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Roger Ward
Roger Ward (born 24 July 1937)[1] is an Australian actor and scriptwriter who has had a
considerable career in film and television,[2] noted for "tough guy" roles in which he often did his Roger Ward
own stunts.[3] Born 24 July 1937
Adelaide, South Australia,
Australia
Biography Occupation Actor
Known for See filmography
Ward was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1937.
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
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,[4] the Shakespeare-spouting garbage collector
in Number 96, who has a romance with Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly)[5] 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).

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He has a prominent role in the upcoming Indian film Thariode: The Lost City directed by Nirmal Baby Varghese.[6]

Filmography

Film

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

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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

2025 Disease X: The Zombie Experiment Feature film[7]

TBA Death's Waiting Room Bertie Feature film (post-production)

TBA Thariode: The Lost City Pre-production[6][8]

Television

Year Title Role Type

1965 The Stranger TV miniseries, 1 episode

1966 Australian Playhouse Constable Broughton TV series, 2 episodes

1967- Ray Sullivan / Wolf Kauffman / George Mason / Edwards / Bill Armstrong / Tony Moran / Ted
Homicide TV series, 10 episodes
73 Jacobs / Greg Toomey / Wilf Walls / Harry Parr

1968 Hunter Humphrey Wilding TV series, 1 episode

1968 Vega 4 Tritonian TV miniseries

1968 The Adventurers TV series

TV series, episode: "Tread

1968 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Carver
Lightly"
1969 Riptide Sergeant / Denzil Webb TV series, 2 episodes

1969-
Division 4 Buster Bell / Bruce 'Hammer' Hamilton / Eddie Walsh / Max Gillies / Stevens TV series, 5 episodes
72

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-
Matlock Police Barry Hawkins / Jack Lewis / Lennie Williams / Wally Moran / Norm Quinn / Mick Smith TV series, 6 episodes
75
1975-
Number 96 Frank 'Weppo' Smith TV series, 46 episodes
76

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

Shout! The Story of Johnny

1985 Police Sergeant TV miniseries, 2 episodes
O'Keefe

Professor Poopsnagle's Steam

1986 Blaggard TV series, 4 episodes
Zeppelin
1986 A Fortunate Life Martin TV miniseries, 1 episode

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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-
Rafferty's Rules Albert Potts TV series, 2 episodes
89

1992 Boys from the Bush Rocko TV series, 1 episode

1988- Pat O' Connor / Inspector Poulos / Stan Plummer / Bill Hammond / Burrigan 2 (Police Radio
A Country Practice TV series, 6 episodes
93 Operator)
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

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

References
1. Wilmingham, Margot "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of. Australian Showbiz}}
2. "Legendary Ozploitation star joins 'The Shinjuku Five' " (http://www.nerdly.co.uk/2018/01/01/legendary-ozploitation-star-joins-the-shinjuku-fiv
e/). Nerdly. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
3. "The Daredevils of the Screen" (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45651106). The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 41, no. 5. Australia,
Australia. 4 July 1973. p. 15. Retrieved 7 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "The Explosive Story of Number 96" (https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/95253-number96/). 12 April 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
5. "Cancer Scare for Top Actor" (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51589352). The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 48, no. 26. Australia,
Australia. 26 November 1980. p. 20. Retrieved 7 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Australian star Roger Ward to make Indian debut with 'Thariode: The Lost City' " (https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment
-news/2020/07/17/roger-ward-to-make-indian-debut-thariode-the-lost-city.html). Onmanorama. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
7. Justin (14 September 2024). "Ozploitation star Roger Ward to make Indian debut in Nirmal Baby Varghese's Zombie film" (https://horrorfacts.c
om/ozploitation-star-roger-ward-to-make-indian-debut-in-nirmal-baby-vargheses-zombie-film). horrorfacts.com. Retrieved 17 September
2024.
8. "Legendary Australian actor Roger Ward joins "Thariode: The Lost City" by Nirmal Baby Varghese" (https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-
music/movie-news/legendary-australian-actor-roger-ward-joins-thariode-the-lost-city-by-nirmal-baby-varghese-1.4902607). Mathrubhumi. 13
July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

External links
Roger Ward (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911818/) at IMDb

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