One of Australia's best known indigenous actor, David Ngoombujarra, has died. He was 44.

AP and CBC news reported that the actor was found in a park Sunday and died at a hospital, near Perth on Australia's west coast. Police are waiting for the results of the toxicology reports to determine the cause of death, but the death is not considered suspicious.

He will be remembered for his two acclaimed films, "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and "Black and White," both released in 2002 and based on true stories of Australia's indigenous people. Rabbit-Proof Fence" won best film from the Australian Film Institute. He also won one of his three AFI awards for "Black and White," in which he played an Aborigine convicted of killing a young white girl. In 1993, he also won the AFI awards for "Blackfellas" and "The Circuit", an Australian television show.

Born as David Bernard Starr in 1967 in Meekatharra in Western Australia, Ngoombujarra began work as an actor in the early 1980s and had memorable roles in Ned Kelly, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Harry's War, No Way to Forget and Kangaroo Jack.