Howard Ward appeared in Coronation Street in July 2016 and April 2017 as Martin, the Mayor of Weatherfield.
He has also appeared in Brookside, The Practice, All Creatures Great and Small, Minder, London's Burning, Between the Lines, Peak Practice, Crimewatch File, Insiders, This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, Burnside, Gypsy Girl, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, EastEnders, Unconditional Love, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Family Affairs, Absolute Power, Amnesia, The Government Inspector, Heartbeat, The Ghost Sqaud, The Bill, Footballers Wive$: Extra Time, Comedy Blaps, Toast of London, Parade's End, Midsomer Murders, Downton Abbey, Drifters, Little Boy Blue, Doctors, Manhunt, Holby City and Casualty. For a younger audience, he voiced the characters Mr Rails and Bakerloo in the children's series Underground Ernie.
Film roles include parts in Cashback, The Broken, The Hide, Lab Rats, London Road, The Children Act and the shorts Left Turn and Out of Nowhere.
As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company he has appeared on stage in The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Balcony, The Great White Hope, The Triumph of the Egg, The Winter's Tale, Speculators, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well while for the Royal National Theatre he has appeared in The Wind in the Willows, The Night of the Iguana, Macbeth, The Mountain Giants, The Mountain Giants, The Good Hope, War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Other stage roles include All My Sons, The Great White Hope, Attempts On Her Life, Under The Black Flag, Coriolanus, The Changeling, Oslo, Pride and Prejudice, Monsieur Popular, German Skerries, Wild Honey, Oslo, Eyam and The Hunt.
