프레드 워드, 영화와 텔레비전의 베테랑 캐릭터 배우, 사망했다, 그의 홍보 담당자 Ron Hofmann에 따르면.
구, 그의 작품으로 유명하다 “올바른 물건,” “숏컷,” 그리고 수많은 다른 영화들, 5월에 사망 8 나이에 79.
사망 원인이 밝혀지지 않았습니다.
Ward started acting in the early 1970s, following three years of service in the U.S. 공군. A renaissance man, Ward also did stints as a short-order cook, a boxer, and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska. His first major role came in the Clint Eastwood film “Escape from Alcatraz” 에 1979.
Fred Ward in the 1983 필름 “The Right Stuff.”
에 “올바른 물건,” Ward portrayed real-life Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom. He switched gears in “헨리 & 유월,” playing chain-smoking, hard-drinking author Henry Miller, who travels to Paris in 1931 to finish his book “Tropic of Cancer.”
에 1988, Ward bought the film rights to “Miami Blues,” which showcased Ward as Hoke Mosely, a veteran Miami detective trying to corral a slick ex-con.
Ward later joined forces with Robert Altman in “The Player,” played a gangster in Alan Rudolph’s “Equinox,” and was a TV news anchor in Tim Robbins’ “Bob Roberts.” 에 1993, he played one of three friends who find a corpse while fishing in “Short Cuts.”
“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 said in an emailed statement.
Some of Ward’s other film credits include “Summer Catch,” “Sweet Home Alabama” 과 “Abandon.” 텔레비전에서, Ward appeared in “The United States of Tara,” “그레이 아나토미,” “Leverage,” “True Detective” and among other series.
Also an artist, in recent years Ward directed some of his creative talent to painting.
그는 그의 아내에 의해 살아있다. 27 연령, Marie-France Ward and his son Django Ward.
