Known for Acting
Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Creature (1984), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Milk and Honey (1988).
Born
June 21, 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Filmography
44 films, 38 shows


In the Forest
2022 · 1h 23m · US
Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets stuck, Helen decides to seek help but discovers a disturbing secret on the man’s property. She must then fight to protect her family and make it out of the forest alive before being hunted down.


Finding Titan: The Making of Creature
2021
An extended making-of documentary about the making of "Creature 1985" featuring special effects artist Doug Beswick alongside actors Stan Ivar, Lyman Ward, Diane Salinger and Marie Laurin


2:13
2009 · 1h 36m · US
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.


Rumor Has It...
2005 · 1h 37m · DE
Sarah Huttinger learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.


Quiet Kill
2004 · 1h 22m · US
An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger man, Steve Sterns (Nicholas Celozzi) who is introduced to Amy by her good friend, Sheila. The love affair is very brief, as she realizes that Steve has a dark, sinister and obsessive side to his personality, or is it personalities? Amy tries to break off the relationship, only to find that her adulterous lover has become her stalker. She also fears that Steve is responsible for the numerous brutal murders of local prostitutes.


Not Another Teen Movie
2001 · 1h 29m · US
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.


Independence Day
1996 · 2h 25m · US
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.


The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · 2h 58m · US
A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife and dog, and a U.S. Marshall. The incident caused major public outcry against the FBI and U.S. Marshals.


A Stranger to Love
1996 · 1h 36m · US
In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.


Serial Killer
1995 · 1h 34m · US
As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent serial killer. Before getting caught, Morrano attacks her leaving serious psychological wounds. Two years later, Morrano escapes and Selby, now working on a desk job, must face her personal traumas again.


The Wrong Woman
1995 · 1h 30m · CA
A temporary secretary is wrongly accused of killing her boss.


No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994 · 1h 32m · US
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.


The Force
1994 · 1h 34m · US
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young officer to seek revenge for his murder. However, when the spirit takes over, the officer is unaware of what is going on and most think he is in need of a psychiatrist, including the wife of the fallen cop.


The Beverly Hillbillies
1993 · 1h 33m · US
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.


Mikey
1992 · 1h 30m · US
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died of mysterious "accidents" that weren't really accidents at all. Mikey is a cold blooded killer, and it doesn't take long for him to aim his sights on his new adoptive family and anyone else who stands in his way.


Best Shots
1992 · 1h 18m
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets The Secret of My Success, as two crazy cousins try to outwit their boss and the mob, and take their best shot at becoming rich and famous, in Doug Lodato’s wacky Best Shots! Electronic laser guns, banana statues, scavenger hunts, flying beer and, of course, chicken pot pie with Cheeze Whiz are all part of this wild adventure, where no work and all play is the motto of the day! Join the denziens of Generation X for an all-out crazy adventure as Tom and Trip, two cousins with nothing in common but trouble, take their best shot at making a buck in the real world. When Tom’s banana kingpin uncle freezes his trust fund, he is forced to battle a corrupt boss and the mob just to get a paycheck. Meanwhile, Trip must devise a plan to win back his wayward girlfriend. But for Tom, whose cooking advice has always been “Heat, add Cheeze Whiz and eat,” it’s just another day.


Sleepwalkers
1992 · 1h 29m · US
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.


The Taking of Beverly Hills
1991 · 1h 36m · US
A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to plunder the city of all its valuables. Finding himself siding with a corrupt cop who was once apart of the plan until he discovered the city's mayor had just been blown away, by one of the chief crooks in charge. Now both on the run with no help in sight...both must do whatever they can to stop these murderous looters.


Sweet Poison
1991 · 1h 40m · US
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes the man's sexy wife is falling for him.


Guilty as Charged
1991 · 1h 35m · US
A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his reverend friend. A politician with a shady past becomes its latest "guest". But is he guilty?


Dick Francis: In the Frame
1989 · 1h 36m · CA
After two friends have their houses looted of expensive paintings and vintage wine collections, Cleveland finds those responsible when he travels to Germany.


Just Tipsy, Honey
1989 · 1h · US
Teenage girl is in total denial about her mother's drinking problem.


Riding the Edge
1989 · 1h 50m · US
Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle.


Milk and Honey
1988 · 1h 29m · CA
Jo, a Jamaican native, moves to Canada to help support her family. But she quickly learns that earning money and respect will be more difficult than she ever imagined.


Perfect Victims
1988 · 1h 30m · US
A psycho who has contracted AIDS blames women for his disease, and begins to stalk and kill beautiful girls.


She's Having a Baby
1988 · 1h 46m · US
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.


Stranger on My Land
1988 · 1h 34m · US
A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropriate his ranch for the construction of an air base.


Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
1987 · 23m · US
An older widower accidentally stumbles into a lively, eccentric male dance class in a desolate mall, finding a new lease on life.


Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · 1h 32m · US
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.


Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · 1h 43m · US
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.


A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 · 1h 27m · UK
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.


The Emperor's New Clothes
1985 · 49m · US
Two con men take advantage of an emperor's vanity.


Creature
1985 · 1h 37m · US
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.


Obsessed with a Married Woman
1985 · 1h 44m · US
A man falls in love with a married co-worker and wants her to divorce her husband, but she refuses because she has a ten-year-old son.


Protocol
1984 · 1h 36m · US
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.


Young Lust: A Soap Opera
1984 · 1h 30m · US
The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.


Moscow on the Hudson
1984 · 1h 55m · US
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.


Love Letters
1983 · 1h 28m · US
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a married man. Burning attraction brings them together, but the reality does not come close to the passion expressed in the letters.


Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 · 1h 59m · US
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.


The Phoenix
1981 · 1h 30m · US
A godlike being, discovered in an ancient sarcophagus in the plains of South America, is brought back to life and must learn to cope with today's society while using his extraordinary powers to combat evil. This variation on the "Superman" theme served as the pilot to the short-lived series (1981-82).


The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
1980 · 1h 28m · US
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.


The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978 · 1h 44m · US
An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.


Having Babies
1976 · 1h 42m · US
The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.


Coffy
1973 · 1h 30m · US
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.