The acclaimed actor Simon Ward, who made his name in Richard Attenborough’s Churchill biopic Young Winston, has died aged 70 after a long illness.
His wife Alexandra and daughters Sophie, Claudia and Kitty, who is married to comedian Michael McIntyre, were by his bedside when he died in his sleep on Friday.
The son of a car dealer from Beckenham in Kent, Ward decided to go into acting when he was in his teens.
He joined the National Youth Theatre at 13 before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
His first break came in 1967 when he played the lead in Joe Orton’s dark satire Loot in the West End.
His film career began five years later after Attenborough picked him for the title role in Young Winston, alongside Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
He went on to play the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers, William Vereker in Zulu Dawn and author and veterinarian James Herriot in the film adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small.
He starred alongside his daughter Sophie in Wuthering Heights and ITV1’s Heartbeat, and more recently appeared in the historical drama The Tudors.
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