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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

2 Guns
2013
as Admiral Tuwey
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
2011
as The Major
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
2009
as Duncan Ashcroft
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
2009
as Frank
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
2009
as Ronald Reagan
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
2009
as Jerry
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.

Exit Speed
2008
as Sgt. Archie Sparks
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
2007
as Bat
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
2004
as Don Decker (scenes deleted)
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
2004
as Darryl Kurtz
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
2004
as Hal Kressler
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
2003
as Drunk
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on ...

Abandon
2002
as Bill Stayton
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
2002
as Earl Smooter
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
2002
as Nolan Sharpless
A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal.

Enough
2002
as Jupiter
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
2001
as Leo Corrigan
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
2001
as Sean Dunne
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
2001
as John McWhirter
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.

Joe Dirt
2001
as Joe's Dad
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
2001
as Errol Podubney
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as John Vernon "Black Jack" Bouvier III
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
2000
as Andrew Fallon
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
2000
as Earl Edwards
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
2000
as Elmo
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
2000
as Max Camden
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.

The Crow: Salvation
2000
as The Captain
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
2000
as Self
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
1999
as Randall Brooks
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
1998
as Domenico Venier
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
1997
as Sheriff Phillips
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
1997
as John Farragut
Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.

...First Do No Harm
1997
as Dave Reimuller
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
1996
as FBI Agent Leon Ford
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
1996
as Earl Bassett
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
1995
as Frank
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
1994
as Rocco
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
1993
as Stuart Kane
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
1993
as Lt. Brann
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
1993
as Self
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
as Wyatt Earp
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
1992
as Mr. Paris
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
1992
as Chip Daley
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

The Dark Wind
1992
as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

The Player
1992
as Walter Stuckel
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Thunderheart
1992
as Jack Milton
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
1991
as Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Henry & June
1990
as Henry Miller
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
1990
as Sergeant Hoke Moseley
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
1990
Executive Producer
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
1990
as Pauling
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
1990
as Earl Bassett
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
1988
as Gary Marshetta
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
1988
as Roone Dimmick
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
1988
as Dix
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
1987
The hours of your life as a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander...

Florida Straits
1986
as Lucky Boone
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
1985
as Remo Williams
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Secret Admirer
1985
as Lou Fimple
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
1985
as Royal Earle Thompson
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
1984
as Sheldon Bart
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
1984
as Biscuits Toohey
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
1983
as Wilkes
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Silkwood
1983
as Morgan
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

The Right Stuff
1983
as Gus Grissom
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
1982
as Lyle Swann
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
1981
as Reece
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
1980
as Jack
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
1980
as Ned Christie
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
1980
as Jamie
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
1979
as John Anglin
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
1975
as Sam (uncredited)
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
1973
as Truck Driver
A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.