FRED WARD

'Frederick Ward' (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. He began his career 1979 on the side of Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. Philip Kaufman once called him "The first cult actor of 2000".

Contents

Early life

Career

Personal life

Awards

Quotes

Selected filmography

External links

Early life

Ward was born in San Diego, California of Scottish-Irish and Native American descent. Before acting, Ward spent three years in the United States Air Force. He was also a boxer, and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska.
He became an actor after studying at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio and in Rome. While in Italy he dubbed Italian movies and worked as a mime until he made his debut in two Roberto Rossellini films. Upon returning stateside in the early '70s, Ward spent time working in experimental theater and doing some television work. He made his first American film appearance playing a cowboy in ''Hearts of the West'' (1975).

Career

His first major role came in the Clint Eastwood vehicle ''Escape from Alcatraz'' (1979) as fellow escapee John Anglin. He was also notable as a violent National Guardsman in Walter Hill's ''Southern Comfort'' (1981).
Other notable film roles include '' (1982), astronaut Gus Grissom in ''The Right Stuff'' (1983), the overbearing father in ''Secret Admirer'' (1985), the action movie '' (1985), Earl Bassett in ''Tremors'' (1989) (which he reprised in '' (1996)), the writer Henry Miller in Philip Kaufman's ''Henry & June'' (1990), Sgt. Hoke Mosely in ''Miami Blues'' (1990), and the covert security chief in Robert Altman's Hollywood satire ''The Player'' (1992).
Fred Ward has continued to be active through the 1990s and 2000s, with roles in films such as ''Bob Roberts (1992)'', '' (1994) (which parodied his first film Escape from Alcatraz), ''Chain Reaction'' (1996), ''The Chaos Factor'' (2000), and ''Sweet Home Alabama'' (2002). He has enjoyed success in comedies, dramas and action thrillers.

Personal life

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Ward is divorced from Silvia Ward and currently married to Marie-France Ward.

Awards

★ 2006: JTPC Award - ''Henry & June'' (Nomination?)

★ 2001: Video Premiere Award - ''Full Discosure'' (Nomination)

★ 1993: Volpi Cup - ''Short Cuts''

★ 1993: Golden Globe - ''Short Cuts''

Quotes

★ When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

★ Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

★ But a woman will only understand a man up to a certain point. There's a limit to it.

★ I think it's better for the picture to have as much of me as it can. But I also cherish getting down and doing some acting.

★ I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

★ I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

★ (About '']''): I'm not a hero about stunts, but I want to put my movement into it whenever I can. I do lots of fighting, climbing, hanging and swinging around.

★ My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.

★ There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

★ There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

★ Sometimes life comes and hits you in the face like a tire iron...And sometimes, a world of plastic surgery will still be unable to fix the damage.

★ Tremors 2 Quotes: "You smoked his ass!"; "You like that, huh?"; "Look! (slams fridge door) No way!"; "So, uh.... (insert all of his lines here)"; "Who are you? And why are you so dumb?!"; "So what? A man can shave, can't he?"; "Size-mo-jigger"

Selected filmography

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Year	Film	Role	Chart Record
2008	''Nick Fury''	Nick Fury (in talks) (attached)	Announced
2007	''The I Scream Man''	Vernon Stichin (attached)	Pre-Production
2007	''Exit Speed''	Sergeant Archie Sparks	Filming
2007	''Feast of Love''	Bat	Completed
2007	''The Wild Stallion''	Frank Mills	Completed
2006	''ER''	Eddie	TV Series
2006	''Grey's Anatomy: What I am''	Mr. Denny Duquette, Sr.	TV Episode
2004	''The Last Ride''	Darryl Kurtz	TV Event
2004	''10.5''	Roy Nolan	TV Event
2004	''Coast to Coast''	Hal Kressler	TV Event
2003	''Masked & Anonymous''	Drunk	45
2003	''T-20 Years and Counting''	Gus Grissom/Himsef (Archive Footage)	Documentary
2003	''Realizing "The Right Stuff"''	Himself	Documentary
2003	''"Masked & Anonymous" Exposed''	Special Thanks	Documentary
2002	''Live from Baghdad''	(Archive Footage)	TV Special/Documentary
2002	''Enough''	Jupiter	5
2002	''Sweet Home Alabama''	Earl Smooter	1
2002	''A.K.A. Birdseye''	Sheriff Nolan Sharpless
2002	''Abandon (film)''	Lieutenant Bill Stayton	7
2001	''Summer Catch''	Sean Dunne	6
2001	''Corky Romano''	Leo Corrigan	3
2001	''Joe Dirt''	Joe's Dad	4
2001	''Full Disclosure''	John McWhirter	Direct-to-video
2001	''Wild Iris''	Errol Podubney	TV Event
2001	''Dice''	Gacy/Noah Aldis	TV-Mini-Series
2000	''	John, the Police Captain
2000	''Ropewalk''	David's Father
2000	''The Chaos Factor''	Max Camden
2000	''Circus''	Elmo Somerset	96
2000	''Road Trip''	Earl Edwards	3
2000	''Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis''	"Black Jack" Bouvier	TV
1999	''The Crimson Code''	Randall Brooks
1998	''The Making of Tremors''	Himself/Earl Bassett (Archive Footage)	Documentary
1998	''The Vivero Letter''	Andrew Fallon
1998	''	Major General David Reece	TV-Mini-Series
1998	''Dangerous Beauty''	Domenico Venier	16
1997	''First Do No Harm''	Dave Reimüller	TV Event
1997	''Best Men''	Sheriff Bud Phillips
1997	''Gun (TV Series): Father John''	John Farragut	TV Episode
1996	''The West''	Himself (voice)	Documentary
1996	''Chain Reaction''	FBI Agent Leon Ford	4
1996	''	Earl Bassett	Direct-to-video
1995	''Un bruit qui rend fou''	Frank, the sailor	Festival event
1994	''	Rocco Dillon	1
1993	''Luck, Trust & Ketchup''	Himself	Documentary
1993	''Short Cuts''	Stuart Kane
1993	''Two Small Bodies''	Lieutenant Brann	Festival event, also TV production
1992	''Four Eyes and Six Guns''	Wyatt Earp	TV
1992	''The Player''	Walter Stuckel	4
1992	''Equinox (1992 film)''	Mr. Paris
1992	''Thunderheart''	Jack Milton	5
1992	''Bob Roberts''	TV News Anchor Chip Daley
1991	''Cast a Deadly Spell''	Det. Harry Phillips Lovecraft	TV Event
1991	''The Dark Wind''	Joe Leaphorn
1990	''Henry & June''	Henry Miller, Soundtrack	10
1990	''Miami Blues''	Sgt. Hoke Moseley, Producer
1989	''Tremors''	Earl Bassett	5
1988	''Catchfire''	Police Officer Pauling
1988	''The Prince of Pennsylvania''	Gary Marshetta
1988	''Big Business''	Roone Dimmick	3
1988	''Off Limits''	Sgt. Benjamin Dix	4
1987	''The Price of Life''		Short feature
1987	''The Hitchhiker: Dead Heat''	Luther Redmond	TV Episode
1986	''Florida Straits''	Lucky Boone	TV, Later Cinema
1985	''	Remo Williams, Samuel Edward Macon	4
1985	''Secret Admirer''	Lt. Lou Fimple	9
1985	''Noon Wine''	Royal Earle Thompson	TV
1984	''Swing Shift''	Archibald "Biscuits" Toue	9
1983	''Silkwood''	Morgan	1
1983	''Uncommon Valor''	Wilkes	5
1983	''The Right Stuff''	Capt. Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom	6
1982	''	Lyle Swan
1981	''Southern Comfort''	Cpl. Lonnie Reece
1980	''UFOria''	Waylon Jennings Imitator, Sheldon Bart
1980	''Carny''	Jack
1980	''Cardiac Arrest''	Jamie
1980	''Belle Starr''	Ned Christie	TV
1979	''Escape from Alcatraz''	John Anglin	1
1979	''The Incredible Hulk''	Henchman/Jake	2 TV Episodes
1978	''Tilt''
1978	''Quincy M.E.: Even Odds''	Crane	TV Episode
1975	''Hearts of the West''	Sam
1974	''Cartesius''		TV
1973	''The Power of Cosimo (L' Eta di Cosimo de Medici''	Niccolo de Conti	TV

External links

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