Tough Everyman Ward

 

Actor Fred Ward has passed at 79. He never achieved super-stardom but was in many noteworthy films over the decades. He was an author in the first NC-17 film Henry and June, an astronaut in The Right Stuff, a repairman fighting giant worms in Tremors, and a hero in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He co-starred in other films like Silkwood, Uncommon Valor, and The Player.  He's been described as a no-nonsense man of action.  I couldn't agree more.