Lyman Ward

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Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941 in Saint John , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian actor.

life and career

After graduating from St. Thomas University in Miramichi in 1963, Lyman Ward turned to acting. The first appearance on US television took over the Canadian-born in 1971 with a guest role in the Bonanza episode Easy Come, Easy Go . In the following years he got a few guest roles on television as well as his first small film roles, but it was not until the early 1980s that his career took off. The gray-haired, tall actor was mainly cast for serious and capable characters, such as a businessman, police officer, doctor or father.

Ward played perhaps his best-known film role in 1986 as Matthew Broderick's father in the John Hughes comedy Ferris Makes Blue . He later took on his role as Mr. Bueller when he appeared as the father of Chris Evans in the parody Not Another Teenage Movie! (2001) on the grain. In 1987 he starred again in the comedy Ein Ticket für Zwei , directed by Hughes, here he played a business partner of Steve Martin . In 1990 he was cast for the role of father Jim Walsh in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 , but he was fired during the filming of the pilot episode and replaced by James Eckhouse . To date, Ward has appeared in around 100 film and television productions. He was last seen in the television series Transparent in 2015 .

Lyman Ward was married three times, all marriages ended in divorce. From 1986 to 1992 he was third married to actress Cindy Pickett , whom he met while filming Ferris makes blue . In Ferris makes blue (1986) and Stephen King's sleepwalker (1992) they each embodied a married couple. Pickett and Ward have two children together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lyman Ward at Hollywood.com
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Lyman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint John , New Brunswick , Canada