---
name: "Charles Ward"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-ward"
fi1m_id: "charles-ward"
tmdb_id: 1651546
roles: ["Actor"]
died: "11 July 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:13:58.464418+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charles Ward

## Identity

Charles Ward

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-ward
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-ward
- **TMDB ID:** 1651546
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1651546

Actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 11 July 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Died:** 11 July 1986
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1651546

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Staying Alive* (1983), Fi1m 38, as Butler — [page](https://film.one/film/staying-alive.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Staying Alive* (1983), as Butler — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/staying-alive.md)

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