Fred Ward
Highest Rated: 98% The Player (1992)
Lowest Rated: 7% Corky Romano (2001)
Birthday: Dec 30, 1942
Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA
With his varied work experiences, this rough-hewn character lead excels at playing blue collar types and working class heroes. Ward worked in mime and masque theater and performed in cabarets in Europe and Northern Africa before moving to Rome where he translated spaghetti Westerns and appeared in two TV-movies directed by seminal Italian neorealist filmmaker Roberto Rossellini--"The Power of Cosimo" (1974) and "Cartesia" (1975). After some lean times in LA (where he supported himself selling jewelry on the street), Ward made his feature debut as a jailbreak buddy of the even craggier Clint Eastwood in Don Siegel's "Escape From Alcatraz" (1979).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65% | 66% | 2 Guns | Admiral Tuwey (Character) | $75.6M | 2013 |
| 45% | 40% | 30 Minutes or Less | The Major (Character) | $37.1M | 2011 |
| 86% | 76% | Farewell | Ronald Reagan (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 40% | 31% | Armored | Duncan Ashcroft (Character) | $16.0M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | The Wild Stallion | Frank Mills (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 47% | 30% | Management | Jerry (Character) | $933.2K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Exit Speed | Sergeant Archie Sparks (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 39% | 55% | Feast of Love | Bat (Character) | $3.5M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Funky Monkey | Don Decker (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Coast to Coast | Hal Kressler (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | The Last Ride | Darryl Kurtz (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 24% | 45% | Masked and Anonymous | Drunk (Character) | $533.3K | 2003 |
| 16% | 31% | Abandon | Lt. Bill Stayton (Character) | $10.7M | 2002 |
| 39% | 78% | Sweet Home Alabama | Earl (Character) | $127.2M | 2002 |
| 22% | 67% | Enough | Jupiter (Character) | $39.2M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A.K.A. Birdseye | Nolan Sharpless (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 7% | 39% | Corky Romano | Leo Corrigan (Character) | $24.0M | 2001 |
| 8% | 40% | Summer Catch | Sean Dunne (Character) | $19.7M | 2001 |
| 9% | 63% | Joe Dirt | Joe's Dad (Character) | $27.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Iris | Errol Podubney (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Full Disclosure | John McWhirter (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Crimson Code | Retired FBI agent (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Chaos Factor | Max Camden (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | John Vernon "Black Jack" Bouvier III (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 9% | 47% | Circus | Elmo (Character) | $8.4K | 2000 |
| 20% | 43% | The Crow: Salvation | Police Captain (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 57% | 65% | Road Trip | Earl Edwards (Character) | $68.5M | 2000 |
| 13% | 40% | Best Men | Sheriff Phillips (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 68% | 85% | Dangerous Beauty | Domenico Venier (Character) | $4.6M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vivero Letter | Andrew Fallon (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | ...First Do No Harm | Dave Reimuller (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 50% | 46% | Tremors II: Aftershocks | Earl Bassett (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 18% | 27% | Chain Reaction | FBI Agent Leon Ford (Character) | $20.6M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un bruit qui rend fou (The Blue Villa) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 54% | 53% | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | Rocco Dillon (Character) | $48.1M | 1994 |
| 33% | 41% | Equinox | Mr. Paris (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 95% | 88% | Short Cuts | Stuart Kane (Character) | $6.1M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Luck, Trust and Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Small Bodies | Lt. Brann (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 98% | 84% | The Player | Walter Stuckel (Character) | $21.7M | 1992 |
| 89% | 75% | Thunderheart | Jack Milton (Character) | $20.1M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Four Eyes and Six-Guns | Wyatt Earp (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Cast a Deadly Spell | Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | The Dark Wind | Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 87% | 75% | Tremors | Earl Bassett (Character) | $15.5M | 1990 |
| 82% | 55% | Miami Blues |
Sgt. Hoke Moseley (Character), Executive Producer |
$8.8M | 1990 |
| 65% | 68% | Henry & June | Henry Miller (Character) | $11.0M | 1990 |
| 50% | 25% | Backtrack | Pauling (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 14% | 49% | The Prince of Pennsylvania | Gary Marshetta (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 44% | 69% | Big Business | Roone Dimmick (Character) | $39.6M | 1988 |
| 45% | 32% | Off Limits | Dix (Character) | $6.9M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Train of Dreams | Teacher (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Florida Straits | Lucky Boone (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 41% | 58% | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Remo Williams (Character) | $14.4M | 1985 |
| 30% | 64% | Secret Admirer | Lou Fimple (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 87% | 41% | Swing Shift | Unknown (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 76% | 78% | Silkwood | Morgan (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 60% | 61% | Uncommon Valor | Wilkes (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 96% | 90% | The Right Stuff | Gus Grissom (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Time Rider | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Timerider | Lyle Swann (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 79% | 75% | Southern Comfort | Reece (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Belle Starr | Ned Christie (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | UFOria | Sheldon Bart (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 96% | 85% | Escape From Alcatraz | John Anglin (Character) | - | 1979 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 75% | True Detective | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 92% | 88% | Leverage | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 85% | 86% | United States of Tara | Frank (Guest Star) | 2009-2010 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | In Plain Sight |
Frank Jergens / |
2010 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | ER | Eddie Wyczenski (Guest Star) | 2006-2007 |
| 84% | 75% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 10.5 | Unknown (Character) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Invasion: Earth | Unknown (Character) | 1998 |
| 57% | No Score Yet | Gun | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |