 Despite his success as a writer, 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 alongside such luminaries 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 "Mad Max" he created the memorable "Fifi" the bald headed police hall captain, "The Man From Hong Kong" had him as the bumbling Aussie cop, Inspector Bob Taylor.