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  • Tremors
  • Tremors review by from Preston, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars This film will leave you trem-bling. 7 November 2005
    ...iller mutated worms rising from the ground for lunch. Quality, Keving Bacon and Fred Ward rule the screen as the hapless duo who are left to fight the worms with guns, s...   Read customer review
  • Escape From Alcatraz
  • Escape From Alcatraz review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 26 October 2005
    ...hom he'll make his escape. Among his break-out buddies are the Anglin Brothers (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), with whom he'd served in other lockups, and several others w...   Read customer review
  • Remo - Unarmed And Dangerous
  • Remo - Unarmed And Dangerous review by from North Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars Classic kitch 7 October 2005
    ...Fred Ward being taught how to dodge bullits by wise old incredibly sarcastic master fantstic. Great action plenty of daft stunts and most importantly plenty of laughs. D...   Read customer review

Fred Ward - filmography


  • Armored - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Milo Ventimiglia,  Matt Dillon,  Fred Ward
    Director: Nimrod Antal
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist - against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,814 members
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  • Armored on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Milo Ventimiglia,  Matt Dillon,  Fred Ward
    Director: Nimrod Antal
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist - against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,840 members
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  • Farewell (2009)
    Starring: Emir Kusturica,  Guillaume Canet,  Alexandra Maria Lara
    Director: Christian Carion
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas), Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 32 members
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  • Exit Speed on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Desmond Harrington,  Lea Thompson,  Julie Mond
    Director: Scott Ziehl
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker. Forced off the road by other members of the gang, the passengers take refuge in the hell hole of an abandoned scrap yard. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 92 members
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  • Coast To Coast on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Judy Davis,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Judy Davis
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    City by city, mile by mile, a married couple on the verge of a breakup travel across the country to revisit their tumultuous past and rediscover what it means to fall in and out of love - and maybe back again. With each new stop comes a new revelation for the couple - a chance to expose their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 113 members
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  • Abandon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Benjamin Bratt,  Charlie Hunnam
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a dense, moody psychological thriller. Loosely based on the book ADAM'S FALL by Sean Desmond, ABANDON tells the troubled story of Katie (Katie Holmes), a college senior who's having a tough time keeping ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 847 members
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  • Joe Dirt on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Adam Beach,  Jaime Pressly,  Caroline Aaron
    Director: Dennie Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Full of raunchy, tasteless, hilarious gags, JOE DIRT follows its eponymous protagonist (David Spade) on the search for his long-lost parents. Working as the janitor at a radio station, he enlists the help of one of the deejays (Dennis Miller) to tell his story on the air: When he was eight years ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,704 member
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  • Summer Catch (2001)
    Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr.,  Jessica Biel,  Matthew Lillard
    Director: Michael Tollin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) pitches a mean fastball, which is why he's been chosen for the elite Cape Cod Baseball League. A college dropout, he dates a promiscuous local girl and works long hours for his hard-drinking father's landscaping business, tending the lawns of the rich "summer people...read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,077 member
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  • Corky Romano on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Christopher Penn,  Peter Berg,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Rob Pritts
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big screen, including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve Martin. Recently that tradition has continued ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 343 members
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  • Dice (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Martin Cummings,  Gina McKee
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dice tells the story of charismatic psychology teacher, Glenn Taylor (Aidan Gillen - The Vice, Queer as Folk), who manipulates people by teaching them how to live by the throw of a dice. When the small community is shattered by the death of student Sally Quine, Detective Patrick Styvesant (Martin ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 24 members
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  • Circus on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Hannah,  Eddie Izzard,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Rob Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Conman Leo Garfield and his glamorous wife Lily are the coolest couple in town. They dream of an escape from the drudgery of everyday crime - they want a one-way boat trip to Cuba. Together, they mastermind the most audacious scam. Drawn into their web is an assortment of loud and tasteless ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 649 members
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  • Chaos Factor on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Kelly Rutherford,  Antonio Sabato Jr.
    Director: Terry Cunningham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While clearing land mines in Cambodia, Army intelligence agent Jack Poynt makes a gruesome discovery. Not only does he inadvertently uncover a virtual killing field of toxically poisoned bodies - the remnants of a top secret CIA installation from the Vietnam era - he also uncovers an incriminating ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 33% from 21 members
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  • Red Team on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Muldoon,  C. Thomas Howell,  Tim Thomerson
    Director: Jeremy Haft
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While investigating the mysterious deaths of two notorious mass murderers, FBI agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) discovers that many other serial killer suspects have recently vanished without trace. Chandler soon realises there's a killer slaughtering the serial killers....
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 25 members
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  • The Crow - Salvation on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Eric Mabius,  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
    Director: Bharat Nalluri
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) is back from the dead after receiving the electric chair for murdering his girlfriend, Lauren Randall (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). In the guise of the Crow, Alex has returned in order to take revenge on the real murderer and to set the justice system straight. Lauren's little ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 3,512 members
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  • Dangerous Beauty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Catherine McCormack,  Rufus Sewell,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Marshall Herskovitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The sensuous true story of the woman who defied convention in 16th-century Venice. Catherine McCormack plays Veronica Franco who, under the knowing tutelage of her mother, becomes a courtesan to the rich and powerful. She'll pay a price. Veronica may have to turn away forever from the nobleman she ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,301 member
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  • First Do No Harm on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Meryl Streep,  Seth Adkins
    Director: Jim Abrahams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this alternately heartbreaking and uplifting drama inspired by actual events, a small town Midwest family discovers that their youngest son suffers from epilepsy. Left without hope after their insurance runs out, the mother presses on, studies everything she can find about the illness, and, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 434 members
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  • Chain Reaction on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Morgan Freeman,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After his alternate-fuel research lab blows up, a brilliant young scientist (Keanu Reeves) is wrongly pegged as the saboteur in this action-thriller from the director of THE FUGITIVE. Teaming up with a beautiful physicist, the scruffy techie struggles to evade federal agents and uncover the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,096 members
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  • Chain Reaction - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Morgan Freeman,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After his alternate-fuel research lab blows up, a brilliant young scientist (Keanu Reeves) is wrongly pegged as the saboteur in this action-thriller from the director of THE FUGITIVE. Teaming up with a beautiful physicist, the scruffy techie struggles to evade federal agents and uncover the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,378 member
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  • Tremors 2 - Aftershocks on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Christopher Gartin,  Helen Shaver
    Director: S.S. Wilson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The foul-smelling "Graboids" from the original comedy-science-fiction-thriller return to snack on more people in this long-awaited sequel. The original worm hunter is called out of retirement to save Mexican oil fields from the pesky subterranean critters, but they prove to be a bit tougher this ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,911 members
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  • Short Cuts on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Tim Robbins,  Madeline Stowe
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,626 members
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  • Luck, Trust and Ketchup - The Making of ... on DVD (1993)
    Director: Mike Kaplan,  John Dorr
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This documentary takes the viewer behind the scenes of the making of the Robert Altman film SHORT CUTS. Based on a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, the movie chronicles the triumphs and failures of ordinary people. The documentary presents interviews with the cast, the director, and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 32 members
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  • The Player on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Whoopi Goldberg
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,855 members
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  • Miami Blues on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Alec Baldwin,  Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Director: George Armitage
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Junior (Alec Baldwin), an ex-con psychopath who sets twisted goals and achieves them at any cost, meets his match in Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), a weather-beaten Miami detective who attempts to avenge Junior's antics when the lifelong criminal steals the detective's badge, gun, and even his false ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 466 members
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  • Catchfire on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Dennis Hopper,  Dean Stockwell
    Director: Alan Smithee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ann Benton (Jodie Foster) is a self-possessed artist who stumbles across a mob hit in progress. She manages to escape and report the crime to the police but recognises Mafia soldier John Luponi (Dean Stockwell) at the station and takes off, becoming a fugitive. Meanwhile, mob boss Lino Avoca (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 397 members
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  • Tremors - HD (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Fred Ward,  Rhonda Le Beck
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The race to higher ground is on when two handymen and a local seismology student discover that their little town of Perfection, Nevada is infested with stinky subterranean man-eating worms. A very well-done comedy-horror film that salutes a host of horror films from bygone years.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 324 members
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  • Tremors on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Fred Ward,  Rhonda Le Beck
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunnelling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humour that it made everything old seem new again. It's also got a cast full of enjoyable actors ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,233 members
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  • Tremors - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Fred Ward,  Rhonda Le Beck
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The race to higher ground is on when two handymen and a local seismology student discover that their little town of Perfection, Nevada is infested with stinky subterranean man-eating worms. A very well-done comedy-horror film that salutes a host of horror films from bygone years.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 188 members
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  • Big Business on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  Lily Tomlin,  Edward Herrmann
    Director: Jim Abrahams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two sets of female twins are mixed up at birth. One set becomes the chief executives of a Manhattan conglomerate, while the other set succeeds at becoming poor country bumpkins. They all accidentally meet up at New York's Plaza Hotel, and from then on it's chaos all the way...
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,971 member
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  • The Prince Of Pennsylvania (1988)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Keanu Reeves,  Bonnie Bedelia
    Director: Ron Nyswaner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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  • Off Limits on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Willem Dafoe,  Gregory Hines,  Fred Ward
    Director: Christopher Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Buck McGriff and Albaby Perkins are two tough, hard nosed cops looking for the killer of six Vietnamese prostitutes whose babies were fathered by American soldiers. Aided by Sister Nicole, they gather evidence which finally implicates a high-ranking American officer....
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 45 members
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  • Uncommon Valour on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Fred Ward,  Randall Cobb
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With the financial backing of a wealthy Texan, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) prepares to carry out a dangerous mission to find his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. Five of his son's Marine buddies accompany him. The film also stars Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 551 members
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  • The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Scott Glenn,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,131 members
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  • Southern Comfort on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Keith Carradine,  Powers Boothe,  Fred Ward
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,992 members
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  • The Last Ride
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Will Patton,  Chris Carmack
    Director: Guy Norman Bee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A bank robber who loses his wife in a heist that goes wrong, surrenders and faces a long stretch in jail. Years later he's out looking for revenge. His son's a cop, but his grandson's on hand to help him nail the guy who set him up.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 324 members
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Fred Ward facts

5 most recent films

30 Minutes Or Less - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
30 Minutes or Less - 3.0 stars
Armored - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Armored - 3.0 stars
Farewell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tremors - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Tremors - HD - 3.5 stars
Escape From Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
The Right Stuff - 3.5 stars
Tremors - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Equinox - 3 stars
Cinema Collection - Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 - 1.5 stars
Chaos Factor - 2.0 stars
Red Team - 2.0 stars
The Crow - Salvation - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tim Robbins - 5 times - show films
Jennifer Jason Leigh - 4 times - show films
Kirsten Dunst - 4 times - show films
Julianne Moore - 4 times - show films
Michael Gross - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Altman - 7 times - show films
Philip Kaufman - 5 times - show films
James Foley - 4 times - show films
Ted Demme - 4 times - show films
Ron Underwood - 3 times - show films