Glenn Ford
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Glenn Ford was a Canadian-American actor who had a long career in Hollywood spanning several decades during the 20th century. He is remembered as a significant figure in film history who appeared in numerous movies across different genres from the 1930s through the 2000s.
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- 1916-05-01
- Died
- 2006-08-30
- Works
- 2
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- Fundamentals of Tabletop Miniatures Game Design
- Talking It Over
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Acting · Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era, with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances, and appeared in films such as Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), and Superman (1978).
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- The Making of Midway — Self2001
- Final Verdict — Rev. Rogers1991
- Raw Nerve — Captain Gavin1991
- Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream — Self1990
- Casablanca Express — Major Gen. Williams1989
- Border Shootout — Sheriff Danaher1989
- William Holden: The Golden Boy — Self
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
Ford often portrayed ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Although he starred in many genres of film, some of his most significant roles were in the films noir Gilda (1946) and The Big Heat (1953), and the high-school drama Blackboard Jungle (1955). For comedies and Westerns, though, he received acting laurels, including three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, winning for Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He also played a supporting role as Superman's mild-mannered alter ego Clark Kent's adoptive farmer father, Jonathan Kent, in the first film of the franchise series Superman (1978).
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1916 births2006 deaths20th-century American male actors20th-century Canadian male actorsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male radio actorsAmerican male television actorsAmerican recipients of the Legion of HonourAnglophone Quebec peopleBest Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winnersBurials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica