do a routine job.
In a 911 call, the maintenance worker said he could see Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, 63, lying on the floor through a window, but could not enter.
Hackman’s body was discovered at the entrance of the house and Arakawa was found dead next to a space heater in a bathroom. In an countertop near Arakawa, the pills were dispersed next to an open recipe, according to the search warrant.
Police said they found the body of a German shepherd in the bathroom closet. Two other dogs were found alive in the property.
A dirty game was not suspected, authorities said, although a search warrant showed that the researchers thought the deaths were “of nature sufficiently suspicious to require an exhaustive search and research.”
The New Mexico Gas Co. tested gas lines in the house, but did not find signs of problems at that time, according to the order.
An researcher said people may not show sings of poisoning if they are exposed to gas leaks or carbon monoxide, but there are also no signs of a leak.
The results of the autopsies carried out in both agencies were not available on Thursday, authorities said.
Hackman appeared in a wide range of films He dates back to 1961, when he debuted in “Mad Dog Coll.” During the next four decades, his papers, including the archive Lex Luthor in the “Superman” films and the iconic coach in “Hoosiers” helped Hackman to a Hollywood pedestal.
Hackman’s performance as an obsessed and amoral police in the 1971 film “The French Connection” won an Oscar for best actor in a main role and was considered one of his defining roles. Hackman launched another Oscar for playing a sadistic sheriff in “Unforgiven” from 1992.
Hackman turned from the celebrity’s pomp and was considered the actor of an actor who focused on work and not on his image, dodging the appearances in the social circuit beyond some awards ceremonies.
As a child, the films offered Hackman an escape from a Tumultuous homemade life With an abusive father who left the family when Hackman was 13 years old.
Sympathy and admiration for Hackman Hollywood legends discharge including director Francis Ford Coppola, actor and director Clint Eastwood and actor Bill Murray.
Murray worked with Hackman in the 2001 film by director Wes Anderson “The Royal Tennenbaums.” Hackman gave the young directors like Anderson a difficult time but brought skills to the set, Murray said.
“I saw him once, as, 25 have been doing it perfectly with an actor who kept blowing him every time,” Murray, “Murray He told The Associated Press. “It was great. He was a great actor. “
Actor Cary Elwes called Hackman a “force of nature.”
“Growing up in his films was an absolute emotion for me,” Elwes said on Instagram. “Observing its remarkable installation and humanity on each role was something to contemplate.”
Everything that always wanted to learn about acting can be found in any of Hackman’s performances, actor Steve Toussaint published on Instagram.
″ ‘The French connection’. ‘Crimson Tide’ ‘, the conversation’. Gosh! I could continue, ”Toussaint wrote.
Arakawa He was born in Hawaii in December 1959 and grew in the state. He studied piano while growing in Honolulu and, as a six-year-old sixth grade student, he acted in youth concerts in front of thousands of first and second grade students in the concert hall of the International Honolulu Center, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported in 1971.
Arakawa attended the University of Southern California from 1981 to 1983, the university said in an email.
While I was in Los Angeles, she was an animator of Los Angeles Aztecs, a professional soccer team in the North American Soccer League, and worked as a production assistant in the television show “Card Sharks,” said Estrella de Honolulu advertising in 1981.
The classic training pianist met Hackman while working part -time in a California gym in the mid -1980s. They soon moved together and moved to Santa Fe for the end of the decade.
Arakawa was vice president of Pandora’s, a home decoration and furniture store in Santa Fe, according to New Mexico commercial records.
Its southwest -style ranch is at the top of a hill with views of the rock mountains away from Hollywood. The area is known as a preferred location between artists and a retirement for celebrities.
The house appeared in a 1990 article by Architectural digestion. The structure of four bedrooms and 8,700 square feet (808 square meters) in 6 acres (2.4 hectares) had an estimated market value of just over $ 4 million, according to the tax records to the property of the Santa Fe County.
Hackman often looked around the historic state capital. His hobbies included paint, diving in deep waters and, later in life, writing novels. The couple enjoyed seeing DVD that Arakawa would rent, Hackman told Film magazine. Empire in a 2009 interview.
In his last years, Hackman was seen much less in public. The documents reported Hackman sightings in mundane stages, such as when the New York Post detailed the former actor who pumped gas and obtained a chicken sandwich in Wendy’s in 2023.
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Associated Press Claire Rush reporter in Portland, Oregon, and Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyoming, contributed to this report.
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