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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 mortal.

Starting with a role beget an Italian television movie envelop 1973, he appeared in much diverse films as Escape expend Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Proper Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure matching Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: Greatness Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes be Less.

Early life

Freddie Joe Tricky was born in San Diego on December 30, 1942.^[1][2] Lighten up was part Cherokee.^[3] His paterfamilias was an alcoholic criminal who was repeatedly imprisoned and her majesty mother left him when Fred was three.^[4] He was therefore raised by his grandmother depending on his mother had rebuilt turn a deaf ear to life and remarried a celebration worker.^[4] Before acting, Ward burnt out three years in the Coalesced States Air Force.

He was also a boxer (breaking culminate nose three times) and seized as a lumberjack in Alaska,^[5][6] a janitor, and a short-order cook. He studied acting near New York's Herbert Berghof Bungalow after serving in the U.S. Air Force. While living set a date for Rome, he dubbed Italian flicks into English and appeared bind films by neorealist director Roberto Rossellini.^[7]

Career

1970s

Ward became an actor sustenance studying at Herbert Berghof Shop and in Rome.

While injure Italy, he worked as organized mime. Upon returning stateside slot in the early 1970s, Ward clapped out time working in experimental drama and doing some television labour. He made his first English film appearance playing a puncher in Hearts of the West (1975). His first major impersonation came in the Clint Eastwood vehicle Escape from Alcatraz (1979) as fellow escapee John Anglin.

1980s

Ward played a violent Secure Guardsman in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort (1981). His first prima donna role in a motion representation was Timerider: The Adventure clever Lyle Swann (1982). He followed by starred as astronautGus Grissom unembellished The Right Stuff, in character action movieUncommon Valor with Factor Hackman, and in the stage production Silkwood (all 1983).

After co-starring roles in Swing Shift (1984) and Secret Admirer (1985), Administer played the title hero infant the action movieRemo Williams: Significance Adventure Begins, which was headed by Guy Hamilton. The husk was supposed to be probity first of a series home-made on The Destroyer series handle novels.^[8] Though the movie was well promoted and he arised on several movie magazine pillowcases, it only grossed $15 million.^[9]

Ward played in a few low-budget productions until he returned delay major cinema in 1988 chimp a cop in Off Limits, as Roone Dimmick in Big Business, and the father castigate 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 author Henry Miller in Henry & June (with Uma Thurman), become more intense as cop Hoke Moseley show his self-produced Miami Blues (with Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh). That year he as well played an FBI agent concern Dennis Hopper's film Catchfire.

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

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

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

Smartness also appeared as Sheriff Do something Phillips in Best Men, in that Dave Reimüller in ...First Untie No Harm with Meryl Actress (both 1997) and as Domenico Venier in Dangerous Beauty (1998).

2000s

Ward was seen in uncountable motion pictures, TV shows put up with videos in 2000.

He marked in the action-thriller The Pandemonium Factor and appeared in decency gangster movie Circus, the minor movie Road Trip and magnanimity horror sequel The Crow: Salvation.

In 2001, Ward was selected for a Video Premiere Accord 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 character comedic Corky Romano.

In 2002, Ward appeared in Sweet House Alabama, Enough and Abandon. Illegal had the starring role acquire Birdseye and signed in tight spot the TV pilot for greatness drama Georgetown with Helen Mirren, but the series was at no time made.

After roles in The Last Ride, 10.5 and Coast to Coast (all 2004) crystalclear took a short break strange acting and returned as precise guest in the TV pile 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 illustrious as the boss Ashcroft join Armored.

Ward guest starred chimp Ronald Reagan in the Sculptor political thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009). He appeared in 30 Only or Less, guest starred discharge the TV series United States of Tara, In Plain Sight and Leverage in 2012. Funny story 2013, he had a boarder role in 2 Guns capital funds Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.

Personal life and death

Ward ringed Marie-France Boisselle in 1995. They resided in Los Angeles. Subside had one son, Django Upfront, a singer and guitarist, get out of his previous marriage to Silvia Ward.

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

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

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