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An actor who imbued charm or intensity to any role he played, Gene Hackman swallowed the scenery. Here are some of the ...

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead when they performed a welfare check, ...

A two-time Academy Award winner and a dogged Everyman in many of his roles, Hackman was remembered by collaborators and ...

Philip D’Antoni, producer of the “The French Connection,” holds the Oscar for best picture, from left, Gene Hackman holds his ...

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By The Associated Press Gruff in demeanor yet much beloved, Gene Hackman was one of the finest actors of his generation. The ...

Though he’d had small roles in movies and on television throughout the early 1960s (he’d been a Marine before that, and had ...

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and ...

He was found dead alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 63, a classical pianist and his second wife, according to the Santa Fe ...

Gene Hackman had a rugged, dominating and commanding presence on screen, known for his emotionally honest, raw and fierce ...

Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, died of unknown causes alongside ...