The sheriff of Santa Fe, Adan Mendoza, confirmed that Gene Hackman And his spouse is dead. The corpse of their dog was also found alongside the couple.
Mendoza assured that there is no direct evidence indicating participation in the event of third parties. “The only thing I can say is that we are in the process of preliminary investigation and we are waiting for the approval of the search order,” said Santa Fe sheriff quoted by “The Sun”.
Hackman has had two Oscars – for the roles in “French connector” and “No forgiveness” and four golden globes, two BAFTA awards and a Berlin silver bear.
“There is no such thing as a uniform career. The actor’s life is a band of ups and downs. It is important to be able to get up and wait for the next up after falling,” he said in 2005 in an interview with Stopklatka.
Eugene Allen Hackman was born on January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino (California) in the family of Eugene Ezra Hackman and Anna Lydia Elizabeth née Gray – Father worked in the local printing house of the newspaper “Commercial News”. Hackman lived for a short time in Storm Lake, Iowa. In 1945 he enlisted to the Marine Infantry Corps (US Marines). He completed the communication course and served as a radio operator at American military bases in China, Hawaii and Japan. In 1951 he ended his service and returned to the United States.
“I came to New York and worked at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Times Square, where I opened the door to guests in a stupid uniform,” he recalled.
In 1956 he went to California. He was employed at the Pasadena Playhouse theater in California, where he made friends with a beginner actor Dustin Hoffman. Film historians emphasize that At that time, they were perceived as “weak”, “non -promising” candidates for actors. After the failures, they went to New York. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, Hackman received the first engaging to supporting roles in television films and series. At the end of the 1950s, he received the first roles in the performances of the New York Theater The Premise at Bleecker Street, and later in Morosco and Belasco Theater at Broadway.
The success of the performance Muriel Resnik and Julius J. Epstein “Any Wednesday” on Broadway opened his way to film roles. In 1960, Hackman played the episodic role of a policeman in the film biography of the gangster and paid murderer Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll (premiere of 1961) directed by Burt Balabana. In the first half of the 1960s appeared, among others in the films “Lilith” (1964) by Robert Rossen and “Hawaii” by George R. Hill.
A breakthrough in a career Hackman was the role of Buck Barrow in “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penna. Behind her the actor was nominated for the Oscar for the first time.
In 1970 he played the role of policeman Jimmy “Popeye” who was fighting with the mafia, who worked on drug metastasis from Marseille to New York. For the role in “French connector” directed by William Friedkin He received an Oscar in the category of the best actor and gained the status of a star.
In one of the interviews he said: “I was trained as an actor, not a star. I was taught to play roles, not to deal with fame, agents, lawyers and press. “” New York Times Magazine “called him” Hollywood an unusual average man. “
In 1973, he played the role of Max Mill in the moral “Scarecrow” directed by Jerry Scatzberg. Critics highly assessed the workshop of Hackman and Ala Pacino accompanying him. Before starting photos, the actors characterized the tramps and hitchhiking throughout California.
IN “Conversation” Francis Ford Coppoli Hackman played a wiretapping specialist, Harry Caula. It wakes up in him, and he becomes eavesdropping on himself. Thriller Coppoli received an Oscar nomination and Golden Globes, in May 1974 – the Golden Palm at the 27th International Film Festival in Cannes. Critics compared the “conversation” to another outstanding work of world cinema – “enlargement” by Antonioni.
On April 26, 1976, photos for the war drama began in the Dutch Devermer “One bridge too far” directed by Richard Attenborough. Hackman created in this film the figure of the Polish general and commander of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, Stanisław Sosabowski. In 1977, the film story of the unsuccessful Allied landing and fighting at Arnhem received Bafta British awards in four categories.
Director Richard Donner involved him as a scientist-leader Luthor Lex in the cinema version “Superman” (1978).
In the 70s, Hackman achieved the greatest successes. He showed that he also has a comedy talent that appeared in “Young Frankenstein” Mela Brooksa. Another decade brought Hackman roles in the films: “Reds”, “Under the fire”, the desire to power “,” No exit “and the sequels of” Superman “.
In December 1988, a film hit the cinema screens “Mississippi on fire” Alan Parker. For the role of the FBI agent, Rupert Anderson, Hackman received a silver bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin.
In turn, in Antytyrterno “No forgiveness” (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood Hackman played the role of the sheriff of “Little Bill” Daggetta. This Creation brought him the most important awards in the film world with Oscar at the forefront.
In the 1990s, the actor played, among others in movies “Wyatt Earp”, “Geronimo: American legend”, “Business”, “Crimson tide”, “Fast and worried”, “Public enemy”, “Dusk” and “Suspicious”.
In 2001, he hit the screens of world cinemas “Behind the enemy line”in which Hackman created the figure of Admiral Reiggart. Later he appeared on the set “Jury” (2003) Gary Fleder.
Hackman’s last film was “Welcome to Mooseport” by Donald Petri (2004). He played the role of the former US president and at the same time a candidate for the mayor of a small town on the east coast of the USA.
Hackman was also a writer. Together with the submarine Daniel Lenihan, he wrote the novels “Wake of the Perdido Star” (1999), “Justice for None” (2004) and “Escape from Andersonville” (2008).