- Actor Gene Hackman, winner of Best Supporting Actor at academy awards in March 1993. Hackman will turn 80 years on Jan. 30, 2010. (AP Photo, File) LOS ANGELES — Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar-winning actor,

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Gene Hackman was honored for his extensive career in Hollywood at the 2025 Oscars. During the live telecast at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Morgan

Morgan Freeman speaks about Gene Hackman with an image of Gene Hackman on the screen during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) LOS ANGELES – The Oscars brought a somber elegy for Gene Hackman and a joyful tribute to Quincy Jones on Sunday night.

Hackman portrays a retired football player in Los Angeles. In his new job as a private investigator, he finds that his wife is having an affair.

Actors Christopher Reeve, left, and co-star Gene Hackman arrive at the premiere of the movie "Superman" in Los Angeles, Ca., on Dec. 15, 1978. (AP Photo/, File)

It’s a tall task to try to whittle Gene Hackman’s career down to five notable films. One of the 20th century’s greatest actors, Hackman’s career spanned more than 40 years and a variety of roles, from tough-guy parts to comedic turns,

Late actor Gene Hackman 's $4 million Santa Fe compound has been pictured surrounded by police and emergency vehicles—as officials deemed the deaths of the Hollywood legend and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, "suspicious enough" to warrant a full investigation.

The cause of death for the legendary actor, 95, and his pianist wife, 65 — whose partially mummified remains were found last Wednesday along with the body of one of their three dogs at their rustic Sa

As in past years, the In Memoriam segment of Sunday’s Oscar telecast quickly became controversial because of the stars who were left out of the montage, notably ‘Gossip Girl’

The award-winning actor swapped the Hollywood hills for the rocky mountains of Santa Fe with his wife, Betsy Arakawa