How did Fred Ward die?
Freddie Joe Ward was born in San Diego on December 30, 1942, was an American actor and producer. Starting with a role in an Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,…
Freddie Joe Ward was born in San Diego on December 30, 1942, was an American actor and producer. Starting with a role in an Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes or Less.
How did Fred Ward die?
In a 1985 biography of the actor, Julia Cameron of the Chicago Tribune noted, “Ward has played several heroes, each with a delicacy that separated them from the cardboard cutout figures that they could have been.” “His work, like Robert Duvall’s, may be seen as a meditation on America’s ideals of masculinity in various ways.”
In an interview with The Washington Post, he added, “My rear end seemed to have something to do with [that rating].” Fred Ward, the former lumberjack who starred in films like Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Tremors, and The Right Stuff as tough-guy action heroes, has died. He was 79.
