Although it became only an actor at the age of 30, Hackman became one of the most profitable stars in Hollywood.
The American actor Gene Hackman, who died at the age of 95, began his late career, but became one of Hollywood’s most paid stars.
Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and one of the couple’s dogs were found dead at home in Santa Fe, in the American state of New Mexico.
The County Police Station of Santa Fe has confirmed that he had been found “Dead Wednesday” (26/2), but that the police “do not believe that there is a crime involved”.
Hackman had an illustrious career of five decades as an actor. He won two Oscars and was appointed for three others, playing violent men and participating in comedies with the same competence.
It was even described how to have the face of a truck driver and interpreted equally main or secondary documents.
Hackman gained fame with the movie Bonnie and Clyde: a barrage of bullets (1967) And the work rarely ends in the following decades. He starred in movies like Operation France (1971), Mississippi on flames (1988) and in the franchise Superman.
Hackman withdrew in 2004 on the advice of his cardiologist and since then he has given very few interviews. He decided to keep a calm life in New Mexico with his second wife, Betsy.
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in 1930 in San Bernardino, California.
He had a nomadic childhood. His parents divorced and lived with several relatives, until he settled with his maternal grandmother in Danville, in the Illinois.
His father left home when Hackman was still a teenager.
“When the young Gene was 13 years old, his father abandoned his family while his son played on the street”, according to the journalist Robert Berkvist (1932-2023), from the New York Times.
“Hackman recalled years after his father, when he passed him, gave a wave,” continues Berkvist. “” I hadn’t realized how small a small gesture can mean, “he said.” Maybe that’s why I became an actor. “
Hackman’s mother died in 1962. She died burned after setting fire to the mattress with a cigarette after drinking.
As a teenager, Hackman was anxious to emancipate. He lied to his age and joined the 16 -year -old Marines. There he served for about five years.
Hackman was highlighted in China, where he was a radio operator, who later led him to work as Disc Jockey.
“I have difficulties with the direction because I have problems with the authority,” he said about his short military career. “I wasn’t a good marine.”
After quickly studying journalism and television production at the University of Illinois, Gene Hackman left his studies to join the Pasadena Playhouse Theater in California in the 1960s.
Despite the suspicion of suspicion, the two actors went to New York, where they shared an apartment with another aspiring dramatic actor, Robert Duvall. Hackman got some small documents and completed his entrances with a series of strange jobs.
He often said how a former sergeant found him out of a hotel in New York, where he worked as a porter. Recognizing his former subordinate, the sergeant exclaimed that he knew that Hackman would never come anywhere.
There was also a time when he worked on the night cleaning of the Chrysler building in New York. Hackman later said this was the worst job he had in his life.
But he also interpreted the roles in light comedies, Broadway and outside, which led to small works on television and then to the cinema.
His first role on the big screen was in the film Lilith (1964), with Warren Beatty. And, hit by his performance, Beatty climbed Hackman as his brother Buck Barrow, in the film Bonnie and Clyde: a barrage of bullets.
Gene Hackman was appointed for the Oscar for the best support actor for Bonnie and Clyde And again from My father, a stranger (1970).
Until he arrived Operation France. And that role transformed him.
Hackman played the independent Narcotics agent Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, who pursues a French drug trafficker. The most remarkable scene was the famous sequence in the New York subway.
The performance was worth the best Oscar actor and repeated the role in Operation in France 2 (1975).
From that moment on, Gene Hackman has collected shots. Both in your acclaimed critics – like The conversation (1974) or An offer in the dark (1975) – or in public successes, such as Poseidon’s destination (1972), Hackman became the attraction at the box office.
Consolidated as one of the tubes of the big screen, Gene Hackman easily adapted to the comedy in The young Frankenstein (1974) and interpreted the overheating of the super -market Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) e Superman 2 (1980).
Hackman was so shaken by the way the producers of Superman They treated his director, Richard Donner (1930-2021), who refused to be part of the third film of the series. But he participated in Superman 4: looking for peace (1987).
The 80s were another decade of success for Gene Hackman, in particular for their powerful performance in Mississippi on flamesthat a new indication for the Oscar was worth for the best actor. He played an FBI agent who was responsible, together with a novice colleague, to investigate the racist murder of supporters of civil rights in the early 60s.
Director Alan Parker (1944-2020) qualified hackman of “very intuitive and instinctive actor”.
Hackman won another best non -protagonist Oscar actor in 1993 for the film The unforgivable. He played a sadistic sheriff named Bill Daggett.
The film also won the best Oscar movie. The prizes arrived three years after Hackman suffered surgery on the Safena bridge after a heart attack.
Next to Will Smith, Hackman played the main role of State enemy (1998), like the genius of the computer Edward “Brill” Lyle in a frightening history of government surveillance.
His last presence on the screen made Hackman the ideal actor to interpret the intelligent but cruel characters, from the cinematographic adaptations of the novels of John Grisham, like The company (1993) e The jury (2003). In this, for the first time, he appears on the screen next to his former colleague of apartments, Dustin Hoffman.
Its versatility and the luxury of being able to choose the scripts brought to Hackman another great interpretation, in the unconventional comedy The eccentric teenagers (2001), who attracted good criticism.
But Hackman has decided to greet cinema with political satire A very disturbed electionIn 2004. And to justify his decision, he told Reuters that he preferred to prevent his retreat from having a bitter taste.
“The work for me is very stressful,” he said. “The concessions you need to do in the movies are just a part of the problems and I have reached a point where I just realized that I didn’t want to do it anymore.”
A decade later, he quickly left retirement to narrate two documentaries on the history of the American marine body. Other than that, he kept his plans until the end.
After ceasing to act, Gene Hackman began a new career as a historical fiction writer.
He wrote four books with Daniel Lenihan: Accusing of the lost star (“The awakening of [navio] Lost Star “, 1999), Justice for anyone (“Justice to nobody”, 2004), Vermillion (2004) e Escape from Andersonville (“Escape de Andersonville”, 2008).
Hackman also posted two solo books, Reimbursement to Morning Peak (“Revenge in Morning Peak”, 2011) e Chase (“The Search”, 2013). He said what led him to this new activity.
“In fact, I like loneliness [de escrever]. In a sense, he is similar to acting, but he is more personal and I feel I have more control over what I’m trying to do and say, “said Hackman to Reuters Agency.
“There are always concessions during acting and filming, you work with many people and everyone has an opinion [risos]. “
“But with books, we are only Dan and I, with our opinions,” he says. “I don’t know if I like to act more than, it’s just different. I find it relaxing and comforting.”
Gene Hackman married Faye Maltese in 1956. The couple had three children, but divorced in 1986. Five years later, he married Betsy Arakawa, owner of a luxury furniture shop in Santa Fe, in New Mexico.
Gene Hackman made over 80 films and still managed to become a respected and competent golf player. He simply did not go so well in Motorsport when he led Ford Ford Cars and participated in Daytona 24 Ore in 1983.
During his career, he held some interviews and did not follow the lifestyle of the celebrity.
“If you consider yourself a star,” said Hackman, “you have already lost something in the representation of any human being.”
Source: Terra
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