Gene Hackman was the latest high-profile death in the industry. Among the notables who died in the first two months of 2025: Actress Michelle Trachtenberg attends the premiere of Lifetime's "Sister Cities" at Paramount Theatre on Aug. 31, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose films included what is considered one of the greatest sports movies of all time in "Hoosiers," has died at the age of 95.

Hollywood remembered Hackman and the slate of films he left behind. Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Hackman in 1974′s “ The Conversation ,” wrote on Instagram, “The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor,