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Gene Hackman and His Wife Found Dead

Known as an actor’s actor, Hackman was a two-time Oscar winner who was sought out by top directors

By Ellen Gamerman

Gene Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner whose more than 80 films included “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The French Connection,” and his wife have been found dead near Santa Fe, N.M., authorities said.

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Denise Womack-Avila said officers were dispatched to an address where they found Hackman, 95, Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog deceased. She said foul play isn’t suspected but didn’t elaborate and that an investigation is under way.

Hackman was known as an actor’s actor, sought out by movie stars and top directors who craved the experience of working with him. With a roughed-up face that defied Hollywood glamour, he helped carve a path for unconventional leading men who in another era might have been pigeonholed as side characters.

His signature role was that of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, the brutish narcotics police officer in the 1971 thriller “The French Connection.” Director William Friedkin recalled Hackman’s reluctance to dive into the character’s violence and racism. “I knew I had to get him angry,” the filmmaker said at a 2016 event with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Friedkin said instead of yelling “cut” he would try to get in his star’s head. “I would say, ‘Pal, you better get a day job, you better look for something else because this isn’t working.’ ” The trick worked. Hackman temporarily quit the film, but he went on to win a best actor Oscar for the role.

Hackman sometimes spoke about his father abandoning his family when he was 13 years old. Driving away, he gave his son a casual wave while the boy played in the street. He instantly knew his dad wasn’t coming back. “Maybe that’s why I became an actor,” Hackman told Vanity Fair in 2004. “I doubt I would have become so sensitive to human behavior if that hadn’t happened to me as a child—if I hadn’t realized how much one small gesture can mean.”

Recounting the story in 2001 on the TV show “Inside the Actors Studio,” an otherwise restrained Hackman paused to fight back tears. “It’s only been 65 years or so,” he said.

Hackman might never have made “Bonnie and Clyde” had he not just been quickly fired from “The Graduate,” where he had been cast as Mr. Robinson. Warren Beatty, the star of 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” who had worked with Hackman on the film “Lilith” several years earlier, helped him land the role of Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow.

Gene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, Calif., on Jan. 30, 1930. He grew up in Danville, Ill., a blue-collar town, where his family lived with his grandmother. Hackman’s father, who the actor said would sometimes dole out physical punishment in a little cardboard hideaway the boy made for himself in the basement of their home, operated the printing press for a local paper. When Hackman’s Canadian-born mother, a waitress, took him to the movies to see his favorite actors—including James Cagney and Errol Flynn—he was transported. She told him maybe one day he would appear on the big screen. She died in a house fire in 1962, two years before his first significant movie role.

At 16 years old, Hackman lied about his age and joined the Marines, serving in China while his friends were juniors in high school. After the military, he worked a series of odd jobs, including as a furniture mover and doorman in New York City. In 1956, already in his late 20s and married, he moved to California to take acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse.

At 6-foot-2 and feeling like a “big lummox kind of person” with the face of “your everyday mine worker”—as he once told Vanity Fair—he didn’t fit in with actors he called “walking surfboards.” He befriended another actor there, an awkward 19-year-old outsider named Dustin Hoffman. The two sometimes banged bongos on the roof of the theater. Their peers voted them “Least Likely to Succeed.”

Hackman adopted what would become a lifelong practice of the Stanislavsky Method of acting. He often credited his acting teacher, George Morrison, for the practice of creating a character as well as the breathing exercises before performing that he used over the course of his career.

The actor described resistance in Hollywood to Konstantin Stanislavsky’s techniques.

“A lighting guy came up to me and said, ‘Are you one of those Stanislavsky’s?’ Like I was a bug or something,” he said on “Inside the Actors Studio.” “You’ve got to be tough and say, ‘This is the way I work.’ ”

After leaving movies in 2004 with the comedy “Welcome to Mooseport,” where he played a retired U.S. president, Hackman devoted time to writing novels. He married classical pianist Arakawa in 1991. He is survived by three children with his first wife, Faye Maltese.