RIP Gene Hackman (and wife)

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

His first-ever screen appearance at the 21:02 mark:

 

 

Edited Thursday at 07:24 PM by \GoBillsInDallas/

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/actor-gene-hackman-wife-found-084400257.html
 

this is getting crazy.

[US Egg]

Funniest role he played. 

[aristocrat]

Strange a welfare check took so long. Guy was 95 you’d think they’d be in more frequent contact with family.

[BringBackFergy]

2 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/actor-gene-hackman-wife-found-084400257.html
 

this is getting crazy.

Sad. Rest in “peace”. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

2 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/actor-gene-hackman-wife-found-084400257.html
 

this is getting crazy.

The last story I saw said was the one dog was found dead in a closet. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

34 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

The last story I saw said was the one dog was found dead in a closet. 

I think everyone guessed carbon monoxide at first. But that can’t be it. Like you said, dog locked in a closet?! 
 

then you have both dead people found in different spots of the house. 
 

This is definitely not carbon monoxide or a gas leak. 
 

I have heard some speculation about a double suicide, but that makes no sense too. Why lock one dog (but not the other two) in the closet for that? 

[BringBackFergy]

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

14 hours ago, Steve O said:

Great actor. RIP. Don't see Hoosiers mentioned. One of those movies that no matter where in the story it is, I'm watching until the end.

Miracle and Hoosiers are the two top sports films of all time … the scene when they arrived at the venue for the state championship and he measured the court parameters was cinematic excellence 

[BuffaloBud]

8 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

Miracle and Hoosiers are the two top sports films of all time … the scene when they arrived at the venue for the state championship and he measured the court parameters was cinematic excellence 

Add the cavernous sound just adds to the whole scene.

[The Poojer]

how does his daughter not talk to a 95 year old father in about 2 weeks????

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

5 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

how does his daughter not talk to a 95 year old father in about 2 weeks????

Apparently they were “very close,” yet she hasn’t seen him in years because he lives way in New Mexico and she lives way over in California! 

[The Jokeman]

5 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

how does his daughter not talk to a 95 year old father in about 2 weeks????

Some people don't have great relationships with their parents and talk to them on occasion or life can just get in the way and you don't get a chance to call. 

[Augie]

4 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

Some people don't have great relationships with their parents and talk to them on occasion or life can just get in the way and you don't get a chance to call. 

 

My mother is 97 and she’s almost impossible to call. She won’t hear the ring or be able to answer in time. My sisters try at call but almost never get thru. Fortunately, she’s in a nursing home now with full time care so we no longer have to worry about her being on her own. 

 

Having said that, I have absolutely no idea what happened in this situation. RIP

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, The Poojer said:

how does his daughter not talk to a 95 year old father in about 2 weeks????

 

Life just kinda gets away from ya I suppose... 

[Fleezoid]

1 hour ago, The Jokeman said:

Some people don't have great relationships with their parents and talk to them on occasion or life can just get in the way and you don't get a chance to call. 

 

And some of them have this.....

 

[US Egg]

That his last days are being played out in a tabloid like frenzy is a bit of an injustice to him as well.

[Mark Vader]

On 2/27/2025 at 1:13 AM, Doc Brown said:

Ouch.  So many great movies.  Hoosiers, Unforgiven, and The French Connection.  Obviously.  Also, was easily the best Lex Luthor.

Favorite line.  “Where are you going? I was going to make espresso.”

He was a great Lex Luthor.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

I am going on a Hackman movie binge. Didn’t realize how many classics he was in that I haven’t seen.
 

Started the movie “The Scarecrow,” which I had never seen before. 

[Another Fan]

12 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

I am going on a Hackman movie binge. Didn’t realize how many classics he was in that I haven’t seen.
 

Started the movie “The Scarecrow,” which I had never seen before. 

I know Al Pacino was in that when he was like really young.  
 

I remember reading him and Al didn’t get along the best.

 

let me know how it is