Gene Hackman is dead: this is how actress and celebrities mourn

The US actor and two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman (95) and his wife Betsy Arakawa are dead. The corpses were found on Wednesday, as several US media, citing the Santa Fe district, reported in the US state in New Mexico.

A spokeswoman for the sheriff said ABC News and CNN that the couple had been found in a social control after a neighbor reported who was concerned about the well -being of the two. The couple’s dog was also found dead.

Active colleagues and other celebrities have only now experienced from the death of the Hollywood star-when the news broke out, it was still in the middle of the night in the USA.

George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in the series “Spaceship Enterprise”, wrote as one of the first on the platform X: “We lost one of the real giants of the canvas. Gene Hackman could play everyone. Live forever. “

The British television presenter Piers Morgan wrote to report Hackman’s death at X: “What an incredibly sad end of a remarkable life. Quiet in peace.”

In another, Morgan writes: “Apart from the very sad circumstances of his death, Gene Hackman was one of the greatest actors of all time and brilliant in everything he has ever done, from French Connection and unforgives to Mississippi Burning, The Conversation and Superman.

US director Francis Ford Coppola, who worked with Hackman in 1974 for the classic “The Conversation”, spoke of the “loss of a great artist”. “I mourn for him and celebrate his existence and contribution,” he emphasized. The British director Edgar Wright (“Baby Driver”) simply wrote to a photo of Hackman: “The biggest …” it said: “We are sad to hear that the much celebrated actor Gene Hackman died at the age of 95.”

Hackman played his first major role in 1964 in the “Lilith” strip with Warren Beatty, who hired him three years later for “Bonnie and Clyde”. As Clydes Gangster brother, Hackman received his first Oscar nomination as the best supporting actor.

After his breakthrough as an Oscar -winning main actor with “French Connection” (1971), the career quickly went uphill. In “Scarecrow” he plays a leaner, in “The Conversation” (“The Dialog”) a paranoid listening specialist. He made it to Hollywood’s A list with cash crowds such as the John Grisham film adaptation “The company” and “Crimson Tide”. For his role as a unscrupulous sheriff Little Bill Daggett in the Clint-Eeastwood western “Merciless”, Hackman received the Oscar as the best supporting actor in 1993.

However, the character actor had withdrawn from Hollywood decades ago. He retired at the age of almost 75. However, he wrote books, such as the civil war novel “Escape from Andersonville” (2008) and the police thriller “Pursuit” (2013) – and kept fit until old age. With his second wife Betsy Arakawa, he lived away from the dream factory, in rural Santa Fe. Hackman had three children with his first wife.