Fred Ward

AKA:
Freddie Joe Ward
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
12/30/1942
Birthplace:
San Diego, California
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biography
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 Continued
Credits
Bat
2007
Don Decker
2004
Lt. Bill Stayton
2002
Earl Smooter
2002
Jupiter
2002
Leo Corrigan
2001
Sean Dunne
2001
Joe's Dad
2001
Elmo Somerset
2000
Police Captain
2000
Earl Edwards
2000
Domenico Venier
1998
FBI Agent Ford
1996
Stuart Kane
1994
Lieutenant Brann
1993
Paris
1993
Walter Stuckel
1992
Earl Basset
1990
Gus Grissom
1983
Morgan
1983
Actor
Father
Ashcroft
Pauling
Sheriff Bud Phillips
John Anglin
Lou Fimple
Jack Milton
Biscuits Toohey
Sergeant Archie Sparks
Sheldon
Actor
Rifleman Lonnie Reece
Roone Dimmick
Sergeant Hoke Moseley
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn
Executive Producer
John McWhirter
Actor
Lyle Swann
Henry Miller
Earl Bassett
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Shuttled among relatives in California, Louisiana, and Texas
 
Joined the Air Force after graduating high school
 
Moved to New York to study acting
 
Supported himself as a janitor and a demolition man in NYC's Hell's Kitchen
 
Worked as a laborer in a New Orleans barrel factory
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