Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Creature (1984), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Milk and Honey (1988).
Ward also played a minor role in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) as John, one of the marketers.
Ward met Cindy Pickett on the set of Ferris Bueller, where they played the parents of the teenage protagonist in the 1986 film.
They married in real life, had two children together, then divorced shortly after playing the parents of the teenage protagonist in the 1992 film Sleepwalkers.
[2][3] Ward published a novel titled Fortune's Tide in 2016, a historical fiction based in his home town of Saint John.