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Australian actor (born 1936)

Roger Ward (born 1936) is an Australian actor who has had a considerable career in film and television,[1] noted for “tough guy” roles in which he often did his own stunts.[2]

Biography[edit]

Ward was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1936.

His career began at an early age with roles on stage and radio. In his late teens he travelled to Tahiti to begin writing what became the controversial novel and film, The Set. The film was produced in 1970 but the novel was not published until 2011.

He was script editor for Homicide, adapted his novel Reflex into the film Brothers and wrote other documentaries and specials. Ward has featured or starred in over fifteen hundred television shows and more than fifty films with such stars as Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Barry Sullivan, Robert Lansing, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Benjamin, Tom Selleck, Paula Prentiss, Peter Graves, Alan Rickman, Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey and Laura San Giacomo.

In Mad Max (1979), he created the memorable bald headed police hall captain “Fifi”; The Man From Hong Kong had him as the bumbling Australian policeman, Bob Taylor. In Stone he was the comedic biker, “Hooks”. Turkey Shoot saw him as “Ritter” the guard from hell, and in Quigley Down Under he played “Brophy”, one of the outlaw gang. He was an Irish mounted policeman in the 1978 film The Irishman and an all-singing, dancing pirate in The Pirate Movie.

He played popular characters in TV series including long-running character Frank “Weppo” Smith,[3] the Shakespeare-spouting garbage collector in Number 96,[4] a boxer in Boys from the Bush and also appeared in The Sullivans.

Later independent films in which he was featured include Long Weekend (2008), Bad Behaviour (2010), Elimination Game, Death’s Waiting Room, Choir Girl, Debt Collector, Devils Detour, Boar and Faceless Man.

He was engaged to appear in another film in 2019.[5]

Filmography[edit]

  • Nude Odyssey (1961) as Beachcomber (uncredited)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) as Minor Role (uncredited)
  • Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (“Tread Lightly”) (1968, TV series) as Carver
  • You Can’t See ’round Corners (1969) as punter (uncredited)
  • It Takes All Kinds (1969) as bodyguard
  • The Set (1970) as dancer at party
  • Squeeze a Flower (1970) as Bosun
  • Adam’s Woman (1970) as Flogger (uncredited)
  • Dalmas (1973) as Policeman
  • Moving On (1974) as Stock Agent
  • Tie jin gang da po zi yang guan (1974) as Motorcycle Thug (uncredited)
  • Stone (1974) as Hooks
  • The Man from Hong Kong (1975) as Bob Taylor
  • Mad Dog Morgan (1976) as Trooper
  • Deathcheaters (1976) as 1st Police Sergeant
  • No Room to Run (1977, TV Movie) as Delivery Man
  • High Rolling (1977) as Lol
  • Cop Shop (1977, TV Series) as Bailey
  • The Irishman (1977) as Kevin Quilty
  • Chopper Squad (1978, TV Series) as Security Guard
  • Doctor Down Under (1979, TV Series) as Mr. Phillips
  • Mad Max (1979) as Captain Fifi Macaffee
  • Touch and Go (1980) as Wrestler
  • The Chain Reaction (1980) as Moose
  • Young Ramsay (1980, TV series) as Phil Angel
  • I Can Jump Puddles (1981, TV movie) as Peter McLeod
  • The Squad (1981, TV Movie)
  • Bellamy (TV series) (1981) as Rafe
  • Lady Stay Dead (1981) as Officer Clyde Collings
  • Turkey Shoot (1982) as Chief Guard Ritter
  • Sara Dane (1982, TV movie) as Johnny Pigman
  • The Pirate Movie (1982) as Pirate
  • Brothers (1982) as Cameraman One
  • Special Squad (1984, TV Series)
  • Winners (1985, TV Series) as Fergus
  • Shout! The Story of Johnny O’Keefe (1985, TV movie) as Police Sergeant
  • A Fortunate Life (1986, TV Mini-Series) as Martin
  • Professor Poopsnagle’s Steam Zeppelin (1986, TV Series)
  • Poor Man’s Orange (1987, TV Mini-Series) as Mr. Kilroy
  • Sands of the Bedouin (1988, TV Movie)
  • Mission: Impossible (1988, TV Series) as Wilson
  • Young Einstein (1988) as Cat Pie Cook
  • Barracuda (1988, TV Movie) as Bill ‘The Dentist’
  • A Country Practice (1988-1993, TV Series) as Pat O’ Connor / Inspector Poulos / Stan Plummer
  • Quigley Down Under (1990) as Brophy
  • Fatal Bond (1991) as Detective Greaves
  • Pirates Island (1991, TV Movie) as Slavemaster
  • Rough Diamonds (1995) as Merv Drysdale
  • Big Sky (1997, TV Series) as Barney
  • Water Rats (1997, TV Series) as Jim Lockwood
  • The Gift (1997, Short) as Removalist #1
  • When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001, TV Movie) as Cheesy the Clown
  • Long Weekend (2008) as Truckie
  • Bad Behaviour (2010) as Voyte
  • The Mighty Hand of God (2010, Short) as Him
  • Turkey Shoot (2014) as The Dictator
  • Observance (2015) as Conspirator
  • Death’s Waiting Room (2016) as Bertie
  • The Debt Collector (2016) as Jimmy O’Hare
  • Boar (2017) as Blue
  • Are You Scared Yet? (2018) as Gentleman Caller
  • The Faceless Man (2018) as King Dougie
  • Thariode: The Lost City (TBA) [5][6]

Accolades[edit]

Ward won Best Supporting Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his role in Bad Behaviour.

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