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Something wrong?He played ordinary men caught in circumstances that weren't - a mechanic opposite Rita Hayworth in Gilda, a cop bent on revenge in The Big Heat, a teacher facing down teenage fury in Blackboard Jungle.
A life in dates
Happy Birthday to MeFilm, Dr. David Faraday1979
Beggarman, ThiefSeries, David Donnelly
The VisitorFilm, 1979Det. Jake Durham1976
Once an EagleSeries, George Caldwell
MidwayFilm, 1976Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance1975The Family HolvakSeries1973
Police StorySeries1968
Day of the Evil GunFilm, Lorn Warfield1966
Hollywood SquaresSeries1965
The Dean Martin ShowSeries
The RoundersFilm, 1965Ben Jones1963
The Courtship of Eddie's FatherFilm, Tom Corbett1962
The Merv Griffin ShowSeries1961Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyAward
Pocketful of MiraclesFilm, 1961Dave 'The Dude' Conway1959
The GazeboFilm, Elliott Nash1957
3:10 to YumaFilm, Ben Wade1955
MGM ParadeSeries, Dave Stannard in 'Ransom!' (archive footage)
Blackboard JungleFilm, 1955Richard Dadier1952
This Is Your LifeSeries
Affair in TrinidadFilm, 1952Steve Emery1949
Lust for GoldFilm, Jacob 'Dutch' Walz1947
FramedFilm, Mike Lambert1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1943
The DesperadoesFilm, Cheyenne Rogers1916Born1 May 1916Also in Deutsch
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Captain Glenn Ford, United States Naval Reserve
Ford at age 63 at the National Film Society convention in 1979
Diana Lynn and Glenn Ford in Plunder of the Sun, 1953
Ford and Vic Morrow in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Ford along with Pilar Pellicer in 1968
Ford and Kathryn Hays on their wedding day in 1966
Ford with his third wife Cynthia Hayward in 1977On YouTube
62 subscribersFilmography 40
HMHappy Birthday to Me
SISuperman II
VIVirusTVThe Visitor
SUSupermanMIMidway
HGHeaven with a GunDGDay of the Evil Gun
AKA Time for Killing
TCThe Last Challenge
IBIs Paris Burning?TRThe Rounders
FHFate Is the HunterTFThe Courtship of Eddie's Father
ETExperiment in Terror
TAThe Four Horsemen of the ApocalypsePMPocketful of Miracles
CICimarronTGThe Gazebo
TSThe Sheepman
COCowboy
TRTorpedo RunTY3:10 to Yuma
TMThe Teahouse of the August Moon
JUJubal
TAThe Fastest Gun AliveBJBlackboard Jungle
TMThe Violent Men
HDHuman Desire
THThe Big Heat
TAThe Man from the AlamoATAffair in Trinidad
TLThe Secret of Convict Lake
TMThe Undercover ManLGLust for Gold
TCThe Man from ColoradoFRFramed
GIGilda
ALA Stolen LifeTDThe Desperadoes138 credits on file
Television 20
TSThe SackettsBTBeggarman, Thief
EBEvening in ByzantiumOEOnce an Eagle
DIDinah!PSPolice Story
CCCade's County
OWOnce Upon a WheelHSHollywood SquaresTSThe Dean Martin Show
HSHollywood and the Stars
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonTSThe Merv Griffin Show
TSThe Dick Powell ShowMPMGM ParadeTLThis Is Your Life
TSThe Bob Hope ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Canada on May 1, 1916, he became Glenn Ford and spent more than fifty years as a Hollywood fixture. The 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s made him a box-office anchor, with noir and drama his strongest suits but Westerns and comedies earning him three Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy - he won for Pocketful of Miracles in 1961. Five of his films landed in the National Film Registry: Gilda in 1946, The Big Heat in 1953, Blackboard Jungle in 1955, 3:10 to Yuma in 1957, and Superman in 1978, where he played Jonathan Kent. He died August 30, 2006.
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