Became an Associate Member of RADA.
Father of actress Sophie Ward
Has played two British Prime Ministers: Georges Villiers, AKA The Duke of Buckingham, in The Three Musketeers (1973)/The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974), and Winston Churchill in Young Winston (1972).
In the late 1980s Ward was a victim of a street attack that was never solved and baffled the police.
Is the father-in-law of award winning comedian 'Michael McIntyre (II)', who married Ward's youngest daughter Kitty in 2003.