Glenn Ford Biography

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford

(1916–2006)

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  • 1958 Imitation General
  • 1958 Torpedo Run
  • 1959 It Started with a Kiss
  • 1959 The Gazebo
  • 1960 Cimarron
  • 1961 Cry for Happy
  • 1961 Pocketful of Miracles
  • 1962 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • 1962 Experiment in Terror
  • 1963 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  • 1963 Love is a Ball
  • 1964 Advance to the Rear
  • 1964 Fate is the Hunter
  • 1964 Dear Heart
  • 1965 The Rounders
  • 1965 The Money Trap
  • 1966 Is Paris Burning?
  • 1966 Rage
  • 1967 A Time for Killing
  • 1967 The Last Challenge
  • 1968 Day of the Evil Gun
  • 1969 Smith!
  • 1969 Heaven with a Gun
  • 1973 Santee
  • Films
  • 1939 Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence
  • 1939 My Son is Guilty
  • 1940 Convicted Woman
  • 1940 Men Without Souls
  • 1940 Babies for Sale
  • 1940 The Lady in Question
  • 1940 Blondie Plays Cupid
  • 1941 So Ends Our Night
  • 1941 Texas
  • 1941 Go West, Young Lady
  • 1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden
  • 1942 Flight Lieutenant
  • 1943 The Desperadoes
  • 1943 Destroyer
  • 1946 Gilda
  • 1946 A Stolen Life
  • 1946 Gallant Journey
  • 1947 Framed
  • 1948 The Mating of Millie
  • 1948 The Man from Colorado
  • 1948 The Loves of Carmen
  • 1948 The Return of October
  • 1976 Midway
  • 1978 Superman
  • 1949 The Undercover Man
  • 1949 The Lust for Gold
  • 1949 Mr Soft Touch
  • 1949 The Doctor and the Girl
  • 1950 The White Tower
  • 1950 Convicted
  • 1950 The Flying Missile
  • 1951 The Redhead and the Cowboy
  • 1951 Follow the Sun
  • 1951 The Secret of Convict Lake
  • 1952 The Green Glove
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Actor, born in Quebec, Canada. Raised in Portneuf, Quebec, at age seven he moved with his family to Santa Monica, CA. After high school he began working with small theatre groups and won his first film part in Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence in 1939. After military service in World War 2 he returned to acting, and went on to establish his reputation in lead roles in westerns, dramas, and romantic films. His many films included Gilda (1946), with Rita Hayworth, The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), and Heaven with a Gun (1969). From the 1970s he appeared mainly in supporting roles in television series, such as Cade's County (1971–2). Married four times, his first marriage (1943–59) was to tap dancer Eleanor Powell (1912–82); their son Peter Ford (1945– ) became an actor.

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