Fred Ward, Star of ‘The Right Stuff,’ ‘Tremors,’ Dies at 79!

Actor Fred Ward has died, according to his publicist, Ron Hofmann. The star, who brought gentlemanly gruffness to films that included The Right Stuff, Tremors, Henry and June and The Player died Sunday, May 8 at the age of 79. No cause of death was given. Ward brought reservoirs of tenderness to his tough guy roles, and plenty of street credibility. A former boxer, lumberjack and short-order cook who served in the U.S. 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. That led to a few appearances in TV productions by Italian neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini, and then Hollywood. Ward made his U.S. movie debut as a convict in the Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz in 1979. 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. He could play such diverse characters as Remo Williams, a cop trained by Chiun, Master of Sinanju (Joel Grey) to become an unstoppable assassin in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, or Earl Bass, who, alongside Kevin Bacon, battle giant, worm-like monsters hungry for human flesh in "cult" horror/comedy film, Tremors (1990), or a detective in the indie film Two Small Bodies (1993) directed by underground filmmaker Beth B., or a terrorist planning to blow up the Academy Awards in The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), or the father of the lead character in Jennifer Lopez"s revenge thriller Enough (2002).\n Ward is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son Django Ward. fred ward, fred ward movies, fred ward interview, fred ward tremors, fred ward tremors interview, fred ward joe dirt, fred ward scissorhands, fred ward 2021, fred ward true detective, fred ward full movie, fred ward 2022, fred ward remo williams, fred ward alec baldwin movie, fred ward action movie, fred ward alive, fred ward alcatraz, fred ward best movies, fred ward big business, fred ward chowchilla, fred ward django unchained, full disclosure fred ward, fred ward emmy, fred ward gardens reviews, hacking fred ward, fred ward instagram, fred ward kevin bacon, fred ward latest movie, fred ward martial arts, fred ward on er, fred ward on tremors, fred ward pimp, prophet fred ward, fred ward quack, fred ward quotes, fred ward quits, fred ward road trip, fred ward sweet home alabama, fred ward still alive, fred ward time rider, fred ward the right stuff, fred ward tremors 3, fred ward tremors 2, fred ward the crown, tremors fred ward, fred ward ufc, fred ward uber, fred ward update, fred ward vs jon bernthal, fred ward verition, fred ward walking dead, fred ward wrestling, fred ward workout, fred ward xavier, fred ward xavier wulf, fred ward young, fred ward younger, fred ward yt, fred ward youtube, fred ward youtube channel, fred ward zoo, fred ward zoom, fred ward zumba, fred ward zombie, fred ward 01, fred ward 04, fred ward 02, fred ward 007, fred ward 03, fred ward 13, fred ward 12, fred ward 2 guns, fred ward 5e, fred ward 50 cent, fred ward 500, fred ward 64, fred ward 6th, fred ward 79, fred ward 77, fred ward 8 boston, fred ward 8 cocktail, fred ward 85, fred ward 800, fred ward 88, fred ward 81, fred ward 94, fred ward 95, fred ward 90s, fred ward 911, fred ward 97


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