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 --...

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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...

Max

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...

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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.

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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...

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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