Dances with Wolves actor Graham Greene dies aged 73

The trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award, died in Toronto after a long illness

Graham Greene’s Hollywood breakthrough came when Kevin Costner cast him as real-life Lakota Sioux medicine man in Dances With Wolves. Picture: Bryan R. Smith / AFP via Getty Images

Graham Greene, the prolific Oscar-nominated Canadian First Nations actor and Hollywood trailblazer, has died aged 73 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness.

“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent, Michael Greene (no relation), told Deadline. “You are finally free.”