In famed actor Gene Hackman has died. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico yesterday.

Authorities are still investigating the cause, but a search warrant affidavit described their deaths as suspicious.

Police say both had been dead for some time before their bodies were found, along with one of their dogs.

An open pill bottle and scattered pills were also found close to Arakawa's body. As John Yang reports, Hackman was one of the

great actors of his generation. As best actor of the year, Gene Hackman receives his Oscar from

Gene Hackman, the versatile everyman actor who won two Oscars, appeared in some 79 films

in a career that spanned more than four decades.

He was widely praised for his ability to bring a grounded and nuanced quality to flawed

characters, that allowed him to play diverse roles across multiple genres. She's a small town girl.

In the 1969's Bonnie and Clyde was his breakout performance, an outlaw who was fiercely loyal

to his family.

He got his first of five Oscar nominations for the film.

Later, he was the paranoid and isolated surveillance expert in the conversation, the iconic

villain Lex Luthor in Superman, and the no-nonsense FBI investigator in Mississippi Burning.

So few people ever get what they really want in life.

It's a make-believe world, and as I say, it's what I wanted to do as a child,

and I fulfilled a lot of my dreams. Many of his best remembered roles were gritty tough guys. In 1971's

crime thriller, The French Connection, he portrayed a New York City cop willing to get his man at any

cost.

All right, Popeye's here.

Get your hands on your head.

Get off the bar and get on the wall.

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