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Glenn Ford Biography

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford

(1916–2006)

Related Works

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.