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Roger Ward | |
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| Born | 1936 (age 86–87) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Known for | See filmography |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
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]
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 Stone (1974) he played the comedic biker Hooks and in The Man From Hong Kong (1975) he played bumbling Australian policeman Bob Taylor. In The Irishman (1978) he was an Irish mounted policeman, and In Mad Max (1979), he played the police hall captain Fifi. Turkey Shoot (1982) saw him as Ritter the guard from hell, and in The Pirate Movie (1982) he was an all-singing, dancing pirate. In Quigley Down Under (1990) he played Brophy, one of the outlaw gang.
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), the remake of Turkey Shoot (2014), Boar (2017) and The Faceless Man (2018).
He was engaged to appear in another film in 2019. [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Nude Odyssey (aka Odissea Nuda) | Beachcomber (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Uncredited | Feature film |
| 1966 | They're a Weird Mob | Bloke at end of bar (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1969 | You Can't See 'round Corners | Punter (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1969 | It Takes All Kinds | Bodyguard | Feature film |
| 1970 | The Set | Dancer at Party | Feature film |
| 1970 | Squeeze a Flower | Bosun | Feature film |
| 1970 | Adam's Woman | Flogger (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1971 | The Tony Hancock Special | Pete | TV movie |
| 1973 | Dalmas | Policeman | Feature film |
| 1974 | Moving On | Stock Agent | Feature film |
| 1974 | Stone | Hooks | Feature |
| 1974 | Stoner (aka Tie jin gang da po zi yang guan) | Motorcycle Thug (uncredited) | Feature film |
| 1975 | The Man from Hong Kong | Bob Taylor | Feature film |
| 1976 | Mad Dog Morgan | Trooper | Feature film |
| 1976 | Deathcheaters | 1st Police Sergeant | Feature film |
| 1976 | Me and Mr Thorne | Hedge | TV movie |
| 1976 | Rate of Exchange | Short film | |
| 1977 | No Room to Run | Delivery Man | TV movie |
| 1977 | High Rolling | Lol | Feature film |
| 1977 | The Irishman | Kevin Quilty | Feature film |
| 1979 | Mad Max | Captain Fifi Macaffee | Feature film |
| 1980 | Touch and Go | Wrestler | Feature film |
| 1980 | The Chain Reaction | Moose | Feature film |
| 1981 | Lady Stay Dead | Officer Clyde Collings | Feature film |
| 1981 | I Can Jump Puddles | Peter McLeod | TV movie |
| 1981 | The Squad (aka The Homicide Squad) | Det Sgt Vernon Dangerfield | TV movie |
| 1982 | Turkey Shoot | Chief Guard Ritter | Feature film |
| 1982 | Sara Dane | Johnny Pigman | TV movie |
| 1982 | The Pirate Movie | Pirate | Feature film |
| 1982 | Brothers | Cameraman One | Feature film |
| 1985 | Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe | Police Sergeant | TV movie |
| 1988 | Sands of the Bedouin | TV movie | |
| 1988 | The Tourist | TV movie | |
| 1988 | Young Einstein | Cat Pie Cook | Feature film |
| 1988 | Barracuda | Bill 'The Dentist' | TV movie |
| 1990 | Quigley Down Under | Brophy | Feature film |
| 1991 | Fatal Bond | Detective Greaves | Feature film |
| 1991 | Pirates Island | Slavemaster | TV movie |
| 1991 | Dusty Hearts | Short film | |
| 1995 | Rough Diamonds | Merv Drysdale | Feature film |
| 1997 | The Gift | Removalist #1 | Short film |
| 1997 | Life and Death | Short film | |
| 2001 | When Good Ghouls Go Bad | Cheesy the Clown | TV movie |
| 2008 | Long Weekend | Truckie | Feature film |
| 2010 | Bad Behaviour | Voyte | Feature film |
| 2010 | The Mighty Hand of God | Him | Short film |
| 2014 | Turkey Shoot | The Dictator | Feature film |
| 2015 | Observance | Conspirator | |
| 2017 | Boar | Blue | Feature film |
| 2018 | Are You Scared Yet? | Gentleman Caller | Feature film |
| 2018 | The Faceless Man | King Dougie | Feature film |
| 2019 | Choir Girl | William Millard | Feature film |
| 2019 | The Shinjuku Five | Papa Cosgrove | Feature film |
| 2020 | Dusters | Welles | Short film |
| 2020 | Limbo | Merrin | Short film |
| 2021 | Jane | Mr Gordon | Short film |
| 2022 | The Debt Collector | Jimmie O'Hare | Feature film |
| 2023 | What About Sal? | Daisy | Feature film |
| TBA | Death's Waiting Room | Bertie | Feature film (post-production) |
| TBA | Thariode: The Lost City | Pre-production [5] [6] |
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | The Stranger | TV miniseries, 1 episode | |
| 1966 | Australian Playhouse | Constable Broughton | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1967-73 | Homicide | Ray Sullivan / Wolf Kauffman / George Mason / Edwards / Bill Armstrong / Tony Moran / Ted Jacobs / Greg Toomey / Wilf Walls / Harry Parr | TV series, 10 episodes |
| 1968 | Hunter | Humphrey Wilding | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1968 | Vega 4 | Tritonian | TV miniseries |
| 1968 | The Adventurers | TV series | |
| 1968 | Skippy the Bush Kangaroo | Carver | TV series, episode: "Tread Lightly" |
| 1969 | Riptide | Sergeant / Denzil Webb | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1969-72 | Division 4 | Buster Bell / Bruce 'Hammer' Hamilton / Eddie Walsh / Max Gillies / Stevens | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1972 | The Spoiler | Keith | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1972 | Boney | Comstable Barnard | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1973 | Ryan | Don | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1973 | The Evil Touch | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 1974 | Flash Nick from Jindavick | Sergeant Carson 1 | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1974 | Silent Number | Dan Lane | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1971-75 | Matlock Police | Barry Hawkins / Jack Lewis / Lennie Williams / Wally Moran / Norm Quinn / Mick Smith | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 1975-76 | Number 96 | Frank 'Weppo' Smith | TV series, 46 episodes |
| 1976 | Alvin Purple | Chicka | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1976 | The Outsiders | Dallas | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1978 | Chopper Squad | Security Guard | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1979 | Doctor Down Under | Mr. Phillips | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1980 | Young Ramsay | Phil Angel | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1980 | Home Sweet Home | Billy | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1977 | Cop Shop | Leon Turner / Bailey / Garry Dwyer | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1981 | I Can Jump Puddles | Peter McLeod | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1981 | Bellamy | Rafe | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1982 | Sara Dane | Johnny Pigman | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1984 | Inside Straight | Sid | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1984 | Special Squad | Bill Foster / Peaches | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1984 | Carson's Law | Algernon 'Slammer' McQuade | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1985 | Runaway Island | Pastor Braithwaite | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Winners | Fergus | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1985 | Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe | Police Sergeant | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1986 | Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin | Blaggard | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 1986 | A Fortunate Life | Martin | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1987 | Willing and Abel | Mr Dancer | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1987 | Fields of Fire | Bull | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Poor Man's Orange | Mr Kilroy | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1988 | Mission: Impossible | Wilson | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1988-89 | Rafferty's Rules | Albert Potts | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1992 | Boys from the Bush | Rocko | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1988-93 | A Country Practice | Pat O' Connor / Inspector Poulos / Stan Plummer / Bill Hammond / Burrigan 2 (Police Radio Operator) | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 1997 | Big Sky | Barney | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1997 | Water Rats | Jim Lockwood | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Heartbreak High | Jon Pavlovic | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2020 | Lion's Den | Thomas E. Shirley | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 2021 | Axmo Deus | Lou Sither | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2023 | Celebrity House Cleaner | Action Movie Star | TV series, 1 episode |
Ward won Best Supporting Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his role in Bad Behaviour .
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