Freddie Joe Ward was born in San Diego on December 30,1942.
24 Facts About Fred Ward
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Fred Ward's father was an alcoholic criminal who was repeatedly imprisoned and his mother left him when Fred was three.
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Fred Ward was then raised by his grandmother until his mother had rebuilt her life and remarried a carnival worker.
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Fred Ward was a boxer and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska, a janitor, and a short-order cook.
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Fred Ward studied acting at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio after serving in the US Air Force.
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Fred Ward became an actor after studying at Herbert Berghof Studio and in Rome.
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Fred Ward made his first American film appearance playing a cowboy in Hearts of the West.
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Fred Ward played a violent National Guardsman in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort.
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Fred Ward's first starring role in a motion picture was Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann.
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Fred Ward then starred as astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff, in the action movie Uncommon Valor with Gene Hackman, and in the drama Silkwood.
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Fred Ward played in a few low-budget productions until he returned to major cinema in 1988 as a cop in Off Limits, as Roone Dimmick in Big Business, and the father of Keanu Reeves' character in The Prince of Pennsylvania.
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Lovecraft in the 1991 HBO film Cast a Deadly Spell alongside Julianne Moore, Fred Ward co-starred in the thriller Thunderheart, the Hollywood satire The Player, the mystery-drama Equinox and the TV western-comedy Four Eyes and Six Guns, for which he won a Cable ACE Award.
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Fred Ward did a cameo in Bob Roberts, starring Tim Robbins.
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Fred Ward appeared as Sheriff Bud Phillips in Best Men, as Dave Reimuller in.
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Fred Ward was seen in many motion pictures, TV shows and videos in 2000.
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Fred Ward starred in the action-thriller The Chaos Factor and appeared in the gangster movie Circus, the teen movie Road Trip and the horror sequel The Crow: Salvation.
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In 2001, Fred Ward was nominated for a Video Premiere Award as the best male actor for the direct-to-video-production Full Disclosure.
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Fred Ward co-starred in Joe Dirt, Summer Catch, Wild Iris, the mini-TV-series Dice and the comedic Corky Romano.
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In 2002, Fred Ward appeared in Sweet Home Alabama, Enough and Abandon.
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Fred Ward had the starring role in Birdseye and signed in for the TV pilot for the drama Georgetown with Helen Mirren, but the series was never made.
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Fred Ward was next in the ensemble drama Feast of Love, the thriller Exit Speed, Management with Jennifer Aniston, The Wild Stallion DVD and as the boss Ashcroft in Armored.
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Fred Ward guest starred as Ronald Reagan in the French political thriller L'affaire Farewell.
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Fred Ward appeared in 30 Minutes or Less, guest starred in the TV series United States of Tara, In Plain Sight and Leverage in 2012.
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Fred Ward married Marie-France Boisselle in 1995 and she filed for divorce in August 2013, but they reconciled later that year.