RIP Gene Hackman

[BmillsSkier]

RIP, Royal, you were one of my favorites.

[Gepeto]

Started with Popeye Doyle for me.
NY, Cocaine, shady cops...


Wife and Dog die with him sounds... ahh... hmm?

[Meadow Skipper]

I always hoped I’d see him around town here but never did.

A consummate performer. RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...smid=url-share

[Danno]

What an incredible actor, what an incredible career. RIP.

[LegoSkier]

One of my favorites. So many good movies and roles. Foul play not suspected. Wonder if it is CO poisoning. Sucks either way. RIP

[Ted Striker]

Gepeto: Wife and Dog die with him sounds... ahh... hmm?

Guessing carbon monoxide

[mcski]

I’ve heard CO reported. But I’m suspect about it not being intentional CO poisoning as he had mentioned being over being old

[ötzi]

Such a great actor, RIP to both of them. I can't believe he was 95, wow.

[Gepeto]

Guessing carbon monoxide

more hmm[emoji780]?

Gene Hackman and Wife’s Deaths Ruled ‘Suspicious’ in Search Warrant: ‘No Obvious Signs of a Gas Leak’ and ‘Thorough Investigation’ Required https://flip.it/W-vuej from Flipboard.

[exsparky]

He has been in a ton of stuff but a good one you may have never seen is "The Conversation"

[stuckathuntermtn]

Sad to read.
Check your monoxide detectors.

[RShea]

Really a strange one- found after someone requested a health check when they came to the home and found a door open. Both had been dead for some time from reports I've heard. Pills found out in the house (which at his age and these days could be nothing at all depending on what they were), and they were in 2 different rooms. One dog (out of 3) was also found dead....

[Meadow Skipper]

Copied from the latest report in the Santa Fe paper.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...1c4c042f4.html

Report offers questions but few answers on Hackman's and wife's deaths at Santa Fe home By Nicholas Gilmore, Feb 27, 2025 Updated 10 mins ago

A search warrant affidavit submitted by Santa Fe County sheriff's deputies offers few answers in the deaths of acclaimed actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, who were both found dead in their house just outside Santa Fe Wednesday afternoon.

The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 63, were each found lying on the floor in separate rooms of their Hyde Park-area home, the affidavit says, and one of their three dogs was found in a closet. The door to the home was ajar.

Investigators indicated both showed signs of having been dead for some time.

Sheriff's deputies wrote there were no signs of either carbon monoxide poisoning or a gas leak at the home after testing by both firefighters and gas utility staff Wednesday, although the affidavit also suggests the possibility either happened.

The lead investigator, Detective Roy Arndt, of the sheriff's office, noted "individuals exposed to gas leaks (or poisonous gas) can suffer immediate and unexpected death" and "might not show apparent injuries." Law enforcement officials talk outside the home of actor Gene Hackman on Thursday just outside Santa Fe. Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were found dead in the home a day earlier.

Arakawa was found on the floor in the bathroom next to the countertop, investigators wrote, with a space heater on the floor next to her head. A deputy "suspected the heater could have fallen in the event the female abruptly fell to the ground," the affidavit says.

An orange pill bottle was opened on the countertop, with pills scattered on the counter, sheriff's deputies noted.

One of the couple's dogs — a German Shepherd — was found deceased in a bathroom closet 10 to 15 feet from Arakawa. The document does not specify whether the closet door was open or closed.

Hackman's body was found on the floor of a mud room near the kitchen in the home. Investigators wrote it appeared Hackman had "suddenly fallen," with sunglasses on the floor next to him. The detective wrote in the affidavit there were no signs of forced entry into the home, but the circumstances surrounding the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation," noting the pill bottle, space heater and ajar front door.

One of their dogs was running loose on the property when deputies arrived, and the third dog was found — alive — next to Arakawa.

[Brownski]

He was great in so many roles over the years. His filmography must span what? like sixty years? One role that really stands out to me is as the sheriff in Unforgiven. Just brilliant. He also made a really great under appreciated western in the 70s called Bite the Bullet. That was a really fun movie. Weird end but at least he had a long life.

[stealurface831]

any word on possible vegan sith transgender death cult involvement?

[The Reverend Floater]

Alec Baldwin strikes again. That guy is ruthless.

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[refried]

He was a nice guy, I used to work on his boat when he owned an island by Orcas (WA), he eventually gave the island away to a summer camp.

[garyfromterrace]

Popeye Doyle. And so much more. Damn, so long Gene.

[Gepeto]

Re-watched the French Connection. It was H, not coke. He carried the film, which has not survived the test of time - a period piece. Production value was poor.

Tidbit
A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described Hackman, Hoffman, and Robert Duvall as struggling California-born actors and close friends, sharing New York apartments in various two-person combinations in the 1960s

Would rather it be accidental than something nefarious. Toxicology report should provide some answers

[mcski]

Hoffman and Hackman were roommates in NYC

[Cono Este]

Crimson tide, the package, BAT 21, i think Bonnie and Clyde was his first movie.

He seemed a real modest guy later in life.

Rip

[whyturn]

Opposite Clint Eastwood as the bad Sherrif was a great role model


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[J. Barron DeJong]

Jeez.

Wife died of hantavirus. A week later Gene dies of heart disease. Living with her dead body in the bathroom, maybe not realizing she was dead because of severe Alzheimer's.

https://apnews.com/article/gene-hack...a39a81b46dbdf9

[Danno]

And the dog that died was in a crate, I believe, which explains why the one dog died and not the other two

[Meadow Skipper]

Gawd, that whole thing is so sad.