Graham Greene, a veteran actor who was nominated for an Academy Award while starring alongside Kevin Costner in the 1990 Best Picture winner “Dances With Wolves,” has died. He was 73-years-old.

The Canadian actor passed away on Sunday, in a Toronto hospital with his wife, Hilary Blackmore, by his side, a spokesperson confirmed to TMZ. Graham’s agent, Michael Greene (no relation), described his client as a man of high moral character who will be sorely missed.

“You are finally free,” he added in a message meant for Graham, adding that his former agent Susan Smith will meet him in heaven. A cause of death has not yet been provided.

Greene starred in a number of classic films over the years, including “Dances With Wolves” and “The Green Mile.” A member of Canada’s First Nations tribes, the late actor took pride in his Native American heritage and took on a number of roles in that style.

His acting debut came in 1979, when he starred in the Canadian drama series “The Great Detective.” His first feature film was 1983’s “Running Brave,” while his big break came just a few years later when he landed a key role in “Dances With Wolves.”

Greene sits for an interview with CTM in 2022

Greene starred as “Kicking Bird” opposite Kevin Costner’s Lieutenant Dunbar. The role earned Greene an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor in 1991.

The film was a widespread critical success, earning 12 Oscar nominations. Costner, who directed the flick, ultimately took home Best Director, while the film also won the coveted Best Picture award.

Greene appears in “Dances With Wolves”

In 1992, Greene starred alongside Val Kilmer and Sam Shepard in the mystery/thriller “Thunderheart,” in which he played a a Sioux reservation police officer working to uncover a murder conspiracy.

Additional film credits include “Maverick” (1994), “Die Hard with a Vengeance” (1995), “The Green Mile” (1999), “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009) and “Wind River” (2017).

The veteran actor also appeared in a number of successful telliverion series. His TV credits include “Murder, She Wrote,” “Wolf Lake,” “Defiance,” “Reservation Dogs,” “Echo,” “Riverdale,” “1883” and “Tulsa King.”

In addition to an Oscar nomination for “Dances With Wolves,” Greene took home a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for his work on “Listen to the Storyteller” in 2000.

“I started out as a carpenter, a welder, a draftsman, a carpet layer, a roadie and an audio tech,” he told Reader’s Digest Canada in 2018. “I stumbled into acting and I thought, ‘These people keep me in the shade, give me food and water, take me over to where I say what I’m supposed to say, then they take me back. Wow—this is the life of a dog,’” he added at the time.

Greene is survived by his wife of 35 years, as well as his daughter, Lilly Lazare-Greene, and his grandson, Talo, the New York Post reported.