Fred Ward was known for gruff, tough-guy roles
The Straits Times|May 16, 2022
American film and television actor Fred Ward, best known for playing gruff, tough-guy roles in movies such as Escape From Alcatraz (1979), Tremors (1990) and The Right Stuff (1983), died on May 8. He was 79.
Fred Ward was known for gruff, tough-guy roles

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No cause or place of death was released, as per his family's wishes, his publicist Ron Hofmann said last Friday.

Ward took a roundabout way into acting, after serving three years in the United States Air Force in the 1960s and then working as an Alaskan lumberjack, a boxer where his nose was broken three times and a short-order cook, according to a biography provided by Hofmann.

Ward's career spanned more than four decades, starting with foreign films in the early 1970s and stretched through 2015 with his final role in the television series True Detective, according to his online IMDb page.

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