His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was also found dead in their New Mexico home.

Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa received a touching tribute from the Santa Fe Film Commission following the pair's recent deaths. At the top of a Friday press conference, Santa Fe Film Commissioner Jennifer LaBar-Tapia opened with a tribute on what the late actor and wife meant not only to the film industry but to the city they called home.

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa tested negative for carbon monoxide in the initial results of the toxicology report, leading officials to rule out the gas as a cause of Hackman and Arakawa’s death, Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a press conference on Friday.