Ein Hackman, one of the greatest actors of all time, is dead at 95. The Starwear that won the Academy Award and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 26. The world of entertainment is withdrawing from the news, as Hackman's long resume has long founded him as one of Hollywood's true features. From his Oscar wins, like Jimi Doyle in "French Relationship" (1971) and the little Dagget in "African" (1992) To his attractive turns like Lex Luter in "Superman" (1978) and the royal Tenenbaum in "Royal Tenenbaus" (2001).

Even so, a career that included roles in no less than 101 projects - the vast majority of them films - and the decades covered is obliged to have at least some disappointing projects ... for the actor himself, if not the audience. In the case of Hackman, he said Chicago Tribune In 1985 that he had two very special acting regrets:

"I made a" happy lady "strictly for the money. I made a movie called "March or die". To this day -today, I can't believe I made a film called "March or Die".

Hackman was wrong when he said that director Stanley Done's "happy lady" (1975) and "Marsh or Die" by Dick Richards (1977) stand out among his roles. The first is a crime comedy in the era of the ban, for two alcohol smugglers (Hackman and Burth Reynolds), who both become trapped with the same woman, Claire (Lisa Minelli). "March or Die", meanwhile, is a French Foreign Legion film where Hackman shares the screen with Spaghetti West Starwright Terrence Hill.

While Hackman was not alien to any comedial styling or military films, these specific films clearly do not fall into the discussion of Best movies for Genes HackmanAnd they definitely did not fit his view of how his career should be. Because /film is known to claim that Hackman is the best actor everHis opinion of his most essential films brings a lot of weight - but it is also worth keeping in mind that both "lucky lady" and "march or died" came in time in the actor's career, where he learned that despite his early success, the film business could be very difficult. Here's how he described the era in an interview in Chicago Tribune:

"In the early 1970s, I had several successful films." The French relationship "had prestige and commercial success." Poseidon's adventure "was no acting, but it was a big hit. I felt I could do everything I wanted to do. I had this great ubiquitous feeling - and, and I believe, I didn't have it. So I made all these films that took me.