Oscar Winner Gene Hackman And Wife Found Dead

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports:

Legendary actor, two-time Oscar winner and author Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead Wednesday afternoon in their home in the Santa Fe Summit community northeast of the city.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed just after midnight Thursday the couple had died, along with their dog.

Mendoza said in an interview Wednesday evening there was no immediate indication of foul play. He did not provide a cause of death or say when the couple might have died.

Deadline Hollywood reports:

The 95-year-old Hollywood legend won Oscars for The French Connection (1971) and Unforgiven (1992), and was Oscar-nominated for roles in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Mississippi Burning (1988).

Throughout the 1970s, Hackman was one of Hollywood’s most prolific and popular actors. Highlights of that period include the 1973 Cannes d’Or winning comedy-drama Scarecrow, in which he and Al Pacino play two drifters who travel from California to Pittsburgh with dreams of setting up a business.

Such a sad end.