(written from a Production point of view)
William Ward is an actor who appeared as the Portage Creek bartender in the Star Trek: Voyager fifth season episode "11:59". He received no credit for this appearance but is listed on the call sheet.
Ward's earliest credit was in 1980 as a photographer in the drama The Jayne Mansfield Story where he worked with Ray Buktenica, Whitney Rydbeck, Gwen Van Dam, and Charles Parks.
Further acting work includes episodes of Fame (1982), Open All Night (1982), Murder, She Wrote (1985, with Barrie Ingham), Cheers (1985, with Lee Allen, Joseph Paz, and Nick Trisko), Mr. Belvedere (1987), and Cybill (1995, episode "The Replacements" with Jeff Allin, Sylvester Foster, and Irving Ross, 1995 episode "Zing!" with Irving Ross and William Steinfeldt, and 1996 episode "Cybill Does Diary" with William Steinfeldt). He also worked on the drama Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983, with Alan Scarfe), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990, with Lloyd Bridges, Sidney S. Liufau, Amanda Plummer, Carol Kane and Branscombe Richmond), and the short film The Associate (1991, with Conrad Hurtt).