![]() ![]() He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and a son, Django Ward. Fred Ward, the prolific character actor with starring roles in 'Tremors,' 'The Right Stuff' and the second season of 'True Detective,' has died, according to his publicist. Ward won a Golden Globe and the Venice Film Festival ensemble prize for his performance in Short Cuts in 1993, his biography said. That same year he appeared in the action movie Uncommon Valor with Gene Hackman and in the drama Silkwood with Meryl Streep. ![]() In 1983 he portrayed Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom in the adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff. 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. I will always remember chatting about his love of Django Reinhardt and jazz guitar during our long hot days in the high desert. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. The veteran character actor Fred Ward, best known for appearances in The Right Stuff, Tremors and Short Cuts, has died aged 79. "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. But his breakthrough role came when he played opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz. 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. He made his first American film appearance playing a cowboy in the 1975 film, Hearts of the West. 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. Ward took a roundabout way into acting, after serving three years in the US 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. No cause or place of death was released, as per his family's wishes, publicist Ron Hofmann said. ![]() Ward was among the cast of 'The Right Stuff.' Photo: Supplied / AFP Ward, known for his work in The Right Stuff, Short Cuts, and. When it came to battling underground worms I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. CNN Fred Ward, a veteran character actor in film and television, has died, according to his publicist Ron Hofmann. Ward is survived by wife Marie-France Ward and son Django. On television, he starred in the miniseries Invasion Earth and Dice, and guest-starred in Grey’s Anatomy, ER, United States of Tara, Leverage, True Detective and others. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images By Joseph Berger Fred Ward, a versatile actor with a forceful onscreen presence who in a long career played roles that ranged from the sexually. He starred in and exec-produced the 1990 film Miami Blues, directed by George Armitage and co-starring Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Fred Ward (far left), ‘The Right Stuff’ (1983) Everett Collectionįeatured roles would quickly follow, including in such films as Silkwood, Swing Shift, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Tremors, Henry & June, the Robert Altman movies The Player and Short Cuts Errol Morris’ The Dark Wind and Michael Apted’s Thunderheart. ![]()
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