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"Ward spent the last years of his life developing his second favorite art form: painting." He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward and his son Django Ward. What a dude!"

swo17 wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 2:37 pm I didn't realize he was so instrumental in Miami Blues getting made

colinr0380 wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 4:10 pm So many great films there, not least his roles in Robert Altman films and in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff. I have to go for the obvious though and say that his buddy banter with Kevin Bacon in Tremors really elevated that film to another level, turning a monster movie into something rather touching as well.

The film I have been curious about seeing for the longest time is the Philip Kaufman film Henry & June in which Ward plays Henry Miller. He's great in the Alan Rudolph film Equinox too. But I most want to revisit his performance as H.P. Lovecraft in Cast A Deadly Spell, which might work well in a double bill with Lord of Illusions.

Though if I am honest, I also want to see Time Rider: The Adenture of Lyle Swann, which looks like it is one of that run of Knight Rider, Airwolf and Road Warrior inspired films about guys and their sci-fi tricked out vehicles (Blue Thunder, Battletruck, etc. At the very least it has to be better than Megaforce! Hasn't it?) and seems as if it would be a perfect fit for Arrow to release!

Beyond being a leading man I think he always made any film immediately more interesting whenever he showed up in a supporting role. I'm particularly thinking of his lovelorn heart on their sleeve beau following his girl to the big city in Big Business the modern day (or rather 1988) set version of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

And I remember at the time being particularly surprised to see him pop up in the 1998 BBC sci-fi show (presumably their attempt at riding the mid 90s X-Files and Independence Day wave of interest in alien invasions) Invasion: Earth which is also notable as an early series created and produced by Jed Mercurio who has hit the big time more recently with his Bodyguard and Line of Duty cop drama shows.

And it is still amazing that Ward began his onscreen career with small roles in Roberto Rossellini's history films The Age of the Medici and Cartesius!

domino harvey wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 6:59 pm There’s a German Blu-ray, actually

swo17 wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 2:37 pm I didn't realize he was so instrumental in Miami Blues getting made

pistolwink wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 5:06 pm I was just going to say, he's great—in a rare lead role—in UFOria, a very charming and original little film that AFAIK is totally missing on any kind of digital home media. He's also very good in Escape from Alcatraz, a masterpiece.

One of Ward's first credits is in Rossellini's The Age of the Medici! There's got to be a story behind that.

John Cope wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 6:11 pm He will always be Lieutenant Brann in Beth B's Two Small Bodies to me. Too bad it's still so terribly underrepresented and unavailable on video (the German DVD may be the only existing one, available in large part I suspect because of the film's German financing, and it's atrocious--you'd do just as well frankly with a VHS); however, I was told yesterday on Facebook that evidently Kino Lorber plans to restore all of Beth B's films and release a Blu-Ray set so that is great news indeed.