Hollywood actor Robert Swan - who appeared in The Untouchables and Hoosiers - has died at the age of 78. The star passed away after a battle with liver cancer, his friend confirmed on Wednesday, according to Variety. Swan was known for his roles in several feature films.

His most notable was as a Mountie captain in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchable in 1987 which starred Kevin Costner and Sean Connery. In the 1986 basketball movie Hoosiers, about a coach with a checkered past, he played Rollin Butcher. He worked on the 1984 TV movie The Dollmaker starring Jane Fonda about a woman who handmakes dolls to support her family during WWII and he had a role with Kurt Russell and William Baldwin in the 1991 firefighter drama Backdraft.

Swan also played Deputy Napalatoni in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Natural Born Killers starring Juliette Lewis. The star popped up in the classics Somewhere in Time, Heart of Steel, The Twilight Zone, Stingray. And he was in the Madonna film Who’s That Girl. He also showed up on the soap opera All My Children. Other credits include Missing Persons and The Owner. Swan was the founder of Harbor Country Opera, the Michigan-based opera house that was founded in commemoration of Larry Frankle and Quincy White.

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