Frederick Joseph Ward was an actor and producer from the United States. At the age of 79, he passed away. Let us see how did he die, what happened, and what was Fred Ward Cause of Death.
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Fred Ward, best known for his appearances in “The Right Stuff,” “Tremors,” and “Escape From Alcatraz,” died on Sunday at the age of 79, according to his publicist. A tumor was Ward’s cause of death.
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.”
Ward also acted in Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June (1990), the first NC-17 picture to hit theatres, as hard-drinking expatriate author Henry Miller, who enjoys two parties a three in Paris in 1931 with his wife (Uma Thurman) and another writer (Maria de Medeiros).
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.
Fred Ward Cause of Death
Ward was married three times and was “earthy and unassuming in what is undoubtedly the film’s most difficult part” as astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom in Kaufman’s The Right Stuff (1983). Their wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and his son, Django, named after Belgian jazz pianist Django Reinhardt, are among the survivors.
In his work, the San Diego native displayed genuine power and a harsh attitude. As a union activist and Meryl Streep’s coworker in Mike Nichols’ Silkwood (1983), and for his roles in Errol Morris’ The Dark Wind (1991) and Michael Apted’s Thunderheart (1993), he dipped into his Cherokee roots (1992).
Ward also played a motorbike racer in Timerider: The Adventures of Lyle Swann (1982), a former Vietnam War tunnel rat in Ted Kotcheff’s Uncommon Valor (1983), and a rumpled officer in George Armitage’s Miami Blues who tackles a deranged criminal (Alec Baldwin) and loses his dentures (1990).
He also starred in ‘The Right Stuff’ as astronaut Gus Grissom and starred in ‘Silkwood,’ ‘Uncommon Valor,’ and ‘Miami Blues.’ Ward died on Sunday, according to his spokesman Ron Hofmann. The family requested that neither the reason nor the location of death is revealed. Donations can be made in his honor to the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.
His Career
When he was cast as the titular role in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, he had his best opportunity at stardom (1985). Based on the bestselling The Destroyer novels, Orion Pictures’ film was intended to set off a franchise centered on an American counterpart of James Bond. (It was directed by Guy Hamilton and written by Christopher Wood, both 007 veterans, and Ward agreed to appear in three Remo Williams films.)
Ward’s Remo was a New York cop who became an assassin for a secret government agency after being trained martial arts abilities by a Korean instructor (Joel Grey). Despite a cool action climax on scaffolding covering the Statue of Liberty, the film bombed at the box office, and the adventure ended just as it began.
Ward, on the other hand, got two chances to play Earl Bass, the tough Nevada handyman who battles creepy crawlies, in Tremors (1990) and a 1996 direct-to-video sequel.
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I met Fred Ward back in 2005 working at Gelsons market in mdr. Fred always ordered healthy food from the deli.Fred was always real kind and friendly. I went.to work later at wholefoods deli in venice. Fred came to that location he remembered me. I served him healthy food. Im sad to hear about his death. May he rest💕