Cast: Fred Ward
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Fred Ward. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Clint Eastwood · Patrick McGoohan · Roberts Blossom · Jack Thibeau
Plot San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz --...
7.6
33K votes
7.6
33K votes
Short Cuts
1993 · Movie · 188 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins
Plot Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents...
7.5
10K votes
7.5
10K votes
The Player
1992 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Tim Robbins · Greta Scacchi · Dina Merrill · Whoopi Goldberg
Plot Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles...
7.0
6K votes
7.0
6K votes
The Right Stuff
1983 · Movie · 193 min. · United States
Direction Philip Kaufman
Cast Scott Glenn · Ed Harris · Barbara Hershey · Dennis Quaid
Plot Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by...
6.8
4K votes
6.8
4K votes
Bob Roberts
1992 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Tim Robbins
Cast Tim Robbins · Giancarlo Esposito · Ray Wise · Rebecca Jenkins
Plot A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
True Detective II (TV Miniseries)
2015 · Series · 55 min. · United States
Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Justin Lin · Janus Metz Pedersen · Miguel Sapochnik
Cast Colin Farrell · Vince Vaughn · Rachel McAdams · Taylor Kitsch
Plot TV Series (2015). 8 Episodes. Second season from the acclaimed HBO Series created by Nic Pizzolatto. When California Highway Patrol officer and war veteran Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) discovers a...
6.6
18K votes
6.6
18K votes
Silkwood
1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson
Plot Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Southern Comfort
1981 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Keith Carradine · Powers Boothe · Fred Ward · Peter Coyote
Plot 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...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Farewell
2009 · Movie · 112 min. · France
Direction Christian Carion
Cast Emir Kusturica · Guillaume Canet · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · David Soul
Plot At the height of the Cold War, a KGB officer contacts the French government with an offer of information. Starring two filmmakers in the lead roles, Guillaume Canet (Tell No...
6.2
4K votes
6.2
4K votes
Dangerous Beauty
1998 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Herskovitz
Cast Catherine McCormack · Rufus Sewell · Jacqueline Bisset · Oliver Platt
Plot Prevented from marrying her nobleman lover, a common woman in 16th-century Venice is left with two choices: join a convent or become a courtesan. She has beauty. She has brains....
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
2 Guns
2013 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Baltasar Kormákur
Cast Mark Wahlberg · Denzel Washington · Paula Patton · Bill Paxton
Plot For the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as...
5.8
15K votes
5.8
15K votes
Feast of Love
2007 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert Benton
Cast Morgan Freeman · Greg Kinnear · Selma Blair · Radha Mitchell
Plot 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...
5.7
3K votes
5.7
3K votes
Henry & June
1990 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Philip Kaufman
Cast Fred Ward · María de Medeiros · Uma Thurman · Richard E. Grant
Plot 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...
5.7
2K votes
5.7
2K votes
Cast a Deadly Spell (TV)
1991 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Martin Campbell
Cast Fred Ward · Julianne Moore · David Warner · Clancy Brown
Plot In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
5.6
295 votes
5.6
295 votes
Thunderheart
1992 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Michael Apted
Cast Val Kilmer · Sam Shepard · Graham Greene · Fred Ward
Plot Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) buried his Native American heritage with the body of his drunken father. Raised by his white mother and stepfather, he becomes a gung-ho federal agent...
5.5
1K votes
5.5
1K votes
Off Limits
1988 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Christopher Crowe
Cast Willem Dafoe · Gregory Hines · Amanda Pays · Fred Ward
Plot 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...
5.5
660 votes
5.5
660 votes
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
1994 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Peter Segal
Cast Leslie Nielsen · Priscila Presley · Fred Ward · George Kennedy
Plot Lt. Frank Drebin has finally retired. Now that he's settled down and married goofy Jane Spencer, he plans to lead a quiet life. But before long, Frank's old buddies talk...
5.5
15K votes
5.5
15K votes
Miami Blues
1990 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Armitage
Cast Alec Baldwin · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Fred Ward · Nora Dunn
Plot When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college...
5.4
739 votes
5.4
739 votes
Tremors
1990 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Ron Underwood
Cast Kevin Bacon · Fred Ward · Finn Carter · Michael Gross
Plot Two country handymen, Earl Basset and Valentine McKee, discover that their desolate town of Perfection, Nevada is infested with gigantic man-eating wormlike creatures that live below ground. The slightest vibration...
5.4
12K votes
5.4
12K votes
...First Do No Harm (TV)
1997 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Jim Abrahams
Cast Meryl Streep · Fred Ward · Seth Adkins · Allison Janney
Plot When Lori Reimuller (Meryl Streep) learns that her young son Robbie (Seth Adkins) has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it...
5.4
172 votes
5.4
172 votes