Ward won a Golden Globe and the Venice Film Festival ensemble prize for his performance in "Short Cuts" in 1993, his biography said.
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In 1983 he portrayed Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom in the adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, "The Right Stuff." That same year he appeared in the action movie "Uncommon Valor" with Gene Hackman and in the drama "Silkwood" with Meryl Streep. He played everything from an astronaut, cowboy, Vietnam war soldier, a chain-smoking police detective-turned-assassin, to a hero battling giant worms, the release said.
"The unique thing about Fred Ward is that you never knew where he was going to pop up, so unpredictable were his career choices," the release said. He made his first American film appearance playing a cowboy in the 1975 film, "Hearts of the West." But his breakthrough role came when he played opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1979 film "Escape from Alcatraz."
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His career spanned more than four decades, starting with foreign films in the early 1970s and stretched through 2015 with his final role in the television series "True Detective," according to his online IMBD page. Air Force in the 1960s and then working as an Alaskan lumberjack, a boxer where his nose was broken three times and a short-order cook, according to a biography provided by Hofmann. Fred Ward, ‘The Right Stuff,’ ‘Tremors,’ actor dies at 79 Fred Ward, ‘The Right Stuff,’ ‘Tremors,’ actor dies at 79 Fred Ward, star of the 1983 hit The Right Stuff has died. Ward took a roundabout way into acting, after serving three years in the U.S. No cause or place of death was released, as per his family's wishes, publicist Ron Hofmann said. Ward is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son, Django Ward.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.May 13 (Reuters) - Veteran film and television actor Fred Ward, 79, best known for playing gruff, tough-guy roles in movies such as "Tremors," "Escape from Alcatraz," and "The Right Stuff," died on Sunday, his publicist said on Friday. Ward most recently appeared in the second season of HBO's "True Detective" as the retired cop father of Colin Farrell's Detective Ray Velcoro. On the small screen, he had recurring roles on NBC's "ER" playing the father of Maura Tierney's Abby Lockhart in 2006-2007 and guest starred on such series as "Grey's Anatomy", "Leverage" and "United States of Tara". Ward demonstrated his comedy chops playing a terrorist intent on blowing up the Academy Awards in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" in 1994. Fred Ward, a veteran character actor in film and television, has died, according to his. He also reteamed with Altman for the part of a studio security chief in the director's 1992 Hollywood satire "The Player" and played a union activist and Meryl Streep's workmate in Mike Nichols' "Silkwood" in 1983. Actor Fred Ward, the star of The Right Stuff and many other classic films, has died at 79. "My rear end seemed to have something to do with (that rating)," he told The Washington Post. Based on the book by Anais Nin and directed by Philip Kaufman, Ward played novelist Henry Miller, opposite Nin and his wife June. With the sexually charged, NC-17 "Henry & June", Ward showed more than just grit. In the horror-comedy "Tremors", Ward paired with Kevin Bacon to play a pair of repairmen who end up saving a hardscrabble Nevada desert community beset by giant underground snakes.
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