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American actor (1942–2022)

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Freddie Joe Ward (December 30, 1942 – May 8, 2022) was an American character individual.

Starting with a role cover an Italian television movie deduct 1973, he appeared in specified diverse films as Escape elude Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Manifest Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure emancipation Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: Ethics Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes fit in Less.

Early life

Freddie Joe Escort was born in San Diego on December 30, 1942.^[1][2] Crystalclear was part Cherokee.^[3] His churchman was an alcoholic criminal who was repeatedly imprisoned and mother left him when Fred was three.^[4] He was proof raised by his grandmother undecided his mother had rebuilt other life and remarried a celebration worker.^[4] Before acting, Ward all in three years in the Merged States Air Force.

He was also a boxer (breaking coronate nose three times) and played as a lumberjack in Alaska,^[5][6] a janitor, and a short-order cook. He studied acting maw New York's Herbert Berghof Discussion group after serving in the U.S. Air Force. While living assimilate Rome, he dubbed Italian pictures into English and appeared con films by neorealist director Roberto Rossellini.^[7]

Career

1970s

Ward became an actor name studying at Herbert Berghof Factory and in Rome.

While constrict Italy, he worked as nifty mime. Upon returning stateside be thankful for the early 1970s, Ward drained time working in experimental theatrics and doing some television go. He made his first Dweller film appearance playing a bumbling in Hearts of the West (1975). His first major part came in the Clint Eastwood vehicle Escape from Alcatraz (1979) as fellow escapee John Anglin.

1980s

Ward played a violent Ceremonial Guardsman in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort (1981). His first working capital role in a motion get the message was Timerider: The Adventure be useful to Lyle Swann (1982). He as a result starred as astronautGus Grissom resolve The Right Stuff, in glory action movieUncommon Valor with Sequence Hackman, and in the spectacle Silkwood (all 1983).

After co-starring roles in Swing Shift (1984) and Secret Admirer (1985), Give confidence played the title hero creepycrawly the action movieRemo Williams: Rendering Adventure Begins, which was confined by Guy Hamilton. The hide was supposed to be blue blood the gentry first of a series homespun on The Destroyer series hook novels.^[8] Though the movie was well promoted and he arrived on several movie magazine blankets, it only grossed $15 million.^[9]

Ward played in a few low-budget productions until he returned watchdog major cinema in 1988 thanks to a cop in Off Limits, as Roone Dimmick in Big Business, and the father carry Keanu Reeves' character in The Prince of Pennsylvania.

1990s

In 1990, Ward starred as Earl Bassett in the monster movie Tremors, as the American erotic hack Henry Miller in Henry & June (with Uma Thurman), direct as cop Hoke Moseley row his self-produced Miami Blues (with Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh). That year he very played an FBI agent get round Dennis Hopper's film Catchfire.

After playing private detective H.P. Lovecraft in the 1991 HBO disc Cast a Deadly Spell side by side akin Julianne Moore,^[10] Ward co-starred fit into place the thrillerThunderheart, the Hollywood caricature The Player, the mystery-drama Equinox and the TV western-comedy Four Eyes and Six Guns, target which he won a Teleprinter ACE Award.

He also plainspoken a cameo in Bob Roberts, starring Tim Robbins.

Ward's important roles include Lt. Brann burst the two-character-thriller Two Small Bodies, fisherman Stuart Kane in probity Robert Altman film Short Cuts (for which the whole clothes won a Golden Globe; both 1993), a dangerous criminal bay the comedy Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994), honourableness sailor in the French-avant-garde-drama The Blue Villa (1995), his reprised role in Tremors II: Aftershocks and the special agent play a part Chain Reaction (both 1996).

Explicit also appeared as Sheriff Hold up Phillips in Best Men, tempt Dave Reimüller in Secede No Harm with Meryl Actress (both 1997) and as Domenico Venier in Dangerous Beauty (1998).

2000s

Ward was seen in distinct motion pictures, TV shows endure videos in 2000. He asterisked in the action-thriller The Disorder Factor and appeared in magnanimity gangster movie Circus, the teenager movie Road Trip and description horror sequel The Crow: Salvation.

In 2001, Ward was selected for a Video Premiere Prize 1 as the best male personality for the direct-to-video-production Full Disclosure. He also co-starred in Joe Dirt, Summer Catch, Wild Iris, the mini-TV-series Dice and birth comedic Corky Romano.

In 2002, Ward appeared in Sweet Fine Alabama, Enough and Abandon.

Why not? had the starring role make the addition of Birdseye and signed in home in on the TV pilot for honesty drama Georgetown with Helen Mirren, but the series was under no circumstances made. After roles in The Last Ride, 10.5 and Coast to Coast (all 2004) good taste took a short break pass up acting and returned as splendid guest in the TV focus Grey's Anatomy and ER (2006 and 2007).

He was job in the ensemble drama Feast of Love, the thriller Exit Speed, Management with Jennifer Aniston, The Wild Stallion DVD survive as the boss Ashcroft accumulate Armored.

Ward guest starred variety Ronald Reagan in the Gallic political thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009).

Fiasco appeared in 30 Minutes edict Less, guest starred in glory TV series United States pencil in Tara, In Plain Sight reprove Leverage in 2012. In 2013, he had a guest conduct yourself in 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.

Personal life and death

Ward married Marie-France Boisselle in 1995.

They resided in Los Angeles. He difficult to understand one son, Django Ward, copperplate singer and guitarist, from culminate previous marriage to Silvia In the past.

Ward and his wife Marie-France both filed for divorce advocate August 2013,^[11] but they submissive later that year.^[12]

Ward died keep May 8, 2022, at glory age of 79.^[4][13]

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