Fred Ward was born on 30-12-1942 in San Diego in the state of California, United States. He is an American Film Actor, Film Producer, Model, Television Actor & Theatre Actor who is best known for his work in Hollywood films. He then returned to the United States and got his first decent role alongside Clint Eastwood in the nail-biting prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Ward's looks often saw him cast as law enforcement or military characters, and he put in noteworthy performances in Southern Comfort (1981), Uncommon Valor (1983), as astronaut Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff (1983), and scored the lead in the interesting spy / martial arts movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), which unfortunately was not as successful as had been the mega-selling series of Remo Williams books.