The famous actor and his wife found dead
Two -time Oscar winner Gena Hackman and his wife pianist Betsy Arakawa police found a dead at their home in the US city of Santa Fe. Police also found their dog in their home, according to local authorities, there were no noticeable signs of violence on the corpses. The player died at the age of 95, his wife was 63 years old. The couple, who married in 1991, was found in a house that is part of the Old Sunset Trail private community.
The door to the stars opened to Geno Hackman in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde movie, considered the most influential, if not the first movie of the movement New Hollywood or American new wave. Hackman has appeared, among other things, in the films French Link (1971), for the enemy's line (2001) and the wiretar (1974), and is also known for his role Lexa luthor In the movie Superman (1978). The Oscar received for the role of New York's detective Jimmy Doyl – Popaja (Editor) and the little Bill Daggett (Undisputed).
Army and Cymrum with Stars
Hackman was born in the US state of California 30. In January 1930. The family often migrated and settled in Middle West, in the state of Illinois, where his father printed a local diary Commercial News In the then flowering mining city Danville.
The Gene under the home roof did not stay very long. After a short time, he hanged high school on a wedge and applied to the Navy Infantry or Marines. He spent almost five years with them. He was first installed as a radio operator in China, and after the victory of the Communists in the Civil War there in 1949, he worked in Japan and Hawaii.
Role that brought him an Oscar. Photo: Press Release
However, Gene Hackman never intended to be a career soldier. Even when he saw the first movie at the age of ten, he decided to be an actor.
After a military career, he did various jobs and finally began to follow his acting dreams. He returned to California and took the first stage steps at the Pasadena Playhouse, who is also an acting school. With a colleague Dustin Hoffman the classmates proclaimed them the least promising in the year. They moved to New York together, where another Californian with acting ambitions joined them as a roommate, Robert Duvall.
The role that brought him an Oscar was only given as sixth choice
In the 60s, he began to receive minor roles, first in more secluded theaters, then on television and finally on the big screen. He spent 1967 movie ice in the basic film of the new Hollywood Bonnie and Clyde when he received an Oscar nomination for a side role for his role as his older brother Banda Barrow Barrow – Buck.
At the time, Hackman was already a mature actor, and with his 187 centimeters of height and rough strokes, he was perfect for the cans of heroes in the films of the new Hollywood. After a role in the drama, I never sang my father (I Never Sang for My Father) in 1970, for which he again received a nomination for a side acting Oscar, he received a year later, allegedly as a sixth choice of director William Friedkinthe role of New York's detective Jimmy Doyla – Popaja.
Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the Bonnie and Clyde movie. Photo: Ho Reuters
The French Federation (The French Connection, 1971) on the American Detective Popaj, who fought against the connection of the Corsican and Sicilian mafia and five Italian-American mafia families from New York, was an extraordinary commercial success. Critics also overlooked him, as he received five Oscars, three of them the most important, for the best film, directing and Hackman for the best major male role.
Probably more because of the payment as a serious desire, at the end of 70, he also played the Lex Luther villain in three films about Superman.
After the success of the French Union, he played a number of unforgettable roles. To portray the brutal sheriff of « Little Bill » Daggett, the main villain in Neoverstren Clint Eastwood unpaved (Unforgiven, 1992), received an Oscar for the best side role.
