Glenn Ford

Also known as Gwyllyn Ford, Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, Ford, Glenn

Canadian-American actor (1916–2006)

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Glenn Ford (1916–2006) was a Canadian and American film, television, and character actor who also served as a military officer. Born in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, he began his work period in 1939. Ford held citizenship in both Canada and the United States and was a member of the Republican Party. He served in the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

His career included receiving the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Legion of Honour, and the Donostia Award. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ford was married to Kathryn Hays and Eleanor Powell. He died of a stroke in Beverly Hills and is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 2

Top works

Fundamentals of Tabletop Miniatures Game Design
Talking It Over

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Film & TV

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).

Known for

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 — Self1989
My Town — Lucas Wheeler1986
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' — Self1982
Happy Birthday to Me — Dr. David Faraday1981

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1919-02-13
Active to: 1991-10-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 36

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1)
· 2009 · cited 25,060x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,560x
Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores
· 1998 · cited 10,933x
QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies
· 2013 · cited 10,536x
Chronic Kidney Disease and the Risks of Death, Cardiovascular Events, and Hospitalization
· 2004 · cited 9,481x

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Glenn
Family name: Ford
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne
Place of death: Beverly Hills
Occupation: military personnel
Political party: Republican Party (United States)
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Donostia Award
Genre: drama film
Conflict: World War II
Military branch: United States Marine Corps
Official website: www.glennford.com
Image: Glenn Ford (1979).jpg
Height: 179

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place of burial: Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
Commons category: Glenn Ford
date of birth: 1916-05-01
date of death: 2006-08-30
cause of death: stroke
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Glenn Ford
start of work period: 1939-00-00
birth name: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford
writing language: English language
name in native language: Glenn Ford

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Encyclopedic overview

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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