Veteran film and television actor Fred Ward, 79, best known for playing gruff, tough-guy roles in movies such as Tremors, Escape from Alcatraz, and The Right Stuff, died on Sunday, his publicist said on Friday.
No cause or place of death was released, as per his family’s wishes, publicist Ron Hofmann said.
Ward took a roundabout way into acting, after serving three years in the U.S. 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.
His career spanned more than four decades,
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