Fred Ward

Fred Ward

1942-12-30 San Diego, California, USA 73 Credits

Biography

Fred Ward (December 30, 1942 - May 5, 2022) was an American actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. He was best known for his starring roles in the motion pictures Remo Williams, Tremors, Henry & June, Short Cuts, The Right Stuff and Exit Speed. Ward also acted in European movies.

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2 Guns

2 Guns

2013

as Admiral Tuwey

6.5
Acting

A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- ...

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less

2011

as The Major

5.8
Acting

Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and advise him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

Armored

Armored

2009

as Duncan Ashcroft

5.7
Acting

A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with...

The Wild Stallion

The Wild Stallion

2009

as Frank

6.1
Acting

C.J. and Hanna become the greatest of friends when the latter visits the former on the ranch where she lives, with the purpose of photographing the ho...

Farewell

Farewell

2009

as Ronald Reagan

6.5
Acting

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Af...

Management

Management

2009

as Jerry

5.4
Acting

A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.

Exit Speed

Exit Speed

2008

as Sgt. Archie Sparks

5.2
Acting

On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge i...

Feast of Love

Feast of Love

2007

as Bat

6.2
Acting

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, myst...

Funky Monkey

Funky Monkey

2004

as Don Decker (scenes deleted)

6.0
Acting

A teen genius teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange, the scientist gives the tee...

The Last Ride

The Last Ride

2004

as Darryl Kurtz

4.3
Acting

After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way i...

Coast to Coast

Coast to Coast

2004

as Hal Kressler

6.6
Acting

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and the...

Masked and Anonymous

Masked and Anonymous

2003

as Drunk

5.0
Acting

A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on ...

Abandon

Abandon

2002

as Bill Stayton

4.8
Acting

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...

Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

2002

as Earl Smooter

6.4
Acting

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

Birdseye

Birdseye

2002

as Nolan Sharpless

Acting

A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal.

Enough

Enough

2002

as Jupiter

6.7
Acting

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of thei...

Corky Romano

Corky Romano

2001

as Leo Corrigan

4.3
Acting

Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to inf...

Summer Catch

Summer Catch

2001

as Sean Dunne

5.4
Acting

Local boy Ryan Dunne, now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish, the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley...

Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure

2001

as John McWhirter

3.4
Acting

A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.

Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt

2001

as Joe's Dad

5.6
Acting

Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligere...

Wild Iris

Wild Iris

2001

as Errol Podubney

7.0
Acting

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000

as John Vernon "Black Jack" Bouvier III

Acting

Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.

The Vivero Letter

The Vivero Letter

2000

as Andrew Fallon

5.3
Acting

A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost...

Road Trip

Road Trip

2000

as Earl Edwards

6.2
Acting

After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the ...

Circus

Circus

2000

as Elmo

5.0
Acting

Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he ...

The Chaos Factor

The Chaos Factor

2000

as Max Camden

4.6
Acting

An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.

The Crow: Salvation

The Crow: Salvation

2000

as The Captain

5.5
Acting

Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.

Altman on His Own Terms

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

Acting

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...

Red Team

Red Team

1999

as Randall Brooks

3.3
Acting

FBI Agent Jason Chandler has devoted his life to enforcing the law. But on the trail of a series of mysterious murders surrounding some of society's d...

Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

1998

as Domenico Venier

7.1
Acting

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

Best Men

Best Men

1997

as Sheriff Phillips

5.3
Acting

Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from t...

Gun

Gun

1997

as John Farragut

7.0
Acting

Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.

...First Do No Harm

...First Do No Harm

1997

as Dave Reimuller

6.9
Acting

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under c...

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction

1996

as FBI Agent Leon Ford

5.8
Acting

At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of ...

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

1996

as Earl Bassett

6.3
Acting

Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican o...

The Blue Villa

The Blue Villa

1995

as Frank

4.8
Acting

The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysterious...

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994

as Rocco

6.5
Acting

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh...

Short Cuts

Short Cuts

1993

as Stuart Kane

7.2
Acting

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Two Small Bodies

Two Small Bodies

1993

as Lt. Brann

5.0
Acting

Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself....

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

1993

as Self

6.0
Acting

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

1992

as Wyatt Earp

2.5
Acting

Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombst...

Equinox

Equinox

1992

as Mr. Paris

5.6
Acting

Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer...

Bob Roberts

Bob Roberts

1992

as Chip Daley

6.5
Acting

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

The Dark Wind

The Dark Wind

1992

as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn

5.3
Acting

An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

The Player

The Player

1992

as Walter Stuckel

7.2
Acting

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992

as Jack Milton

6.3
Acting

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Cast a Deadly Spell

Cast a Deadly Spell

1991

as Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft

6.1
Acting

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Henry & June

Henry & June

1990

as Henry Miller

6.1
Acting

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexu...

Miami Blues

Miami Blues

1990

as Sergeant Hoke Moseley

6.0
Acting

After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...

Miami Blues

Miami Blues

1990

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...

Catchfire

Catchfire

1990

as Pauling

5.3
Acting

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...

Tremors

Tremors

1990

as Earl Bassett

6.9
Acting

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating crea...

The Prince of Pennsylvania

The Prince of Pennsylvania

1988

as Gary Marshetta

5.6
Acting

Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk r...

Big Business

Big Business

1988

as Roone Dimmick

6.4
Acting

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local...

Off Limits

Off Limits

1988

as Dix

5.6
Acting

McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time ...

The Price of Life

The Price of Life

1987

6.0
Acting

The hours of your life as a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander...

Florida Straits

Florida Straits

1986

as Lucky Boone

5.0
Acting

A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a c...

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

1985

as Remo Williams

6.2
Acting

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Secret Admirer

Secret Admirer

1985

as Lou Fimple

6.8
Acting

An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in conta...

Noon Wine

Noon Wine

1985

as Royal Earle Thompson

Acting

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century fo...

UFOria

UFOria

1984

as Sheldon Bart

5.6
Acting

Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into fa...

Swing Shift

Swing Shift

1984

as Biscuits Toohey

5.6
Acting

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...

Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor

1983

as Wilkes

6.2
Acting

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Silkwood

Silkwood

1983

as Morgan

7.0
Acting

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

1983

as Gus Grissom

7.4
Acting

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

1982

as Lyle Swann

5.3
Acting

Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's f...

Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

1981

as Reece

6.9
Acting

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing ...

Carny

Carny

1980

as Jack

6.4
Acting

Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional tr...

Belle Starr

Belle Starr

1980

as Ned Christie

6.0
Acting

Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest

1980

as Jamie

3.6
Acting

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide co...

Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

1979

as John Anglin

7.5
Acting

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...

Hearts of the West

Hearts of the West

1975

as Sam (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession ...

Ginger in the Morning

Ginger in the Morning

1973

as Truck Driver

4.3
Acting

A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.