Fred Ward RIP

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  1. boggs

    boggs Multichannel Machiavellian

  2. Timeline Man

    Timeline Man Time Traveler from Naples

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    FRED WARD was a legend to me. He was one of my top 10 actors. I'm devastated.

    REMO WILLIAMS is an adventure masterpiece, and a big cult classic. In Italy, it was a huge success.

    TIMERIDER is one of the most wonderful time travel movies in history.

    I loved each role that he played in his astonishing career & life.

    You're my hero, Fred. Rest in peace.
     
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  3. daglesj

    daglesj Forum Resident

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    Loved him in loads of films, but Tremors is supreme!!!!! :D

    I will miss him! Great actor.

    Loved his detective role in the Keanu Reeves movie (cant remember its name, energy from water) where he knows the thing was a setup from the first minute. Really nice touch.
     
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  4. SSoundLtd

    SSoundLtd Forum Resident

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    "I DID NOT do anything wrong!! The hatch just blew, it was a glitch, a technical malfunction! Why in hell won't anybody believe me?!"

    A small but powerful scene in The Right Stuff by a great actor. I'll miss him...
     
  5. neo123

    neo123 Senior Member

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    The first Tremors movie was definitely my favorite of his, but I liked him in just about everything he was in that I saw.

    Other favorites were Escape From Alcatraz and The Right Stuff.
     
  6. majorlance

    majorlance Forum Resident

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    An actor I was always glad to see, who gave us some memorable work in The Right Stuff and Henry & June, among others.
    RIP, Mr. Ward. :tiphat:
     
  7. AndrewK

    AndrewK Forum Resident

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    sad, I recently revisited 80's comedy Big Business with him in one of the roles. RIP
     
  8. TheNightfly1982

    TheNightfly1982 Forum Resident

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    Fred Ward helped elevate every single film he was in. Highly underrated and unpredictable, you never knew where he was going to pop up. He was a man’s man who never went “Hollywood.”

    “****in’ A, Bubba!”

    RIP
     
  9. bloodisthin

    bloodisthin And after all, we're only ordinary men

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    One of the coolest tough-guy man's-man actors, a diminishing breed.

    Stacks of great performances of course (Southern Comfort is one of my all-time favourites)... but I'll be the one to mention his role as Rocco Dillon in The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. I love that stupid movie.

    Thanks for all you gave Fred.

     
  10. nosticker

    nosticker Forum Guy

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    He was awesome as the dad in Secret Admirer(I think there's a still from the movie on the first page).



    Dan
     
  11. Rocker

    Rocker Senior Member

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    Earl from Tremors will always be the role i associate him with the most... he was maybe my favourite character in that film. He was also very funny in Naked Gun 33 1/3.

    RIP :(
     
  12. apesfan

    apesfan "Going Ape"

    First played attention to him in "Uncommon Valor" then after became a big admirer of his. Sorry to hear this, John..:eek:
     
  13. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    What? No Jackie?
     
  14. jason88cubs

    jason88cubs Forum Resident

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  15. johnod

    johnod Forum Resident

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    That's too bad, I always liked him.
     
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  16. bloodisthin

    bloodisthin And after all, we're only ordinary men

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    Fred in the video for Filter's song "The Best Things." He's in it because the video was a tie-in to The Crow: Salvation, which he was in - there's also blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances from a couple of other Salvation actors who went onto much bigger & better things, Kirsten Dunst and Walton Goggins..

     
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  17. Stereosound

    Stereosound Forum Resident

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  18. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    No Jackie, no JFK, no parade....just a crappy motel room and the worst beach in the world.
     
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  19. Lightworker

    Lightworker Forum Resident

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  20. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    A wonderful, warm actor. I first saw him in SOUTHERN COMFORT, loved him in REMO WILLIAMS and THE RIGHT STUFF.
     
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  21. Jim N.

    Jim N. Just another day in what was once Paradise...

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    Talk about clueless, one webbie writing about Fred Ward's death first described him as "The "Joe Dirt" actor". Good grief! Yeah, he was in both "Joe Dirt" and "Corky Romano" in 2001 but in 1990 he did "Henry and June", "Tremors" and "Miami Blues". Later he was great in a small part in the (to me) overlooked "Thunderheart".

    "Remo Williams" was a interesting film despite the painful to watch yellowface part played by Joel Grey. That film and "Henry and June" flopping pretty much relegated Ward to support roles.

    RIP one of the great character actors. He always seemed taller than he actually was ;-).
     
  22. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    Very sad news. He was great in everything. RIP.
     
  23. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Michigan
  24. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    "Mrs. Squirming hatch-blower!"
     
  25. Crimson Witch

    Crimson Witch Roll across the floor thru the hole & out the door

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    Lower Michigan
    Rest in Peace
     

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