‘He was quite a private person’: expansive auction shows Gene Hackman as actor and artist

<p>Bonhams is selling over 400 items from the estate of the late Oscar-winning actor, from a draft script of The Silence of the Lambs to his own unique artwork</p><p>He was Lex Luthor to Christopher Reeve’s Superman. But could he have been Hannibal Lecter to Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling?</p><p>The intriguing prospect is raised by an unlikely 33-page draft script for The Silence of the Lambs lurking in a collection of the late actor Gene Hackman’s possessions that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/29/over-400-items-from-gene-hackmans-estate-up-for-auction">goes up for auction</a> later this month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/15/gene-hackman-auction-actor-artist">Continue reading...</a>