Gene Hackman Artwork Cataloged, Makeshift Memorial Made at Favourite Restaurant

Gene Hackman shockingly doesn’t have a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame for followers to grieve their loss … however there’s a restaurant in New Mexico the place some are paying their respects to the legend.

Doug Lanham, an in depth good friend and former enterprise accomplice, tells TMZ … followers have begun dropping off notes and flowers to his Santa Fe restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro … which was co-owned by Hackman for a number of years after he walked away from Hollywood a two-time Oscar winner and movie icon.

Along with being considered top-of-the-line actors to ever grace the silver display screen … Hackman was additionally a prolific painter — and did almost all of the wonderful work that hangs from Jinja’s partitions.

As we beforehand reported … regardless of leaving the restaurant trade, Doug says Gene would usually come by for a meal — and often decide up the tab for purchasers.

Doug remembers Gene as a jokester who would play foolish little tips on him … like placing his finger to Doug’s again and telling him to “reach for the stars” — fairly hilarious given Gene received an Oscar for the western flick, “Unforgiven.”

Gene and his spouse Betsy had been discovered useless of their residence Wednesday — and an investigation into simply what occurred is ongoing. Santa Fe authorities stated on Friday Gene’s pacemaker confirmed its final occasion was on February 17 … making investigators imagine that is when he died.

Gene was 95 … Betsy was 65.