Whilst the two-time Oscar winner mostly tried to keep his family life private throughout his impressive career, he did often confess just how 'tough' his offspring's lives were after he missed out on their earlier years due to work.
Despite the actor wanting to keep his life relatively private, he did sometimes appear at film screenings with his children; Gene and his eldest daughter Elizabeth attended the December 1978 showing of Superman, in which he played villain Lex Luthor.
Hollywood star Gene Hackman - who along with his second wife, Betsy Arakawa, was found dead in their $3.8million Santa Fe home on Wednesday morning - leaves behind three adult children.
Gene and his daughter Elizabeth Hackman at the screening of Superman in December 1978.
However, prior to the height of his fame, Gene was turning to his children for help, with the actor once revealing how he 'I used to have to borrow my daughter's car to go to interviews in Hollywood'.
