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Gene Hackman, Academy Award–Winning Actor, Dead at 95
He, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Movie star Gene Hackman, his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were all found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 26, per the New York Times. “I was given so little encouragement that I kind of, even in my insensitive state at that time, understood that at least the academic side of acting was not for me.” He then moved to New York, where he, along with his friends Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall, slowly began their part of the revolutionary new cinematic world of the 1960s and ’70s. Hackman’s breakout role was as Buck Barrow in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, a controversial movie at the time, but which garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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