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Fred Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. Ward was born Freddie Joe Ward in San Diego, California, of part Cherokee 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. Ward is divorced from Silvia Ward and is currently married to Marie-France Ward.
Ward 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 1970s, 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). 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 Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) (written by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees fame and with whom Ward shares the same birthdate), astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff (1983), the overbearing father in Secret Admirer (1985), the character Remo Williams in the action movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), Earl Bassett in Tremors (1990) (which he reprised in Tremors 2: Aftershocks (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). Ward and Peter Coyote both starred in Southern Comfort and Timerider. Both actors played characters called Reese in the two films. Ward in Southern Comfort and Coyote in Timerider. Ward has continued to be active through the 1990s and 2000s, with roles in films such as Bob Roberts (1992), Naked Gun 33¨÷: The Final Insult (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. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ward |
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BiographyFriends and FamilyEd Harris [Friend]Trivia and QuotesQuotes 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. 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 decided to act when I was in the Air Force. I was going with a stripper in San Antonio, hanging out with some bizarre fringe people - who considered themselves "show people" - including this 250-pound transvestite who designed costumes for strip joints, and a few gangsters. I was a young kid in the middle of this stuff, and it led to my decision. They weren`t role models in a strict sense; more like the old freaks in the freak show. When I was younger I always felt like an outsider, and they said it was all right to be "the other." They had a nice little society, a little culture, and they dealt with life. So, as soon as I got out of the Air Force, I went right to New York. I figured that I could do anything I wanted. I had no one to answer to, nothing holding me back. - On when he decided to become an actor. Timber faller. It`s the most dangerous, aside from combat, that you can ever have. There are a lot of ways you can get killed. A tree can "barber chair" - come back on you. "Widowmakers," which are dead limbs, can fall out. You can`t predict what a tree will do sometimes. You have to watch sawdust and make sure the tree`s not rotting. If it is, it might split on you. It`s dangerous, it`s hot - it`s hard work. You have a big chain a saw that`s rattling away and bouncing around, and you`re slipping and sliding and standing on land that`s sometimes nearly straight up and down. It can get crazy. On the other hand, I never wanted to work in an office under fluorescent lights. - On the toughest job he ever had. At one point I was doing theater in San Francisco and actually living in the theater. I was broke. I was boxing - working out in a gym - and this trainer got me into the union. He started putting all the guys in his stable into the union. So I started making money, stopped acting and saved, to get to Europe. I kept moving around. Three years later I started acting again, because acting drove me. But I was still restless. I studied acting in New York for only six months before I wanted to get a ship for Europe. I`d heard that in Brooklyn you could get into the Scandinavian maritime union and get a ship without having papers. Wound up in Florida, then New Orleans, then Houston. I eventually came to California, worked in a bowling alley as a short-order cook. I drifted, picked tomatoes and beans and lived in labor camps in Ventura County. I wound up in Big Sur. I just kept moving. I went to Ketchikan, Alaska, lived with the Indians in stilt houses, worked in a lumber mill. And I still knew I would get back into acting. Eventually I traveled to Yugoslavia on a freighter, then went to Valencia, Spain and then on to Tangier. I spent three months in Morocco. I wound up in Rome - and finally started acting. - On his life before acting.Trivia Was a boxer. Good friends with Ed Harris. Is of Scots-Irish and Cherokee Indian descent Loves France and travels there often. Divorced from wife after 20 years of marriage. Has appeared in 3 movies whose title contains a US state: Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Florida Straits (1986) (TV) and The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988) He was originally credited for the role as Asher in _These Woods (2006)_. Once worked as a lumberjack in Alaska Is of Scots-Irish and Cherokee Indian descent. Has appeared in 3 movies whose title contains a US state: Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Florida Straits (1986) (TV) and The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988). His mother died when he was 13 years old. Chosen by Action Film magazine as one of the 10 Top Action Film Stars (#9). [1990] Divorced from wife Silvia after 20 years of marriage. His son Django is named after the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. When he lived in Italy he made money dubbing spaghetti westerns into English. As an amateur boxer he had his nose broken four times. Loves France and travels there often.
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