Served in Army Special Forces during World War II.
In 1969, Warde was recruited by University of Southern California neurology professor Dr. Howard Barrows to act as a patient, simulating symptoms of neurological disease in instructional videos made for medical school students.
Played an American consul in Sayonara and a Navy chaplain in Cry For Happy. These two movies were consecutive films for Miyoshi Umeki, and in each, Warde's character performed the marriage ceremony for her character.