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David S. Ward

Highest Rated: 93% The Sting (1973)

Lowest Rated: 5% Major League II (1994)

Birthday: Oct 25, 1945

Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

David S. Ward specialized in writing and directing feature films which often used a familiar backdrop to tell an unfamiliar tale. He got his big break when he sold "Steelyard Blues/The Final Crash," a film about a D.A. embarrassed by his ex-con brother and his ex-hooker girlfriend, to Michael and Julia Phillips in 1971. Released in 1973, the film starred Howard Hesseman as the lawyer, Donald Sutherland as his brother and Jane Fonda as the girl. Most critics found it entertaining, but it was not as popular as the other Ward-Phillips 1973 collaboration, "The Sting." Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, the movie was about the gambling con job deluxe. Meticulously directed by George Roy Hill, featuring a wonderful cast (besides Newman and Redford, there was Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Eileen Brennan and Ray Walston) and fueled partly by Marvin Hamlisch's score adapted from Scott Joplin rags, "The Sting" was a popular and critical hit. It went on to win seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and one for Ward's original screenplay.

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Highest rated movies

93% 95% The Sting
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83% 84% Major League
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80% 83% I'll Find You Watchlist
75% 72% Cannery Row
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75% 75% Sleepless in Seattle Watchlist
43% 80% The Program
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37% 53% Sahara Watchlist
34% 66% Flyboys
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23% 28% King Ralph
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22% 25% Major League: Back to the Minors
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Filmography

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Credit
80% 83% I'll Find You Screenwriter - 2019
No Score Yet 20% Bloodwork Producer - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucifer Writer - 2007
34% 66% Flyboys Screenwriter $13.1M 2006
37% 53% Sahara Screenwriter $68.6M 2005
22% 25% Major League: Back to the Minors Writer $3.6M 1998
11% 62% Down Periscope Director $23.3M 1996
5% 44% Major League II Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$29.4M 1994
43% 80% The Program Director $22.8M 1993
75% 75% Sleepless in Seattle Screenwriter $125.6M 1993
23% 28% King Ralph Director,
Screenwriter
$31.3M 1991
83% 84% Major League Director,
Screenwriter
$49.8M 1989
10% 29% The Sting II Screenwriter - 1983
75% 72% Cannery Row Director - 1982
93% 95% The Sting Writer - 1973