He was told by Tokovsky that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star; Ford felt his job was to act like a bellboy. His speaking roles continued next with "Luv" (1967), though he was still uncredited. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film "A Time for Killing", starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton and Inger Stevens, but the "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name. It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957.
1964–1976
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
"A Time for Killing" "Star Wars", "The Fugitive", "Air Force One", and many more. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Star Wars".
when was kingdom of the crystal skull filmed
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2008
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what is its genre?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what is the significance of the crystal skull in the film?
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It was believed that it belonged to an alien life form and holds great psychic power, and finding more skulls will grant the Soviet Union the ability to rule the world through the use of telepathy.
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who played the role of jones?
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Harrison Ford.
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how is he related to aviation?
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He is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
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was he into archaeological expeditions as well?
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Yes, he serves as a General Trustee on the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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what opinions does he hold on politics?
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He holds the opinion of being a Democrat.
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any other famous movie he acted?
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He was told by Tokovsky that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star; Ford felt his job was to act like a bellboy. His speaking roles continued next with "Luv" (1967), though he was still uncredited. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film "A Time for Killing", starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton and Inger Stevens, but the "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name. It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957.
Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
Ford later said that he was unaware of the existence of the earlier actor until he came upon a star with his own name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ford soon dropped the "J" and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including "Gunsmoke", "Ironside", "The Virginian", "The F.B.I.", "Love, American Style" and "Kung Fu". He appeared in the western "Journey to Shiloh" (1968) and had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film "Zabriskie Point" as an arrested student protester. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, "Model Shop" (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor.
Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
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Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
For his performance in "The Fugitive", which also co-starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career, including from Roger Ebert who concluded that, "Ford is once again the great modern movie everyman. As an actor, nothing he does seems merely for show, and in the face of this melodramatic material he deliberately plays down, lays low, gets on with business instead of trying to exploit the drama in meaningless acting flourishes." He also played more straight dramatic roles in "Presumed Innocent" (1990) and "Regarding Henry" (1991) as well as another romantic lead in "Sabrina" (1995), a remake of a classic 1954 film with the same name.
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
He has also famously portrayed two literary characters brought to the silver screen: the anti-hero detective Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982) and its sequel 35 years later "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) and CIA analyst Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994). Ford also played a small role in the acclaimed war film "Apocalypse Now" in 1979 before becoming a very high-profile movie star in leading roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s with such films as the romantic dramatic thriller "Witness" with Kelly McGillis for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, the romantic comedy-drama "Working Girl" with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, the recovery drama "Regarding Henry" with Annette Bening, the man-on-the-run action-thriller "The Fugitive" with Tommy Lee Jones, and the romantic comedy-drama remake "Sabrina" with Julia Ormond, earning Golden Globe nominations for the latter two films.
Harrison Ford filmography | Introduction
He is also widely known for his portrayal of Indiana Jones in the titular film franchise, beginning with the action-adventure film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). His career spans six decades and includes collaborations with some of the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of all time such as George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, and Mike Nichols. Outside of his franchise roles, Ford has portrayed heroic characters in films such as the thrillers "Witness" (1985), "The Fugitive" (1993), and "Air Force One" (1997), as well as the historical sports drama "42" (2013), in which he played baseball manager Branch Rickey.
Harrison Ford | Introduction
Harrison Ford is an American actor who has had a long and varied career in the entertainment industry across six different decades. Ford made his film debut in 1966 and spent most of the first ten years of his career in small supporting roles in both films and television before rising to stardom for his portrayal of the iconic and heroic character Han Solo in the epic space opera films "Star Wars" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), "Return of the Jedi" (1983), and then again 32 years later in "" (2015) and "" (2019). In the early 1980s, his career soared to even bigger heights when he claimed the starring role of another heroic character Indiana Jones in the adventure films "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "The Temple of Doom" (1984), "The Last Crusade" (1989) and then again 19 years later in "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008).
Harrison Ford filmography | Introduction
Ford wanted Lucas to kill off Han Solo at the end of "Return of the Jedi", saying, "That would have given the whole film a bottom," but Lucas refused. Following "Star Wars", Ford began to receive bigger roles in films throughout the late 1970s, including "Heroes" (1977), "Force 10 from Navarone" (1978) and "Hanover Street" (1979). Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-comedy western "The Frisco Kid" (1979), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold. Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), an action-adventure collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg that gave Ford his second franchise role as the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones.
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Ford began his acting career on the stage. He made his Broadway debut in 1904 in Richard Harding Davis's "Ranson's Folly". He went on to appear in productions of William C. deMille's "Strongheart"; "Glorious Betsy" by Rida Johnson Young (the production lasted only 24 performances but the play was later adapted for an Oscar-nominated film of the same name); Bayard Veiller's "The Fight" (which quickly closed); Edgar Wallace's "The Switchboard"; Edward Locke's "The Bubble"; and Edgar Selwyn's "Rolling Stones". Ford turned to film beginning in 1915 and moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies, Marguerite De La Motte and Clara Bow.
Harrison Ford (silent film actor) | Career
Harrison Edward Ford (March 16, 1884 – December 2, 1957) was an American stage and film actor. He was a leading Broadway theater performer and a star of the silent film era.
Harrison Ford (silent film actor) | Introduction
Ford's film career ended with the advent of talkies. His final film, and only talkie, "Love in High Gear", was released in 1932. He returned to acting in the theatre, and also directed productions at the Little Theater of the Verdugos in Glendale, California. During World War II, he toured with the United Service Organizations (USO).
Harrison Ford (silent film actor) | Career
In 1997, Ford starred as fictional U.S. President James Marshall opposite Gary Oldman in the political action-thriller "Air Force One" and then went on to play Russian submarine Captain Alexei Vostrikov opposite Liam Neeson in the Cold War-era thriller "" in 2002, a film based on true events in which he also served as executive producer. He continued to diversify his choice of roles throughout the 2000s and 2010s, transitioning from leading man to character actor with such parts as cantankerous newsman Mike Pomeroy in the romantic comedy "Morning Glory" with Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton, Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde in the science fiction/western hybrid "Cowboys & Aliens" with Daniel Craig, real-life Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey in the historical sports drama "42" with Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, the no-nonsense Colonel Hyrum Graff in the science fiction adaptation of Orson Scott Card's novel "Ender's Game" with Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis, and the wounded aging lover William Jones in the romantic drama "The Age of Adaline" with Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn.
Harrison Ford filmography | Introduction
Before "Cowboys & Aliens", Ford had previously acted in the Western films "A Time for Killing" (1967), "Journey to Shiloh" (1969) and "The Frisco Kid" (1979). While Ford is well known for playing Indiana Jones, the filmmakers wanted to avoid giving him a cowboy hat that would remind audiences too much of Jones. Writer Alex Kurtzman said, "We needed to make sure that—no pun intended—we tipped a hat to iconography of Harrison Ford and also presented the audience with a very different version." Olivia Wilde was cast in one of the lead roles, and Favreau called Wilde's character the key to the film.
Cowboys &amp; Aliens | Development and casting
He also played minor roles in "RoboCop" (1987) and "Boys Don't Cry" (1999). He also appeared as himself, partly through archive footage, in four documentary films discussing the Kennedy assassination: "Rush to Judgment" (1967), "11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried" (1989), "Stalking the President: A History of American Assassins" (1992), and "Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film" (1998).
Jerry Haynes | Other television and film work
In a 1981 interview Ford said his favorite of his own films were "The Blackboard Jungle", "Gilda", "Cowboy", "3:10 to Yuma", "The Sheepman" and "The Gazebo". "They may not have been the best pictures I did, but they're the ones I remember most fondly because of the people involved," he said. "People like George Marshall, who directed six pictures with me, and Debbie Reynolds."
Glenn Ford | Legacy
It was followed by the darker, less commercial "The Mosquito Coast" (1986), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family. These dramatic parts provided Harrison Ford with important opportunities to break the typecasting of his career-making roles in the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" series. Both films showed off his ability to play more subtle and substantial characters and he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in "Witness", the only Academy Awards recognition in his career.
Peter Weir | American films
Like "Star Wars", the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Spielberg was interested in casting Ford from the beginning, but Lucas was not, having already worked with the actor in "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars". Lucas eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), which co-starred Spielberg's future-wife Kate Capshaw, and the sequel "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr.
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
In the 1990s, Ford became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994), both co-starring Anne Archer and James Earl Jones. Ford took over the role from Alec Baldwin who had previously played the character in "The Hunt for Red October" (1990). This led to a long-lasting resentment from Baldwin who claimed to have wanted to reprise the role but Ford had negotiated with Paramount behind his back. Ford also played leading roles in other action-based thrillers throughout the decade such as the critically acclaimed "The Fugitive "(1993), "The Devil's Own" (1997), and "Air Force One" (1997).
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. Ford later commented that the experience had been nevertheless a positive one because Demy was the first to show such faith in him. Not happy with the roles being offered to him, Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and two young sons. Casting director and fledgling producer Fred Roos championed the young Ford and secured him an audition with George Lucas for the role of Bob Falfa, which Ford went on to play in "American Graffiti" (1973). Ford's relationship with Lucas would profoundly affect his career later on. After director Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Godfather" was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, "The Conversation" (1974) and "Apocalypse Now" (1979); in the latter film, Ford played an army officer named "G.
Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller "Syriana", later commenting that "I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake." The role eventually went to George Clooney, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work. Prior to that, Ford had passed on a role in another Stephen Gaghan-written film, that of Robert Wakefield in "Traffic", which eventually went to Michael Douglas. In 2008, Ford enjoyed success with the release of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", the first Indiana Jones film in nineteen years and another collaboration with Lucas and Spielberg.
Harrison Ford | 1998–2014
He has played the Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan in the spy thriller films "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994). In addition to his heroic roles, he played morally ambiguous and darker characters in films such as the coming-of-age comedy drama "American Graffiti" (1973), the conspiracy thriller "The Conversation" (1974), the survival drama "The Mosquito Coast" (1986), the legal drama "Presumed Innocent" (1990), and the supernatural suspense thriller "What Lies Beneath" (2000). He played Rick Deckard in the dystopian science fiction films "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) and has appeared in several romantic comedies and dramas, including "Heroes" (1977), "Working Girl" (1988), "Sabrina" (1995), "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998), "Random Hearts" (1999), "Hollywood Homicide" (2003), "Morning Glory" (2010), and "The Age of Adaline" (2015).
Harrison Ford | Introduction
Ford's first financial flop since he reached star status was the epic Western "Cimarron" (1960) (the movie was relatively popular but failed to recoup its cost). He did some comedies: "Cry for Happy" (1961) with Marshall and "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961), with Frank Capra, neither of which was as well received as his fifties comedies. Ford was cast in the lead of "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1961), a notorious box office fiasco. Ford's box office standing recovered with the thriller "Experiment in Terror" (1962) and the comedy "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1963). Less popular were the comedies "Love Is a Ball" (1963) and "Advance to the Rear" (1964), the latter directed by Marshall.
Glenn Ford | Decline as Star
In 1964, after a season of summer stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin, Ford traveled to Los Angeles to apply for a job in radio voice-overs. He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a $150-per-week contract with Columbia Pictures' new talent program, playing bit roles in films. His first known role was an uncredited one as a bellhop in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" (1966). There is little record of his non-speaking (or "extra") roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature.
Harrison Ford | 1964–1976
Ford's previous work in "American Graffiti" eventually landed him his first starring film role when he was hired by Lucas to read lines for actors auditioning for roles in Lucas' upcoming epic space-opera film "Star Wars" (1977). Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's performance during these line reads and cast him as Han Solo. "Star Wars" became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time, and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He returned to star in the similarly successful "Star Wars" sequels "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983), as well as the "Star Wars Holiday Special" (1978).
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor, pilot, and environmental activist. , the U.S. domestic box office grosses of his films total over $5.1billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $9.3billion, placing him at No. 4 on the list of highest-grossing domestic box office stars of all time. In addition to his box office success, he is also an Academy Award nominee, a four-time Golden Globe nominee, a two-time Saturn Award winner, and the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Following the initial part of his career in bit parts and supporting roles, Ford gained worldwide fame for his starring role as Han Solo in the epic space opera film "Star Wars" (1977), reprising the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years.
Harrison Ford | Introduction
Ford went on to have an extensive career over 30 years, appearing in more than 150 films, with lead roles in the 1930s and '40s in Hollywood B movies such as "The Rogues' Tavern" (1936), "Murder by Invitation" (1941), and "Roar of the Press" (1941), and supporting roles in larger feature films such as "The Lost Patrol" (1934), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1942), "Spellbound" (1945), and "Dead Reckoning" (1947). In 1937, he returned to the Broadway stage to play the role of George in the original production of "Of Mice and Men".
Wallace Ford | Acting career
During the June 1983 filming of "Temple of Doom" in London, Ford herniated a disc in his back. The 40-year-old actor was forced to fly back to Los Angeles for surgery and returned six weeks later. Following his leading-man success as Indiana Jones, he played Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's dystopian science-fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982). Compared to his experiences on the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, Ford had a difficult time with the production. He recalled to Vanity Fair, “It was a long slog. I didn’t really find it that physically difficult—I thought it was mentally difficult.” Ford and Scott also had differing views on the nature of his character, Deckard, that persist decades later.
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
Early in life, Ford's politics were conventionally progressive; his favorite presidents were Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy and Republican Abraham Lincoln. But despite these leanings, many thought he was a Republican because of his long association with actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Ward Bond. Ford's attitude to McCarthyism in Hollywood is expressed by a story told by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A faction of the Directors Guild of America, led by Cecil B. DeMille, had tried to make it mandatory for every member to sign a loyalty oath. A whispering campaign was being conducted against Mankiewicz, then President of the Guild, alleging he had Communist sympathies.
John Ford | Politics
In the late 1990s, Ford started appearing in several critically derided and/or commercially disappointing films that failed to match his earlier successes, including "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998), "Random Hearts" (1999), "" (2002), "Hollywood Homicide" (2003), "Firewall" (2006) and "Extraordinary Measures" (2010). One exception was "What Lies Beneath" (2000) which grossed over $155million in the United States and $291million worldwide. Ford served as an executive producer on "K-19: The Widowmaker" and "Extraordinary Measures", both of which were based on true events. In the 2001 "Guinness Book of World Records", Ford was listed as the richest male actor in the world.
Harrison Ford | 1998–2014
In 2002, he was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award, another career achievement honor, from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the 59th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. On May 30, 2003, Ford received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006, he received the Jules Verne Award, given to an actor who has "encouraged the spirit of adventure and imagination" throughout their career. He was presented with the first-ever Hero Award at the 2007 Scream Awards for his many iconic roles, including Indiana Jones and Han Solo (both of which earned him two Saturn Awards for Best Actor in 1982 and 2016, respectively), and in 2008 he received the Spike TV's Guy's Choice Award for "Brass Balls".
Harrison Ford | Awards and filmography
His co-star in "Due Fratelli" was the Irish-American actor Donald O'Brien, another veteran of Italian B-films. Harrison and O'Brien played two estranged brothers rejoined after receiving an inheritance, Harrison a "lovable rogue", O'Brien a pious Mormon. Harrison wants to spend his money on building a bordello, and comic adventures in the spirit of the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer hit "My Name is Trinity" (1971) follow. Other notable early 70s films were "Churchill's Leopards" (1970), directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and also starring Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Klaus Kinski, in which Harrison got to play a double role; "Acquasanta Joe" (1971), directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Ty Hardin and Lincoln Tate, an otherwise mediocre western worth mentioning for having Harrison cast against type as a villain; and "Dig Your Grave, Friend...Sabata's Coming" (1971), directed by Juan Bosch, a western livened up by the presence of Spanish actor Fernando Sancho.
Richard Harrison (actor) | 1970s exploitation films
Throughout his career, Ford has received significant recognition for his work in the entertainment industry. In 1986, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 58th Academy Awards for his performance in "Witness", a role for which he also received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations in the same category. Three additional Golden Globe nominations went to Ford in 1987, 1994 and 1996 for his performances in "The Mosquito Coast", "The Fugitive" and "Sabrina". In 2000, he was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute for his body of work, presented to him by two of his closest collaborators and fellow industry giants, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Harrison Ford | Awards and filmography
The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Ford later said he would like to star in another sequel, "...if it didn't take another 20 years to digest." Other 2008 work included "Crossing Over", directed by Wayne Kramer. In the film, Ford plays an ICE/Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent, working alongside Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta. He also narrated a feature documentary film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Dalai Lama Renaissance". Ford filmed the medical drama "Extraordinary Measures" in 2009 in Portland, Oregon. Released January 22, 2010, the film also starred Brendan Fraser and Alan Ruck.
Harrison Ford | 1998–2014
Lincoln" (1939), directed by John Ford. His early career peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films. In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic "The Lady Eve". Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded westerns: "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943) and "My Darling Clementine" (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's western "Fort Apache" (1948).
Henry Fonda | Introduction
They also retain a base in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. He is known as one of Hollywood's most private actors, guarding much of his personal life. In her 2016 autobiography "The Princess Diarist", his co-star Carrie Fisher claimed that she and Ford had a three-month affair in 1976 during the filming of "Star Wars".
Harrison Ford | Personal life
Ford first worked with director George Marshall in "The Sheepman" (1958), a popular Western at MGM. They reteamed on the service comedy "Imitation General" (1958). Ford a war movie, "Torpedo Run" (1958). He and Marshall made two comedies with Debbie Reynolds, "It Started with a Kiss" (1959) and "The Gazebo" (1959). At the end of the fifties Ford was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
Glenn Ford | Comedy
He was in the drama "Fate Is the Hunter" (1964) and the romantic comedy "Dear Heart" (1964).
Glenn Ford | Decline as Star
Ford's versatility allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, almost always as the beleaguered, well-meaning, but nonplussed straight man, set upon by circumstances as in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956), in which he played an American soldier sent to Okinawa to convert the occupied island's natives to the American way of life, and is instead converted by them. Every movie Ford starred in around this time was a hit: "" (1957), a classic Western at Columbia; "Don't Go Near the Water" (1957), a service comedy at MGM; and "Cowboy" (1958) with Jack Lemmon at Columbia.
Glenn Ford | Comedy
Like his parents, Ford is a lifelong Democrat. On September 7, 1995, Ford testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the Dalai Lama and an independent Tibet. In 2007, he narrated the documentary "Dalai Lama Renaissance". In 2003, he publicly condemned the Iraq War and called for "regime change" in the United States. He also criticized Hollywood for making movies which were "more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships", and he called for more gun control in the United States.
Harrison Ford | Political views
In 1976 Crockett took his last acting role as President Gerald Ford (whom he strongly resembled) in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again".
Dick Crockett | Career
Ford married New York stage actress Beatrice Prentice (1884 – 1977) on March 29, 1909. On September 13, 1951, he was struck by a car driven by a teen girl while out walking. He never recovered from the severe injuries received and spent the rest of his life at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and died there on December 2, 1957, at the age of 73. He was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Harrison Ford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Musso & Frank Grill at 6665 Hollywood Blvd.
Harrison Ford (silent film actor) | Personal life
Harrison's film debut was in "The Great Game" (1930). His first starring role was in the romantic comedy "Storm in a Teacup" (1937), opposite Vivien Leigh. Other notable early films include "The Citadel" (1938), "Night Train to Munich" (1940), "Major Barbara" (1941)—filmed in London during The Blitz of 1940, a role for which he received critical acclaim, "Blithe Spirit" (1945), "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), and "The Foxes of Harrow" (1947). He is best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film version of "My Fair Lady", based on the 1956 Broadway production (which in turn was based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion"), for which Harrison won an Oscar for Best Actor.
Rex Harrison | Cinema appearances
As a child, Bush appeared in some Paramount films that starred Mary Pickford. While the Internet Movie Database has him appearing as a child actor in 1917's "Jack and the Beanstalk", the American Film Institute has his first film role as Bent Weymer in 1932's "Wild Horse Mesa", directed by Henry Hathaway, which was a featured part. During his career, Bush appeared in over 80 feature films. Although he appeared in many films in small, un-credited roles, he also appeared in featured roles in many notable films, including: as the adult Andrew Horn in "The Great Jasper" (1933); as Bill Radford in the 1933 drama, "One Man's Journey"; as Dick in the romantic comedy "Young and Beautiful" (1934); as Byron Coates/John Meseraux in the 1935 mystery, "A Shot in the Dark"; as Orin Tallant in the 1935 western, "The Arizonian"; as Arthur Pennyward in "The Lady in Scarlet" (1935); as Don Adams in the 1937 war film, "I Cover the War!"; as Johnny Eaton in the adventure film, "Outlaws of the Orient" (1937); as Henry Crusper in the 1939 comedy "Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President"; as Ken Morgan in "West of Cimarron", a Three Mesquiteers western (1940); as Joe Morgan in the Laurel and Hardy comedy, "A-Haunting We Will Go"; and as Hartman in another Laurel and Hardy film, "The Big Noise" (1944).
James Bush (actor) | Film
For many years, the Quigley Publishing Company's Poll of Film Exhibitors ranked Ford as one of the most popular stars in the US:
Glenn Ford | Box office ranking
"Two Rode Together" (Ford Productions-Columbia, 1961) co-starred James Stewart and Richard Widmark, with Shirley Jones and Stock Company regulars Andy Devine, Henry Brandon, Harry Carey Jr, Anna Lee, Woody Strode, Mae Marsh and Frank Baker, with an early screen appearance by Linda Cristal, who went on to star in the Western TV series "The High Chaparral". It was a fair commercial success, grossing $1.6m in its first year.
John Ford | Last years, 1960–1973
Harrison contributed pieces on his 1970s and 1980s films to two compilations:
Richard Harrison (actor) | Bibliography
On stage, his best known role was John Hancock in the musical "1776" and the 1972 film adaptation.
David Ford (actor) | Career
He next co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed gritty boxing film "Fat City", directed by John Huston. In 1973, he starred as Junior Jackson in "The Last American Hero", a film based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson. He was again nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot". In 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of "King Kong", opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a commercial success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple its $23 million budget, and also winning an Academy Award for special effects.
Jeff Bridges | Film
Brennan returned to villainy as Old Man Clanton in "My Darling Clementine" (1946), opposite Henry Fonda for director John Ford. Brennan followed this with parts in "Nobody Lives Forever" (1946) at Warners, and a girl-and-dog story at Republic, "Driftwood"(1947). He did another Americana film at Fox, "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" (1948), then was in one of the best films in his career, "Red River" (1948), playing John Wayne's sidekick for Howard Hawks.
Walter Brennan | Classic Westerns roles
His notable feature film credits include the award-winning Ron Howard film "Apollo 13" (1995), where he played a news reporter, and the Wolfgang Petersen film "Outbreak" (1995) as a doctor. He also appeared in two films starring football legend Jim Brown, "Black Gunn" (1972), as his brother, "The Slams" (1973), as his cell mate, and Roger Corman's "Private Duty Nurses" (1971), as activist Dr. Elton Sanders, which marked his feature film debut.
Herbert Jefferson Jr. | Films
His work led to a number of notable film roles, including two mid-1930s John Ford films, "The Informer" and "The Plough and the Stars" (1936), and the part of the police inspector in pursuit of IRA man James Mason in Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out" (1947). Other films in which he appeared include "The Mark of Cain" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948, again for Reed, and again as a police inspector), Alfred Hitchcock's "Under Capricorn" (1949), "The Bad Lord Byron" (1949), "Landfall" (1949), "Marry Me!" (1949), Disney's "Treasure Island" (1950), "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (1951), "The Long Dark Hall" (1951), "Mogambo" (1953; another John Ford film), "Niagara" (1953), "Never Take No for an Answer" (1953), "The Rising of the Moon" (1957), "Captain Lightfoot" (1957), "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959), and "Esther and the King" (1960).
Denis O'Dea | Introduction
Cohan appeared in 1930 in "The Song and Dance Man", a revival of his tribute to vaudeville and his father. In 1932, Cohan starred in a dual role as a cold, corrupt politician and his charming, idealistic campaign double in the Hollywood musical film "The Phantom President". The film co-starred Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante, with songs by Rodgers and Hart, and was released by Paramount Pictures. He appeared in some earlier silent films but he disliked Hollywood production methods and only made one other sound film, "Gambling" (1934), based on his own 1929 play and shot in New York City.
George M. Cohan | Later career
In the 1961 Walt Disney comedy "The Absent-Minded Professor", he is the college president Rufus Daggett and can be seen once again in that role in the film's 1963 sequel "Son of Flubber". In 1970, he was cast as Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox in the action war film "Tora! Tora! Tora!" His last screen role is in "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986) in which he plays Kathleen Turner's character's grandfather Barney Alvorg.
Leon Ames | Film
16 and 17 in box office grosses for 1975, respectively. In 1976 he co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the No. 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed "All the President's Men". In 1975, 1977 and 1978, Redford won the Golden Globe for Favourite World Film Star, a popularity-based award that is no longer awarded.
Robert Redford | Film
Harrison turned down Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" and recommended Clint Eastwood for the role. Harrison joked that was his greatest contribution to the cinema. The 1968 film "Joko - Invoca Dio... e muori" "Vengeance", directed by Antonio Margheriti, is another favorite among spaghetti western fans. Luciano Martino's 1965 movie "Secret Agent Fireball", Harrison's first Eurospy film, is also often cited as his best film in the genre, and one of his better earlier films. He again played the role of CIA Agent Fleming in a sequel "Killers Are Challenged" in 1966. The Italian actor Bruno Piergentili who made European features during this period was given the name "Dan Harrison", perhaps to evoke Richard's name.
Richard Harrison (actor) | 1960s European movies
For his part, Harrison is in top form, finding multiple levels to play in dialogue that could easily devolve into rants and providing the kind of solid performance that is crucial to anchoring a film of this type. Neither he nor Mankiewicz can overcome the limitations of the script to make "Escape" a classic, but they do make it fairly engrossing."
Escape (1948 film) | Critical response
Harrison's career dwindled slowly in the 1970s at the same rate as the spaghetti western died. He began appearing in low-budget movies shot all over the world: In Egypt ("You Can Do a Lot with 7 Women" (1971), with the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong starring in the title role of "Marco Polo" (1975) and playing the German commander von Waldersee in "The Boxer Rebellion" (1976). Harrison worked in Turkey ("The Godfather's Friend", 1972), directed by Farouk "Frank" Agrama, and as Sgt. Taylor in a Yugoslavian war film, the 1979 effort "Pakleni otok", directed by Vladimir Tadej. He made most of his better quality 70s films during the earlier half of the decade, like the comic spaghetti western "Due Fratelli" "Two Brothers in Trinity" (1972), which he also directed.
Richard Harrison (actor) | 1970s exploitation films
president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres. Ankrum appeared in such westerns as "Ride 'Em Cowboy" in 1942, "Vera Cruz" opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, "Apache" (1954), and "Cattle Queen of Montana" with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan.
Morris Ankrum | Film career
Four years later the actor's big break came when, at age fifty-three, the six-foot four-inch actor earned the starring role to portray the former president again in the Broadway production of John Drinkwater's play "Abraham Lincoln". That stage production had a run of 193 performances at the Cort Theatre in Manhattan and then toured the country for over two years. In 1924, McGlynn also performed in an excerpt from Drinkwater's play that was actually recorded. Lee de Forest and J. Searle Dawley produced a two-reel short of "Abraham Lincoln" using De Forest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Unfortunately, with the exceptions of some film stills that survive, no full copy or partial reels of that motion picture have been found.
Frank McGlynn Sr. | Career
Ford's first film of 1950 was the offbeat military comedy "When Willie Comes Marching Home", starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet, with William Demarest, from Preston Sturges 'stock company', and early (uncredited) screen appearances by Alan Hale Jr. and Vera Miles. It was followed by "Wagon Master", starring Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr, which is particularly noteworthy as the only Ford film since 1930 that he scripted himself. It was subsequently adapted into the long-running TV series "Wagon Train" (with Ward Bond reprising the title role until his sudden death in 1960). Although it did far smaller business than most of his other films in this period, Ford cited "Wagon Master" as his personal favorite out of all his films, telling Peter Bogdanovich that it "came closest to what I had hoped to achieve".
John Ford | 1950s
While not initially a success, "Blade Runner" went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford also proved his versatility throughout the 1980s with dramatic parts in films such as "Witness" (1985), "The Mosquito Coast" (1986), and "Frantic" (1988) as well as the romantic male lead opposite Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver in the comedy-drama "Working Girl" (1988). "Witness" and "The Mosquito Coast" in particular allowed Ford to explore his potential as a dramatic actor and both performances were widely acclaimed. Ford would later recall that working with director Peter Weir on both "Witness" and "The Mosquito Coast" were two of the best experiences of his career.
Harrison Ford | 1977–1997
The election scene, moving from bustling confidence to cold defeat, is masterly; the death-bed scene is a triumphant piece of old-style sentiment. Tracy's Skeffington suggests the real power that lies beneath the Irish charm and effrontery." The movie was not a box-office success and recorded a loss of $1.8 million. Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in "The Old Man and the Sea" released earlier that year, but believed his performance in "The Last Hurrah" was superior. Ronald Bergan believed that the movie was perhaps Ford's "most personal" film among his later works.
The Last Hurrah (1958 film) | Reception
Johnson started reading it and when he got to the fifth line and it said "$5,000 a week," he stopped reading, grabbed a pen, and signed it, and gave it back to Ford. His first credited role was in Ford's "3 Godfathers"; the film is notable for the riding skills demonstrated by both Johnson and star Pedro Armendáriz. He later said the film was the most physically challenging of his career. Ford then suggested a starring role for him in the 1949 film "Mighty Joe Young"; he played "Gregg" opposite Terry Moore. Ford cast him in two of the three films that have come to be known as Ford's cavalry trilogy, all starring John Wayne: "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949), and "Rio Grande" (1950); both roles showcased Johnson's riding ability.
Ben Johnson (actor) | Film career
In 1952 A. H. Weiler of "The New York Times" viewed the film "as darlin' a picture as we've seen this year," with "dialogue that is as tuneful as a lark's song." In another contemporary review, the entertainment trade paper "Variety" called the picture "beautifully filmed" and wrote that "Wayne works well under Ford's direction," but found the 129-minute running time "unnecessary." "Harrison's Reports" described the film as "a delightful and rollicking comedy melodrama of Irish life, directed with skill and acted with gusto by a fine cast." Richard L. Coe of "The Washington Post" declared it "a complete jim-dandy ...
The Quiet Man | Reception
In 1936, John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of "The Plough and the Stars". Some of his memorable roles were in Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's "The Quiet Man", opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's "Long Voyage Home". His other films include: "Little Nellie Kelly", "The Keys of the Kingdom", "The Fabulous Dorseys", "Gallant Journey", "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim", "Drums Along the Mohawk", "Apache Drums", "Lady Godiva", "National Velvet" and "The River".
Arthur Shields | Film and television
James Ford (Lawrence, Massachusetts March 21, 1903 – San Diego February 13, 1977) was an American actor in silent and sound films.
James Ford (actor) | Introduction
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film "PT 109", and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Charly". On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic "Return to Earth", played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 miniseries "", and portrayed Henry Ford in "" (1987). His last well-known film appearances were as Uncle Ben in the 2002–2007 "Spider-Man" film trilogy.
Cliff Robertson | Introduction
In 1965, he was cast in a rare comedy role as General Kuhster in Blake Edwards's film "The Great Race". One of Macready's last film roles was as United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull in "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), a depiction of the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
George Macready | Film
He served in the Texas House from 1873–1874.
Henry Harrison Ford | Politics
After graduation, he began working in small theatre groups. While in high school, he took odd jobs, including working for Will Rogers, who taught him horsemanship. Ford later commented that his father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, but told him, "It's all right for you to try to act, if you learn something else first. Be able to take a car apart and put it together. Be able to build a house, every bit of it. Then you'll always have something." Ford heeded the advice and during the 1950s, when he was one of Hollywood's most popular actors, he regularly worked on plumbing, wiring, and air conditioning at home.
Glenn Ford | Early life
He is a ruthless opportunist, willing to go to any lengths to get the nomination. Neither man can stand the other; neither believes his rival qualified to be president. At the nominating convention in Los Angeles, they lobby for the crucial support of dying former President Art Hockstader (Tracy). The pragmatic Hockstader (a character based on Harry S. Truman, particularly his comments on "striking a blow for liberty" whenever he drinks a bourbon) prefers Russell, but worries about his indecision and principles; he despises Cantwell for his lack of intellect, but appreciates his toughness and willingness to do whatever it takes.
The Best Man (1964 film) | Plot
The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. While Redford did not receive an Academy Award or Golden Globe nomination for playing the Sundance Kid, he did win a British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA) for that role and his parts in "Downhill Racer"; (1969) and "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1969). The latter two films and the subsequent "Little Fauss and Big Halsy" (1970), and "The Hot Rock" (1972) were not commercially successful. The political satire "The Candidate" (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success.
Robert Redford | Film
By the time film was to start, 17 years after the original, Peck and Niven were considered too old and the decision was made to recast. By October 1977 the main cast had been settled: Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Harrison Ford, Franco Nero, Barbara Bach. Shaw said "I find it a bit ridiculous at my age to be running around a mountain in Yugoslavia saying 'Let's go'." It was Ford's first movie after the release of "Star Wars". He says he picked the part because it was a "strong supporting character" that was "very different from Han Solo. I wanted to avoid being stereotyped as a science fiction type." Ford later said he did the film "to take advantage of the chance to work.
Force 10 from Navarone (film) | Casting
Harrison, "The Thing About My Folks" 2005; James Lamson, "Dan in Real Life" 2007; Father Joe, "Pistol Whipped" 2008; Old Man on Scooter, "", 2009
Bernie McInerney | Film appearances
Also in 2010, he co-starred in the film "Morning Glory", along with Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Patrick Wilson. Although a disappointment at the box office, Ford's performance was well received by critics, some of which thought it was his best role in years. In July 2011, Ford starred alongside Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde in the science-fiction/western hybrid film "Cowboys & Aliens". To promote the film, Ford appeared at the San Diego Comic-Con International and, apparently surprised by the warm welcome, told the audience, "I just wanted to make a living as an actor. I didn't know about this." Also in 2011, Ford starred in Japanese commercials advertising the video game "" for the PlayStation 3.
Harrison Ford | 1998–2014
The film was also a commercial success, grossing $320.6 million in theaters against a $75 million budget. The following year, Close appeared in another box office hit with "Air Force One" (1997), playing the trustworthy vice president to Harrison Ford's president. Ford stated in an interview that the role of the vice president was already written for a woman and that he personally chose Close for the role after meeting her at a birthday party for then-president Bill Clinton. Close would later star in the war film "Paradise Road" (1997) as a choir conductor of the women imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II.
Glenn Close | Established actress (1990–1999)
George W. Bush, 43rd president. Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president. John F. Kennedy, 35th president. Ted Kennedy, senator. Abraham Lincoln, 16th president. Richard Nixon, 37th president. Harvey Milk, San Francisco council member.
List of political biography films | United States
Two plays, "The Best Man: A Play about Politics" (1960, made into a film in 1964) and "Visit to a Small Planet" (1955) were theatre and movie successes; Vidal occasionally returned to the movie business, and wrote historically accurate teleplays and screenplays about subjects important to him. Two such movies are the cowboy movie "Billy the Kid" (1989), about William H. Bonney, a gunman in the New Mexico territory Lincoln County War (1878), and later an outlaw in the U.S. Western frontier; and the Roman Empire movie "Caligula" (1979), from which Vidal had his screenwriter credit removed, because the producer, Bob Guccione, the director, Tinto Brass and the leading actor, Malcolm McDowell, rewrote the script and added extra sex and violence to increase the commercial success of a movie based upon the life of the Roman Emperor Caligula (AD 12–41).
Gore Vidal | Hollywood
Writing for "The Spectator" in 1935, Graham Greene praised the film as "a memorable picture" the substance of which made "superb material for the screen". Greene singled out the acting of Victor McLaglen for specific praise, noting that he had "never given an abler performance". The film was popular at the box office, earning a profit of $325,000 and remains one of John Ford's most widely referenced films.
The Informer (1935 film) | Reception
He worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout Camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989). Ford graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
Harrison Ford | Early life
Harrison Ford, Clear and Present Danger
1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | Favorite Actor in an Action/Adventure/Thriller - Theatrical
In Steven Spielberg's 2012 film, "Lincoln", Pendleton is played by Peter McRobbie and portrayed as one of the most notable opponents of the Thirteenth Amendment and of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
George H. Pendleton | In popular culture
Bush's film work includes appearances in "The Savage Seven" (1968), "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "Monte Walsh" (1970), "The Jesus Trip" (1971), "The Organization" (1971), "Welcome Home, Soldier Boys" (1972), "The Culpepper Cattle Co." (1972), "40 Carats" (1973), "Electra Glide in Blue" (1973) where his performance caused some critics to characterize his screen persona as "irrepressibly unique"; "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), "Mackintosh and T.J." (1975), "The Call of the Wild" (1976), "The Beasts Are on the Streets" (1978), "The Jericho Mile" (1979), "Tom Horn" (1980), "The River" (1984), "The Hitcher" (1986), "Critters" (1986), "Rampage" (1987) and "" (1993).
Billy &quot;Green&quot; Bush | Film
Released in 1963, the film starred Robert Clarke and Dorothy Haney. Other films in that decade were "Attack of the Mayan Mummy" in 1964, and "The Human Duplicators" in 1965. It's likely his last acting work was as Jesse in the "Ace in the Hole episode of "The Green Hornet".
William White (actor) | Actor
Thomas' parents were Jesse and Virginia Thomas. He first appeared on Broadway in 1914. Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s. His best-known films were "We Who Are About To Die" (1937), "A Man to Remember" (1938), "A Shot In the Dark" (1941), "Desert Trail" (1942), and "No Place for a Lady" (1943). His last screen appearance was in "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976). He performed frequently on television from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was president (Shepherd) of The Lambs (1962-63). His film appearances were so prolific at one point in his career that, in 1937 alone, he appeared in 21 films.
Frank M. Thomas | Biography
Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic "Gone with the Wind", as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes | Introduction
This is Ford's best performance since "The Fugitive", maybe since "Witness"".
The Age of Adaline | Critical response
Over the course of his film career he would appear in such notable films as: "Kitty Foyle" (1940), starring Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan; 1945's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", starring George Sanders; "Tycoon" (1947), starring John Wayne and Laraine Day; "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming; "Young Man with a Horn", starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn vehicle, "Pat and Mike" (1952); again with Paul Newman in 1956's "Somebody Up There Likes Me"; "The Last Angry Man", starring Paul Muni; with Rock Hudson and Doris Day in "Lover Come Back" (1961); the spy spoof, "Our Man Flint" (1966), starring James Coburn; and 1967's "A Big Hand for the Little Lady", starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, and Jason Robards.
Fred Aldrich | Introduction
Parfrey's frequent association with that film's director, Franklin Schaffner, also included a bit as Maximus, one of the three "See No Evil" orangutan judges in "Planet of the Apes" (1968). His many film credits include parts in "Cattle King" (1963), "The War Lord" (1965), "The King's Pirate" (1967), "How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life" (1968), "Madigan" (1968), "Sam Whiskey" (1969), "Cold Turkey" (1971), "Dirty Harry" (1971), "Oklahoma Crude" (1973), "Charley Varrick" (1973) "Stay Hungry" (1976), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel" (1979), "Carny" (1980), "Bronco Billy" (1980), "Used Cars" (1980), "The Seduction" (1982), "Frances" (1982) and "Jinxed" (1982).
Woodrow Parfrey | Career
During his attendance at Colgate University he served as an intern for Senator Roman Hruska and attended an anti-Vietnam War rally. He later criticized "Forrest Gump" for its depiction of Abbie Hoffman, but stated that he still enjoyed the movie as "it was a travelogue of my early life". From 1971 to 1974, he attended and graduated from Creighton University with a Juris Doctor. From 1974 to 1975, he served as a staff attorney for the Federal Highway Administration.
Brad Ashford | Early life
In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.
William Lundigan | Politics
He is portrayed by actor Walton Goggins in the 2012 film "Lincoln".
Wells A. Hutchins | Legacy
Tannen's first credited role was as Luther Botts in 1934 in the film short, "My Grandfather's Clock." Most of his early film roles were uncredited. He became a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1930s and '40s, where he appeared often uncredited in bit parts and smaller roles. In 1954, he played Emmett Dalton in the film, "Jesse James vs. the Daltons". Brett King played the role of Joe Branch, reputed son of Jesse James in this historically inaccurate picture. That same year, Tannen played O'Connor in the film "Sitting Bull", with J. Carrol Naish in the title role. and Iron Eyes Cody as Crazy Horse, and also starring Dale Robertson.
William Tannen | Other roles
Many noted actors read lines of various historical figures. A series of American university professors of history and political figures discussed background information. Actors included: Historians and political commentators included: Daniel Boorstin, Andrew Burstein, Joseph Ellis, Clay S. Jenkinson, Gore Vidal, George Will, Garry Wills, John Hope Franklin, James Oliver Horton and Julian Bond.
Thomas Jefferson (film) | Actors and historians
Ford created a part for the recovering Ward Bond, who needed money. Although he was seen throughout the movie, he never walked until they put in a part where he was shot in the leg. For the rest of the picture, he was able to use a crutch on the final march. Ford repeatedly declared that he disliked the film and had never watched it, complaining that he had been forced to make it, although it was strongly championed by filmmaker Lindsay Anderson. Released several months after the end of the war, it was among the year's top 20 box-office draws, although Tag Gallagher notes that many critics have incorrectly claimed that it lost money.
John Ford | War years
The Senator Was Indiscreet is a 1947 comedy film, the only movie directed by playwright, theatrical director/producer, humorist, and drama critic George S. Kaufman. Produced by Universal Pictures it starred William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the detailed diary he has kept about all the political misdeeds of his colleagues. Powell won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performances in this film and in "Life with Father". The film also was known as Mr. Ashton Was Indiscreet (see photo).
The Senator Was Indiscreet | Introduction
The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate. The supporting cast features Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Ann Sothern, Shelley Berman, Gene Raymond, and Kevin McCarthy. Lee Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, and it was his final film.
The Best Man (1964 film) | Introduction
In his last years Ford was dogged by declining health, largely the result of decades of heavy drinking and smoking, and exacerbated by the wounds he suffered during the Battle of Midway. His vision, in particular, began to deteriorate rapidly and at one point he briefly lost his sight entirely; his prodigious memory also began to falter, making it necessary to rely more and more on assistants. His work was also restricted by the new regime in Hollywood, and he found it hard to get many projects made. By the 1960s he had been pigeonholed as a Western director and complained that he now found it almost impossible to get backing for projects in other genres.
John Ford | Last years, 1960–1973
Ford acted in West Coast stage companies and had a role in the short "Night in Manhattan" (1937) before joining Columbia Pictures in 1939. His stage name came from his father's hometown of Glenford, Alberta. His first major movie part was in "Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence" (1939) at 20th Century Fox, written by Dalton Trumbo. Ford's first movie for Columbia was a "B", "My Son Is Guilty" (1939). He went on to other "B" movies such as "Convicted Woman" (1940), "Men Without Souls" (1940), "Babies for Sale" (1940) and "Blondie Plays Cupid" (1941). Ford was in the bigger budgeted "The Lady in Question" (1940), which co-starred Rita Hayworth.
Glenn Ford | Columbia Pictures
I'm not so much a Republican or Democrat; I go more for the man himself. Ronald Reagan says what he thinks, he's not afraid to speak his mind, even if he may be unpopular. I want a strong leader and he is a strong leader. And ever since he has been in office there has been a more positive, patriotic feeling in this country."
Missing in Action (film) | Development