Fred Ward

Fred Ward

Date of Birth: 30 Dec 1942

Country: USA

Biography: Freddie Joe "Fred" Ward is an American actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. He is 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...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 62 (Actor)

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    Abandon
    A senior at an elite college, already under severe pressure to complete her thesis and land a prestigious job, must confront the sudden reappearance of her old boyfriend, after his two year, unexplained absence... (imdb)
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    Corky Romano
    The loser son of a Mafia honcho must go undercover for the FBI.
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    Enough
    An abused wife (Lopez) is forced to go on the run with her 5-year-old daughter to escape her obsessive husband (Campbell). She toughens herself mentally and physically and sets out to prove to him that she's had enough. (Sony)
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    The Player
    A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he'll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots involving the politics of the industry. (imdb)
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    Road Trip
    Josh and Tiffany have been together since they were kids. ENTER Beth, a sexy blonde going to college with Josh. One night, Josh and Beth hook up and make a videotape the same day that Josh plans to mail a video to Tiffany of him talking about college life. The wrong tape gets sent, forcing Josh, along with a few pals, to go to Austin, where Tiffany is, and stop her from seeing the tape. Full of laughs, you'll be sure to enjoy Road Trip. (imdb)
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    Short Cuts
    While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, even on a fishing trip. Starring Andie MacDowell, Fred Ward, 'Jack Lemmon' , Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins. (imdb)
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    Summer Catch
    A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player. (imdb)
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    Sweet Home Alabama
    Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, newly-engaged New Yorker Melanie (Witherspoon) sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past (including her redneck husband), only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl. (Touchstone Pictures)
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    The Right Stuff
    Director Philip Kaufman and a stellar cast -- including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition from breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to the expeditions of the Mercury astronauts in the 1960s. Richly variegated and surprisingly funny, this film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe brilliantly depicts the personal, political and technological achievements it took for America to get ahead in the space race.
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    Tremors
    Natives of a small isolated town, defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one. (imdb)
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    Escape from Alcatraz
    A dramatization of the one possibly successful escape from the notorious prison. (imdb)
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    Silkwood
    The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant. (imdb)
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    Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
    Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards. (imdb)
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    Uncommon Valor
    A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese... (imdb)
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    Dangerous Beauty
    A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. (imdb)
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    Henry & June
    In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others (imdb)
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    Miami Blues
    When sociopath Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave... (imdb)
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    Chain Reaction
    Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason. (imdb)
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    Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
    An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president. (imdb)
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    Tremors II: Aftershocks
    Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) - Direct-to-Video
    Our underground monster-killing heroes from the original Tremors have split up. Soured that everyone else profited from Graboids-mania, Fred Ward "re-enlists" to battle a new breed of Mexican Graboids. (imdb)
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    Thunderheart
    An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage... (imdb)
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    The Dark Wind
    An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation. (imdb)
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    Best Men
    The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend (Luke Wilson) who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girl friend (Drew Barrymore)... (imdb)
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    Carny
    A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. They earn their living by mercilessly taunting spectators to try to dump one of them into the water by throwing balls. Donna is tired of her work as a waitress and follows them through the South. (imdb)
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    Southern Comfort
    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 their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience. (imdb)
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    Big Business
    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 family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory. (imdb)
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    Feast of Love
    A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love. (imdb)
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    Secret Admirer
    On the last day before summer vacations Michael receives a glowing, but anonymous, love-letter. He suspects, or better: hopes, it's from Deborah, the girl he's after since a while, but who dates college students only. However she shows him a cold shoulder again. So his and her best friend Toni advises him to write her an anonymous letter in return... (imdb)
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    Cast a Deadly Spell
    It's the 1940's, and everyone uses magic--except Detective H.P. Lovecraft. A wealthy and secretive man hires him to find his stolen Necronomicon, but Lovecraft suspects the world might be better off if he doesn't hand it over. This bizarre comedy contains zombies, werewolves, hexes, and all the typical elements of hard-boiled detective fiction.
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    Un bruit qui rend fou
    A sailor who was accused of killing a teenage girl and who was presumed to have drowned while making his escape, returns to the Mediterranean island where the alleged crime took place. (imdb)
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    Equinox
    Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large inheritance (imdb)
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    Timerider
    As the film opens, the title character - Lyle Swann - is a well-known dirt bike racer who is in the desert testing a new prototype linkup between his bike and helmet. When Swann accidentally goes miles off course he stumbles across a time travel experiment that utilizes two "cannons" that fire temporal energy to send each other back in time. Swann gets sent back to 1877 but rides off before the time cannons can return him to the future... (wikipedia)
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    10.5
    10.5 (2004) - TV Movie
    An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami. (imdb)
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    Cardiac Arrest
    The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant... (imdb)
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    Swing Shift
    A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an airport plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war. (imdb)
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    Management
    A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
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    Backtrack
    An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit. (imdb)
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    Hearts of the West
    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 of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him. During his escape, Lewis stumbles on to the set of a Wild West movie and through mishap and chance becomes a star of Hollywood Westerns. (imdb)
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    Exit Speed
    On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker. Forced off the road by other members of the gang, the passengers take refuge in the hell hole of an abandoned scrap yard. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a defense against the murderous bikers but, as their numbers dwindle, they realize that their survival depends on doing the unthinkable. They must go on the offensive. (imdb)
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    Armored
    A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof plan divides the group, leading to a potentially deadly resolution. (imdb)
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    Off Limits
    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 Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger. (imdb)
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    UFOria
    Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud, a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While he's helping Brother Bud, he falls in love with Arlene, a local supermarket clerk who believes in UFOs and is deeply religious and deeply lonely. When Arlene has a vision of a coming UFO, everyone deals with it in their own way. (imdb)
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    Farewell
    In the vein of The Lives Of Others and based on an incredible true story, FAREWELL is an espionage film about events that changed history. In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev (Kusturica) of the KGB, disenchanted with the Communist ideal, decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly, he makes contact with Pierre (Canet), a French engineer working in Moscow (imdb)
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    The Chaos Factor
    When he unearths evidence that the CIA carried out a raid of a Cambodian medical facility that led to the loss of innocent lives, intelligence officer Jack Poynt (Antonio Sabato Jr.) sets out to expose the men involved. Of course, the further he wades into a mountain of lies and deception, the closer he gets to endangering his own life.
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    First Do No Harm
    Meryl Streep stars as a mother who goes to extraordinary lengths to help find treatment for her epileptic son. When insurance coverage runs out, she immerses herself in medical research in a last-ditch effort to discover a cure. She learns of a controversial diet that could reduce seizures, but she forges ahead even in the face of intense disapproval.
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    The Last Ride
    After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie (Dennis Hopper) recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl (Fred Ward), the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way is Ronnie's son, whom Darryl raised. (imdb)
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    Two Small Bodies
    A veteran cop becomes obsessed with a woman whom he suspects of kidnapping her own children.
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    Full Disclosure
    Full Disclosure (2001) - Direct-to-Video
    A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist. (imdb)
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    30 Minutes or Less
    Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else... (imdb)
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    Belle Starr
    Belle Starr (1980) - TV Movie
    Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys. (imdb)
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    The Crimson Code
    In this crime thriller, Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) is an FBI agent who is trying to hunt down a serial killer nicknamed "The Silencer" for his habit of cutting out the tongues of his victims. (allrovi.com)
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    Forgotten City
    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 city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness. (imdb)
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    Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
    A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. (imdb)
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    Ginger in the Morning
    An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited independence while she is drawn to his old-fashioned romanticism. (imdb)
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    2 Guns
    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 -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from. (imdb)
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    Florida Straits
    Though set in Cuba, the made-for-cable Florida Straits was lensed in South Carolina. The film is set twenty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion. Raul Julia, Fred Ward and Daniel Jenkins sneak back into Castroland to search for a fortune in gold that had been buried during the abortive 1961 military action. Their mission is complicated by a woman from Julia's past. Scripted by Roderick Taylor, Florida Straits was first telecast on October 26, 1986. (allmovie.com)
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    Invasion: Earth
    Invasion: Earth (1998) - TV Mini-Series
    In the lonely Scottish highlands, a small band of military personnel fight a desperate battle against a formidable alien intruder to prevent an invasion of the Earth. (imdb)
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    The Wild Stallion
    A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
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    The Prince of Pennsylvania
    There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back. (Anonymous)
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    Four Eyes and Six-Guns
    An eye doctor (Judge Reinhold) from New York goes west and takes on outlaws with Marshal Wyatt Earp (Fred Ward) in Tombstone.
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    A.K.A. Birdseye
    The story of Colorado sheriff Nolan Sharpless, who risks everything when the kidnapping of a seemingly innocent Swiss tourist turns into a hunt for one of America's most elusive career criminals. Mixing elements of tabloid journalism and reality TV, Nolan's dogged pursuit of the mysterious Birdseye blazes an outlandish comic trail through the minefield of American society at the turn of the millennium.
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    Tremors
    Tremors (2018) - TV Movie
    A television reboot of the film 'Tremors' in which a small town is gripped with fear over giant underground worms living beneath them. This pilot episode was never released publicly. (imdb)
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