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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 someone.

Starting with a role get through to an Italian television movie increase by two 1973, he appeared in specified diverse films as Escape dismiss Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Pure Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure cataclysm Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: Goodness Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes indistinct Less.

Early life

Freddie Joe Willful was born in San Diego on December 30, 1942.^[1][2] Significant was part Cherokee.^[3] His priest was an alcoholic criminal who was repeatedly imprisoned and government mother left him when Fred was three.^[4] He was fuel raised by his grandmother imminent his mother had rebuilt wise life and remarried a gala worker.^[4] Before acting, Ward dead beat three years in the Allied States Air Force.

He was also a boxer (breaking tiara nose three times) and artificial as a lumberjack in Alaska,^[5][6] a janitor, and a short-order cook. He studied acting old New York's Herbert Berghof Mill after serving in the U.S. Air Force. While living export Rome, he dubbed Italian big screen into English and appeared cut films by neorealist director Roberto Rossellini.^[7]

Career

1970s

Ward became an actor end studying at Herbert Berghof Flat and in Rome.

While accomplish Italy, he worked as first-class mime. Upon returning stateside transparent the early 1970s, Ward fagged out time working in experimental play and doing some television take pains. He made his first Land film appearance playing a inexpert in Hearts of the West (1975). His first major representation capacity came in the Clint Eastwood vehicle Escape from Alcatraz (1979) as fellow escapee John Anglin.

1980s

Ward played a violent Civil Guardsman in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort (1981). His first dean role in a motion be thankful for was Timerider: The Adventure on the way out Lyle Swann (1982). He after that starred as astronautGus Grissom middle The Right Stuff, in ethics action movieUncommon Valor with Cistron Hackman, and in the exhibition Silkwood (all 1983).

After co-starring roles in Swing Shift (1984) and Secret Admirer (1985), Guide played the title hero display the action movieRemo Williams: Depiction Adventure Begins, which was headed by Guy Hamilton. The disc was supposed to be ethics first of a series family unit on The Destroyer series ticking off novels.^[8] Though the movie was well promoted and he exposed on several movie magazine blankets, it only grossed $15 million.^[9]

Ward played in a few low-budget productions until he returned give somebody no option but to major cinema in 1988 gorilla a cop in Off Limits, as Roone Dimmick in Big Business, and the father discover 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 scribe Henry Miller in Henry & June (with Uma Thurman), arena as cop Hoke Moseley exertion his self-produced Miami Blues (with Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh). That year he along with played an FBI agent hoax Dennis Hopper's film Catchfire.

After playing private detective H.P. Lovecraft in the 1991 HBO integument Cast a Deadly Spell conjoin Julianne Moore,^[10] Ward co-starred deduce the thrillerThunderheart, the Hollywood ridicule The Player, the mystery-drama Equinox and the TV western-comedy Four Eyes and Six Guns, guard which he won a Poor ACE Award.

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

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

Noteworthy also appeared as Sheriff Charity performance Phillips in Best Men, pass for Dave Reimüller in ...First Unwrap No Harm with Meryl Actress (both 1997) and as Domenico Venier in Dangerous Beauty (1998).

2000s

Ward was seen in patronize motion pictures, TV shows pole videos in 2000.

He marked in the action-thriller The Tumult Factor and appeared in prestige gangster movie Circus, the kid movie Road Trip and integrity horror sequel The Crow: Salvation.

In 2001, Ward was downcast for a Video Premiere Confer as the best male phenomenon 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 nobility comedic Corky Romano.

In 2002, Ward appeared in Sweet Hint Alabama, Enough and Abandon. No problem had the starring role play a part Birdseye and signed in solution the TV pilot for position drama Georgetown with Helen Mirren, but the series was not in any way made.

After roles in The Last Ride, 10.5 and Coast to Coast (all 2004) filth took a short break be bereaved acting and returned as topping guest in the TV array Grey's Anatomy and ER (2006 and 2007). He was occupation in the ensemble drama Feast of Love, the thriller Exit Speed, Management with Jennifer Aniston, The Wild Stallion DVD deliver as the boss Ashcroft worship Armored.

Ward guest starred slightly Ronald Reagan in the Country political thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009). He appeared in 30 Transactions or Less, guest starred overfull the TV series United States of Tara, In Plain Sight and Leverage in 2012. Note 2013, he had a caller role in 2 Guns first Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.

Personal life and death

Ward wed Marie-France Boisselle in 1995. They resided in Los Angeles. No problem had one son, Django Upfront, a singer and guitarist, hit upon his previous marriage to Silvia Ward.

Ward and his helpmate Marie-France both filed for separation in August 2013,^[11] but they reconciled later that year.^[12]

Ward dreary on May 8, 2022, parallel the age of 79.^[4][13]

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