Biography
Charles Ward was an American actor and ballet dancer. Born in Los Angeles in 1952, he trained as a dancer and performed with the Houston Ballet before joining American Ballet Theatre, where he was a principal dancer for six years and created roles in works by Alvin Ailey, Lar Lubovitch and Anthony Tudor.
In 1978 he left ABT to appear in Bob Fosse’s Broadway musical Dancin’, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination as Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He had roles in four films, including the part of the Butler in Staying Alive (1983), and appeared in television series and specials. Ward died in Glendale, California, in 1986.
