United Kingdom, Feb. 27 -- Gene Hackman had to quit Hollywood over "stress".

The Academy Award-winning actor was found dead at the age of 95 alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, and their pet in their New Mexico home on Wednesday (26.02.25) but had been retired for more than 20 years at that point and previously revealed that he gave up his career after a doctor was concerned about his heart.

In 2009, he told Empire: "The straw that broke the camel's back was actually a stress test that I took in New York.

"The doctor advised me that my heart wasn't in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress."

Over the course of his six-decade career, Gene received two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Awa...