A two-time Academy Award winner and a dogged Everyman in many of his roles, Hackman was remembered by collaborators and co-stars after his death.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95.

The tributes to Gene Hackman are pouring in after the Oscar winner was found dead at age 95 inside his Santa Fe, NM, home on Wednesday, February 26. As OK! reported, authorities — who came to the house to conduct a welfare check — also discovered his wife,