Actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their New Mexico home, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office told CNN. He was 95 years old.
The cause of their deaths has not been confirmed, but it is not believed to be someone else's fault, a spokeswoman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office told CNN Thursday morning Denise Womack-Avila.
Deputies responded to a request for a social check at the home Wednesday around 1:45 p.m. and found Hackman, Arakawa and the dog dead, Womack-Avila said.
Hackman's performances in films like French Connection, Indiana players, The Irreconcilables a Company have elevated his character roles to leading roles.
Hackman's best roles often featured conflicted authority figures or surprisingly smart white-collar villains. For his role as New York City cop Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in French Connection from 1971, the detective who gets his man, but at a high price, won an Oscar. His expert tracking in the film Interview ...from 1974, he's single-minded to the point of obsession and losing perspective.
He was 36 years old when he broke through in the movie Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, a role he won after losing the role of Mr. Robinson in Graduate. Before that, he served in the Marine Corps, hanging around California and New York - sometimes with his roommate, a movie star Graduate Dustin Hoffman - and worked odd jobs, including truck driver and janitor.
Hackman retired at the age of 74. He had lived in Santa Fe for the past several decades.
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