Gene Hackman loved acting but hated everything that comes along with it, from hair and makeup to screenwriter notes, director Barry Sonnenfeld recalled in an interview following Hackman's death. Sonnenfeld directed Hackman in 'Get Shorty.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the

New Mexico police are still seeking clues into the mysterious deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife. Investigators have ruled out many theories about their deaths, like carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hollywood stars are beginning to share tributes following the news of storied actor Gene Hackman's death at the age of 95. Director Francis Ford Coppola, who wrote and directed the 1974 thriller "The Conversation," starring Hackman, praised him in an Instagram post.

"He loved being an actor, and hated all the stuff that surrounds being an actor." That, for film director Barry Sonnenfeld, is how he'll remember Gene Hackman, who has died at the age of 95. The endless hours in hair and makeup,