![]() ![]() He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son Django Ward.ĬNN’s Miguel Marquez contributed to this story. Some of Ward’s other film credits include “Summer Catch,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Abandon.” In television, Ward appeared in “The United States of Tara,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Leverage,” “True Detective” and among other series.Īlso an artist, in recent years Ward directed some of his creative talent to painting. “The unique thing about Fred Ward is that you never knew where he was going to pop up, so unpredictable were his career choices,” Hofmann said in an emailed statement. Ward later joined forces with Robert Altman in “The Player,” played a gangster in Alan Rudolph’s “Equinox,” and was a TV news anchor in Tim Robbins’ “Bob Roberts.” In 1993, he played one of three friends who find a corpse while fishing in “Short Cuts.” In 1988, Ward bought the film rights to “Miami Blues,” which showcased Ward as Hoke Mosely, a veteran Miami detective trying to corral a slick ex-con. He switched gears in “Henry & June,” playing chain-smoking, hard-drinking author Henry Miller, who travels to Paris in 1931 to finish his book “Tropic of Cancer.” In “The Right Stuff,” Ward portrayed real-life Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and a son, Django Ward.Fred Ward in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff." Warner Bros/Everett Collection 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 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. 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. Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as The Right Stuff, The Player and Tremors, has died. 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. ![]() Fred Ward was among the cast of 'The Right Stuff.' Photo: Supplied / AFP Fred Ward, The Right Stuff and Short Cuts actor, dies at 79 He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son Django Ward. ![]()
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