RIP Fred Ward

[matt_garth]

 

[garrow]

So many great performances. My favorite was Miami Blues. RIP.

 

[Driftwood]

****in A, Bubba.

 

[justgladtobehere]

So many great performances. My favorite was Miami Blues. RIP.

Seconded. What a great movie.

 

[The Big Ragu]

****in A, Bubba.

An astronaut named Gus? What's your middle name?

Ivan.

 

[garrow]

Another classic Fred Ward movie filled with other awesome actors of his generation-Southern Comfort.

 

[DanOregon]

Fred Ward might have been the king of movies not well promoted for the theaters that absolutely killed it at the video store. Remo, Miami, Blues, Tremors - even the Right Stuff didn't make back its budget in the theaters. But they are all great movies that stand up.

 

[garrow]

Also a standout in the Player.

 

[TowelWaver]

Absolutely loved his and Kevin Bacon's work as Val and Earl in Tremors. May have to watch it this weekend in tribute.

 

[User 149557]

A “That Guy” Hall of Famer.

 

[OTD]

An astronaut named Gus? What's your middle name?

Ivan.

Well . . . Gus isn't so bad . . . OK, you can be Gus.

One of my favorite movie lines ever.

 

[Liut]

Keep the Ward/Grissom lines coming. Enjoying them. What was the one at Pancho's where Gus Grissom asks what astronaut means? Star Voyager?

I respected Ward's work, even in The Right Stuff, but as John Dean said about the film version of All the President's Men: good drama, terrible history. Especially the way Grissom was portrayed.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

THE HATCH JUST BLEW!

RIP, good sir and thank you. Might have to watch "The Right Stuff."

(Was at a base with a Grissom Elementary School. But no, I had to go to MacArthur. ... at least we weren't too far from Corregidor ... )