RIP Gene Hackman

Merkin Baller · February 27

https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-found-dead-f6c106e92987aeaaab7b35c1b956a5c8

F Me In The Brain · February 27

The Duck of Death.
So many good movies. Lived a long life.

Merkin Baller · February 27

plug The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 - Evil Sexy Hamlet

Poncier · February 27

Wonder what happened.
95 is a good run. But wife was like 30 years younger, and the dog died too. maybe carbon monoxide or something like that?

Hell of a career. RIP.

pjhawks · February 27

RIP. Legend but he should have designed the original play for Jimmy Chitwood.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 27

Poncier said:

Wonder what happened.
95 is a good run. But wife was like 30 years younger, and the dog died too. maybe carbon monoxide or something like that?

Hell of a career. RIP.

I had the exact same thought.
Something tragic happened.

He was one of my favorites.
Bonnie and Clyde and Mississippi Burning are 2 of my all time favorites.

Merkin Baller · February 27

CO poisoning was my first guess (after a brief flashback to Phil Hartman

).

Agreed on your two picks, Speedy, and I would throw Hoosiers in there too.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 27

Merkin Baller said:

CO poisoning was my first guess (after a brief flashback to Phil Hartman ).

Agreed on your two picks, Speedy, and I would throw Hoosiers in there too.

The blind man in Young Frankenstein.

Poncier · February 27

He was awesome in his brief role in Young Frankenstein.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 27

Poncier said:

He was awesome in his brief role in Young Frankenstein.

Ha

Get_Right · February 27

Sad. He was one of the greats.
RIP Hoosiers coach.

CROJAM95 · February 27

RIP Gene.....always Great! RIP to his wife and the dog......Ugh Freakin Life sometimes

tbergs · February 27

It's crazy to me that he had 2 marriages of at least 30 years. Loved him as an actor and many great performances, especially in the 90's. Crimson Tide was one of my favorites.

PJ_Soul · February 27

The deaths are looking extremely suspicious now IMO, and they are investigating. Apparently they gave ruled out any gas leaks or CO poisoning. Also, there were two other dogs still alive, one inside (poor things).

Seems like a really strange situation.

Johnny Abruzzo · February 28

Hello Bob. Still talking about the queen. On INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Gern Blansten · February 28

I haven't watched The French Connection in years, going to do that....great movie

I thought he was great in the Royal Tenenbaums, Unforgiven and The Firm...

He was also in that horrible movie with Dan Aykroyd movie called Loose Cannons

Eraserhead · February 28

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

Move along Nothing to see here - Chief Wiggum - chiefwiggum post - Imgur

JeBurkhardt · February 28

Gern Blansten said:

I haven't watched The French Connection in years, going to do that....great movie

I thought he was great in the Royal Tenenbaums, Unforgiven and The Firm...

He was also in that horrible movie with Dan Aykroyd movie called Loose Cannons

The French Connection is one of my favorite crime movies.

Merkin Baller · February 28

Gern Blansten said:

I haven't watched The French Connection in years, going to do that....great movie

I thought he was great in the Royal Tenenbaums, Unforgiven and The Firm...

He was also in that horrible movie with Dan Aykroyd movie called Loose Cannons

I wanted to watch the Royal Tenenbaums and / or Hoosiers last night, but Prime wanted another $3.99 for me to rent either... f that.

Mississippi Burning was available, but wife didn't want anything too heavy, so I'll revisit that one on my own.

mace1229 · February 28

Eraserhead said:

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

I think that was everyone's first reaction. I don't think there's signs of break in or robbery, no obvious signs of death (like a gunshot), so not too much of a stretch to think it was CO poisoning or something similar at first glance. Only took less than a day to say things aren't adding up. Doesn't seem too unreasonable.

Merkin Baller · February 28

Eraserhead said:

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

Something I read last night suggested the bodies showed signs of decomposition, they'd been deceased for a while. How there was still a dog alive in the house is really strange (Maybe an automatic feeder / water station?)

F Me In The Brain · February 28

Johnny Abruzzo said:

Hello Bob. Still talking about the queen. On INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Yeah out of all if his great roles, The Duck of Death is still the best, to me.

mace1229 · February 28

Merkin Baller said:

Eraserhead said:

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

Something I read last night suggested the bodies showed signs of decomposition, they'd been deceased for a while. How there was still a dog alive in the house is really strange (Maybe an automatic feeder / water station?)

Yeah, I heard on the news this morning it had been 2 weeks since anyone heard from them and they showed signs of mummification.

Gern Blansten · February 28

Merkin Baller said:

Eraserhead said:

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

Something I read last night suggested the bodies showed signs of decomposition, they'd been deceased for a while. How there was still a dog alive in the house is really strange (Maybe an automatic feeder / water station?)

yeah two dogs alive, one dead....strange

I heard that they found the wife in the bathroom with pills strewn all over. I wondered if maybe she found Gene or saw him collapse and went to get his nitro pills or something thinking he had a heart attack. Hopefully not a murder suicide.

mace1229 · February 28

Gern Blansten said:

Merkin Baller said:

Eraserhead said:

Sounds like they had Chief Wiggum on the case at first. Nothing to see here - apart from two dead bodies and a dead dog!

Bake 'em away, toys.

Something I read last night suggested the bodies showed signs of decomposition, they'd been deceased for a while. How there was still a dog alive in the house is really strange (Maybe an automatic feeder / water station?)

yeah two dogs alive, one dead....strange

I heard that they found the wife in the bathroom with pills strewn all over. I wondered if maybe she found Gene or saw him collapse and went to get his nitro pills or something thinking he had a heart attack. Hopefully not a murder suicide.

That was my next thought. Gene was 95 (I actually had no idea he was that old, I figured he was mid 80s). So not surprising he would pass naturally. Maybe the wife didn't handle it well and took the pills. And one dog died of starvation, the others drank from the toilet or something and managed to survive.
Thats my theory at this point.

PJ_Soul · March 1

I love a ton of his movies. I think Superman will always be closest to my heart though. I do, however, clearly remember watching Enemy of the State and specifically thinking that it was so much better than I expected, mainly because of Gene Hackman. It's not my favourite of his, but it totally reminded me of how awesome he was.

josevolution · March 1

PJ_Soul said:

I love a ton of his movies. I think Superman will always be closest to my heart though. I do, however, clearly remember watching Enemy of the State and specifically thinking that it was so much better than I expected, mainly because of Gene Hackman. It's not my favourite of his, but it totally reminded me of how awesome he was.

Also Poseidon movie he was pretty good in that! Not sure why but when I heard about him & wife with dog I automatically thought they found all three laying together

Get_Right · March 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1F9D6LVTkA

two greats

RIP Gene Hackman

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