By Barbara Munker

Santa Fe, New Mexico - Two months after Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa passed away, the actor's cause of death has officially been determined.

The autopsy report has indicated that the 95-year-old Hollywood legend died of a cardiovascular disease, according to media reports.

Hackman had a "history of congestive heart failure," Fox News quoted from the report by the coroner in Santa Fe.

According to the report, signs of advanced Alzheimer's disease were also found.

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A test for the hantavirus, which caused his wife's death, was negative in Hackman.

Based on the toxicology tests, the doctors assume that the two-time Oscar winner had not eaten for some time before his death.

Hackman and Arakawa were found dead in their home in Santa Fe on February 26.

At the beginning of March, investigators announced that Arakawa had likely died of a disease caused by hantaviruses, which affect the respiratory tract and are transmitted to humans via rodents such as mice or rats.

The 65-year-old pianist is believed to have died on February 12, and Hackman probably died a week later, on February 18.

An analysis of his pacemaker revealed that abnormal heart activity had been recorded that day. One of the couple's dogs was also discovered dead, presumed to have died of thirst. Two other dogs survived.

Hackman was considered one of the most important actors of his generation. He became famous for films such as "French Connection" (1971), The Conversation (1974), and Unforgiven (1992).

He retired from Hollywood in the early 2000s and from then on lived with Arakawa in Santa Fe. They had been married since 1991.