Right stuff actor dies movie#
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Ward most recently appeared in the second season of HBO's 'True Detective' as the retired cop father of Colin Farrell's Detective Ray Velcoro.

Right stuff actor dies series#

On the small screen, he had recurring roles on NBC's 'ER' playing the father of Maura Tierney's Abby Lockhart in 2006-2007 and guest starred on such series as 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Leverage' and 'United States of Tara'. Ward demonstrated his comedy chops playing a terrorist intent on blowing up the Academy Awards in 'Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult' in 1994. He also reteamed with Altman for the part of a studio security chief in the director's 1992 Hollywood satire 'The Player' and played a union activist and Meryl Streep's workmate in Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood' in 1983. 'My rear end seemed to have something to do with (that rating),' he told The Washington Post. NEW YORK 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. Based on the book by Anais Nin and directed by Philip Kaufman, Ward played novelist Henry Miller, opposite Nin and his wife June. 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. With the sexually charged, NC-17 'Henry & June', Ward showed more than just grit. Fred Ward, The Right Stuff and Tremors actor, dead at 79. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and a son, Django Ward.In the horror-comedy 'Tremors', Ward paired with Kevin Bacon to play a pair of repairmen who end up saving a hardscrabble Nevada desert community beset by giant underground snakes. Veteran actor Fred Ward, who parlayed rugged everyman looks into a lengthy career playing everything from historic American heroes to a monster-fighting repairman, has died, his representative said Friday. Ward won a Golden Globe and the Venice Film Festival ensemble prize for his performance in Short Cuts in 1993, his biography said.

Right stuff actor dies movie#

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 am sad to announce the passing of acclaimed actor Fred Ward, who passed away on Sunday, May 8, 2022, at age 79,' Ron Hofmann, a representative for Ward, said in a statement to FOX News Digital. Fred Ward, a veteran character actor in film and television, has died, according to his. LOS ANGELES - Fred Ward, a longtime actor best known for his roles in films like 'Tremors' and 'The Right Stuff,' has died. READ MORE: Prince William meets with Deborah James at her home and personally delivers her damehood Actor Fred Ward, the star of The Right Stuff and many other classic films, has died at 79. Ward made his first American film appearance playing a cowboy in the 1975 film, Hearts of the West. '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.