Graham Greene, an actor greatest identified for his function as “Kicking Hen” in 1989’s Dances With Wolves, died Sept. 1 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, of pure causes, in accordance with his agent. He was 73.

“It’s with deep unhappiness we announce the peaceable passing of award-winning, legendary Canadian actor Graham Greene,” the actor’s agent-manager in Canada, Gerry Jordan, wrote in a press release to Leisure Weekly on Monday.

Greene graduated from the Heart for Indigenous Theatre Program in 1972 and made his display debut in 1983’s Working Courageous. The actor went on to look in motion pictures together with The Inexperienced Mile, Maverick, and two Twilight Saga motion pictures.

“He was an ideal man of morals, ethics and character and can be eternally missed,” his California-based agent Michael Greene instructed Deadline. “You’re lastly free.” He famous that the actor’s late longtime agent, Susan Smith, can be “assembly you at the gates of heaven.”

Greene, a Canadian First Nations actor, was born on the Six Nations Reserve and commenced working in theater productions within the Nineteen Seventies. His first notable TV function was in a 1979 episode of The Nice Detective. His breakthrough function was as Kicking Hen in Kevin Costner’s epic Western Dances With Wolves, which gained Greatest Image at the 1991 Oscars.

Greene was additionally nominated within the class of Greatest Actor in a Supporting Function, although Joe Pesci gained for his efficiency in Goodfellas.

From there, Greene appeared on TV’s Northern Publicity and Lonesome Dove: The TV Sequence, in addition to in motion pictures, akin to The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak — Half 2, Wind River, and Molly’s Recreation. Within the final decade of his life, Greene appeared on seven episodes of the Billy Bob Thornton crime drama Goliath, together with reveals together with Longmire, Reservation Canine, Riverdale, and The Final of Us.

He can be seen as soon as extra within the upcoming film Ice Fall.

EW profiled him for a March 1991 story in regards to the breakout stars of Dances With Wolves, noting that Greene was “the primary Native American to be nominated for an performing Oscar since Chief Dan George performed reverse Dustin Hoffman in 1970’s Little Huge Man.”

He was a person of few phrases, in accordance with the interview, and stated merely, “Yup,” that the Oscar nod had modified his life. He was finally additionally acknowledged by the Canadian Display Awards, the Grammys, Canada’s Gemini Awards for TV, and others.

Greene is survived by his spouse of 35 years, Hilary Blackmore, in addition to his daughter, Lilly Lazare-Greene, and a grandson, Tarlo, per Deadline.