RIP Gene Hackman

[edwin drood]

Hackman, his wife and dog all found dead in their home. ??
Great actor, from The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde, Superman, Hoosiers, Unforgiven...

[3dender]

Extremely sad... probably either CO or CO2 poisoning, given the dog too. R.I.P.

[edwin drood]

Extremely sad... probably either CO or CO2 poisoning, given the dog too. R.I.P.

I was thinking CO as well.

[Pink Freud]

A few years ago Bill Paxton died the day before the Oscars. I hope their crew, despite the short notice, can put together a nice tribute for Hackman for broadcast Sunday night and not just lump him in alongside the usual "In Memoriam" segment of long-forgotten D-list actors, technical pros, and publicists who died in the last year.

[FrankTheTank]

One of my favorite actors, the guy could do it all. Look at his body of work, pretty amazing. Bad guys, good guys, "normal" every day guys, workers, coaches, etc. He was so good in Unforgiven, probably a top-20 movie of mine. RIP

[bud white]

Santa Fe was not spared from the brutal cold we've been dealing with, so a malfunctioning furnace (coupled with the flu season) could certainly play a role. (CO poisoning symptoms can be mistaken for flu - nausea, headache, etc).

[Wentzville]

He was great in Mississippi Burning.

[bud white]

He was great in Mississippi Burning.

And though it came out a few years after Hunt For Red October, Crimson Tide was a very good and overlooked movie. Some real star power in that one. Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortinson, James Gandolfini..

The story paralleled a real incident that occurred during the Cuban Missile Crisis where a Soviet attack sub came close to firing a nuclear torpedo at US ships. (We were much closer to nuclear war than anyone imagined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59)

Tony Scott directed. Produced by Bruckheimer and Simpson. The era of action movies.

But in the end, I think my favorite Hackman movie is Unforgiven.

[Dicktar2023]

Beginning to look suspicious...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ge ... rcna193960

[Pink Freud]

Here's a wonderful, warm requiem by the N. Y. Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/obit ... =url-share

And one from the L. A. Times: https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... ckman-dead

[Pink Freud]

He was so good in Unforgiven, probably a top-20 movie of mine. RIP

Same here...and I'm not even a fan of westerns, but that one was dynamite; well worth its Best Picture Oscar and Hackman's win for BSA. And Clint will be 95 in late May; I just recently watched his excellent "Juror No. 2".

[Pink Freud]

Hackman's great supporting role in "Bonnie & Clyde" was the very first time I ever went to a movie theater without my parents; but with my 8th grade buddy Vince, at the old Rio Theater behind Lombardo's Restaurant in north St. Louis. We both still remember you could hear a pin drop at the shocking denouement.

The Oscar-winner who played Hackman's wailing wife Blanche, Estelle Parsons, directed my very first actual Broadway in Times Square stage show, the final dress for "Salome" at the Barrymore Theater, with Al Pacino, Marisa Tomei, David Straithairn, and Dianne Wiest, leading the cast in a Q&A with the audience afterward.

"Bonnie & Clyde" was good for the actors' life expectancies: Hackman lived to 95; Parsons is 97; Evans Evans (Gene Wilder's onscreen girlfriend) lived to be 91; Warren Beatty is 87; and Faye Dunaway 84.

[MikoTython]

Hackman's great supporting role in "Bonnie & Clyde" was the very first time I ever went to a movie theater without my parents; but with my 8th grade buddy Vince, at the old Rio Theater behind Lombardo's Restaurant in north St. Louis. We both still remember you could hear a pin drop at the shocking denouement.

The Oscar-winner who played Hackman's wailing wife Blanche, Estelle Parsons, directed my very first actual Broadway in Times Square stage show, the final dress for "Salome" at the Barrymore Theater, with Al Pacino, Marisa Tomei, David Straithairn, and Dianne Wiest, leading the cast in a Q&A with the audience afterward.

"Bonnie & Clyde" was good for the actors' life expectancies: Hackman lived to 95; Parsons is 97; Evans Evans (Gene Wilder's onscreen girlfriend) lived to be 91; Warren Beatty is 87; and Faye Dunaway 84.

RIP, one of the greats. Favorite role : playing the Indiana HS Basketball Coach

On a tangent, funny story about Faye Dunaway's interaction w/ Michael McDonald, of MadTV reknown :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTpFqoS4hyY

[Heavy Early]

I saw "Young Frankenstein" when I was a teenager and didn't know for several years that Gene played the blind man.
It turned out to be one of the funniest scenes in the movie. For someone known as dramatic actor, he had great comedic chops too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXGzO2a ... eSchneider

[edwin drood]

More facts coming out today. The wife tested negative for carbon monoxide. Prescription meds were found spilled on a bathroom counter near her body, but they were thyroid and heart meds, not opioids or other similar depressants. Hackman had pacemaker so it's expected that the exact time of death will be available shortly. Dead possibly a week.

[Pink Freud]

More facts coming out today. The wife tested negative for carbon monoxide. Prescription meds were found spilled on a bathroom counter near her body, but they were thyroid and heart meds, not opioids or other similar depressants. Hackman had pacemaker so it's expected that the exact time of death will be available shortly. Dead possibly a week.

I understand their German Shepherd was in a crate, which may have saved a really gruesome discovery: The poor dog probably died of starvation and dehydration. With both Hackmans being dead for several days, I'd hate to see what may have happened there had the big dog not been crated.