"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 wrote in an email.
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movie debut as a convict alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz in 1979.
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That led to a few appearances in TV productions by Italian neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini. The star, who brought gentlemanly gruffness to films that included The Right Stuff, Henry and June and The Player died Sunday, May 8 at the age of 79. Air Force, Ward went to acting school and got his start when he moved to Rome as a young man and worked as a mime, then a voice-over actor. Actor Fred Ward has died, according to his publicist, Ron Hofmann. A former boxer, lumberjack and short-order cook who served in the U.S. Ward brought reservoirs of tenderness to his tough guy roles, and plenty of street credibility. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and a son, Django Ward.Actor Fred Ward has died, according to his publicist, Ron Hofmann. 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.
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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. Fred Ward was among the cast of 'The Right Stuff.' Photo: Supplied / AFP
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