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FilmographyActor CreditsK-19 The Widowmaker [2002] Six Days and Seven Nights [1998] The Fugative [1993] Indiana Jones and the Last Cruisade [1989] Star Wars Return of the Jedi [1983] Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back [1980] Star Wars [1977] TV Shows/SeriesStar Wars Holiday Special (Han Solo) [1978] (# of episodes: 1) Other InformationAwardsRole Model Award OTHER [2003] (Won/Nominated: Won) Taurus Honorary Award OTHER [2003] (Won/Nominated: Won) Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame [2003] (Won/Nominated: Won) Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globes [2002] (Won/Nominated: Won) People`s Choice Award/Favorite Motion Picture Actor OTHER [2000] (Won/Nominated: Won) Life Achievement Award OTHER [2000] (Won/Nominated: Won) People`s Choice Award/Favorite All-Time Movie Star OTHER [1999] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Comedy/Romance Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1999] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Video Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1999] (Won/Nominated: Nom) MTV Movie Award/Best Fight MTV Movie Awards [1998] (Won/Nominated: Nom) People`s Choice Award/Favorite Motion Picture Actor OTHER [1998] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Action/Adventure Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1998] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Bambi/Film - International OTHER [1997] (Won/Nominated: Won) KCFCC Award/Best Actor OTHER [1996] (Won/Nominated: Won) Man of the Year/Hasty Pudding Theatricals OTHER [1996] (Won/Nominated: Won) Golden Globe/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical Golden Globes [1996] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Life Achievement Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA [1996] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Action, On Video Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1995] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Action, Theatrical Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1995] (Won/Nominated: Won) Box Office Star of the Century/ShoWest Convention OTHER [1994] (Won/Nominated: Won) MTV Movie Award/Best Male Performance MTV Movie Awards [1994] (Won/Nominated: Nom) MTV Movie Award/Best On-Screen Duo (with Tommy Lee Jones) MTV Movie Awards [1994] (Won/Nominated: Won) Blockbuster Entertainment Award/Favorite Actor - Action, On Video Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [1994] (Won/Nominated: Won) Golden Globe/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes [1994] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Golden Globe/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes [1987] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Golden Globe/Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes [1986] (Won/Nominated: Nom) BAFTA Film Award/Best Actor BAFTA Awards [1986] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Oscar/Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1986] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Saturn Award/Best Actor Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA [1985] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Sour Apple/Golden Apple Awards OTHER [1982] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Saturn Award/Best Actor Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA [1982] (Won/Nominated: Won) Saturn Award/Best Actor Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA [1981] (Won/Nominated: Nom) Literature/PublicityMagazine CoversPeople (United States) [23 June 2003] Life (United States) [June 1984] |
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Harrison Ford Biography |
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Harrison Ford`s father was a local advertising executive who sometimes worked as a radio actor, and his mother was a former radio actress who stayed home and tended the children. The family was of all-American mixed heritage, German, Irish, and Catholic on his father`s side, Russian Jewish on his mother`s side.
As a boy, he was `Harry Ford`, a C student in high school who never played sports, but he tinkered with electronics in the school`s radio club. His school district had (and still has) its own radio station, but that nerdy hobby scored Ford no particular popularity. He says he never dated in high school. In college he signed up for drama classes for, he has said, two reasons: He thought the class would be easy and thus raise his low grade point average, and he was hoping to meet women. He got a good grade, and met and married a woman from that class, but he also discovered that he loved performing. He made his first stage appearance as Mac the Knife in the school`s production of Threepenny Opera, but he was inevitably expelled from college, due to academic problems. He sidestepped the military draft -- and the Vietnam war -- by filing as a conscientious objector. When he was required to appear before the draft board and explain his stance, he instead feigned general nuttiness in a performance that convinced his interrogators he was not military material. Ford made his professional debut performing in locally-produced plays in Wisconsin, and soon came to Hollywood, where he worked as a carpenter while looking for work as an actor. He was eventually signed as a contract player at Columbia, making $150 a week -- good money -- but only when he was assigned a role, which was not often. He made his first screen appearance with one line as the bellhop in the 1966 heist adventure Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round with James Coburn. His first substantial speaking part came in the Civil War western A Time for Killing with Glenn Ford (no relation). He was an adequate actor, but he had no shyness about complaining when the scripts were poor, and he had no patience for bad advice. In one encounter, a studio executive scolded Ford for his lack of on-camera charisma, telling him that even in Cary Grant`s earliest roles, even if he was playing a grocery clerk, you could tell he was destined to be a star. Ford replied, "I thought the point of acting was to make you think he was a grocery clerk." Understandably unpopular with management, Ford was eventually fired. He then signed with Universal, where he worked occasionally on TV shows like The Mod Squad, The Partridge Family, and Love American Style, before he was fired again. At that point, Ford decided that carpentry was more satisfying work than the shallow, tedious sitcom bits he was doing. By then he had a reputation as a top-notch carpenter, so he had plenty of work. He constructed a recording studio for Sergio Mendes, a sun deck for Sally Kellerman, and after The Godfather proved a huge hit, Ford was hired for an expansion of Francis Ford Coppola`s office. A few months later, Ford was an actor again, working for producer Coppola and director George Lucas, playing the hot-rodder who raced Paul Le Mat in American Graffiti. He almost turned the role down, though -- carpentry paid better. He later had a small but pivotal role in Coppola`s The Conversation with Gene Hackman, but acting was still Ford`s secondary career. Then he was hired to build some Biography Credit: www.nndb.com/people/812/000022746/ |
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Trivia |
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BiographyDistinctive FeaturesScar on ChinFriends and FamilyTerence Ford [Brother] (April 21,1945) :: Dorothy Nidelman [Mother] ((radio actress, b. 17-Oct-1917)) :: Christopher Ford [Father] ((advertising executive, b. 20-Nov-1906, d. 10-Feb-1999))Trivia and QuotesQuotes (asked if he believes in "the Force":) "I think the Force is in you. Force yourself." (on Star Wars) - "I understood the impact of those movies because I had young children who watched them religiously. I saw the Star Wars films so often in my house that I ended up knowing all of the other actors lines." If people recognize me when I`m out in public, I`m very nice to them. I`m very nice to people even when they don`t recognize me. I don`t even mind if people come up to me while I`m eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I`m having sex, I refuse to sign autographs. Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot." [On playing Indianna Jones again] "No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I`m still quite fit enough to fake it." "I don`t use any particular method. I`m from the lets-pretend school of acting." "Starring in a science fiction film doesn`t mean you have to act science fiction." "You know you are getting old when all the names in your black book have MD after them." I don`t do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I`m doing." [On being a leading man] "I`m like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don`t want to put out a fire in a dumpster."Trivia Both his Indiana Jones jacket and fedora hat are on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Credited with "creating" what many believe to be the best scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) because he was suffering from a bout of dysentery at the time of filming: during the scene in Cairo with the swordsman in black, the script called for a much longer fight, but because of his condition, he quietly asked director Steven Spielberg if they could shorten the scene. Spielberg`s reply was that the only way it could be done would be if Indy pulled out his gun and "just shot the guy." The rest of the crew, not aware of the change, laughed at this, and it remained in the final cut. Has a species of Central American ant (Peidole harrisonfordi) and spider (Calponia Harrisonfordi) named after him in honor of his conservation work. The U.S. box office grosses of all of Ford`s films total about $3.18 billion, with worldwide grosses totaling approximately $5.65 billion. No other actor in history has box-office grosses as large as Ford`s. Was offered the part of Mike Stivic on "All in the Family" (1971), but turned it down, citing the bigotry of Archie Bunker was too offensive. Considers The Mosquito Coast (1986) to be the favorite of all his movies. He was billed as Harrison J. Ford until 1970 for less confusion between him and silent-screen actor Harrison Ford. He actually has no middle name. Lives in a white-painted ranch house that he built himself in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Piloted his helicopter to rescue dehydrated 20-year-old hiker Sarah George from Table Mountain near his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [31 July 2000] Was a master carpenter before becoming a movie star, a craft he still does as a hobby. | ||
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