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Glenn Ford
Age: 90 (passed away Aug. 30th, 2006)
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Place: Sainte-Christine, Quebec, Canada
Born: May. 1st, 1916
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NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: The son of a Canadian railroad executive, his family moved to Santa Monica, California, when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school, followed by acting in West Coast, a traveling theater company. In 1939 he took a screen test for Columbia Pictures, which won him a contract, although he debuted in 20th-Century-Fox's Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939). His rise to stardom was interrupted by military service during WWII. After the war he jump-started his career with Gilda (1946). His career during the 1940s and 1950s showed that his talents were extensive, playing film noir in The Big Heat (1953), westerns like 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and comedies like The Gazebo (1959) or The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956). He has usually been cast as a calm and collected everyday-hero, showing courage under pressure as in Blackboard Jungle (1955). Since the 1970s he has mainly done supporting roles in mini-series.
TRIVIA:
- Retired from acting in 1991 following heart and circulatory problems.
- (1992) Awarded the French Legion of Honor Medal by the Country of France for his service in World War II.
- Quit smoking cigarettes in 1958.
- He was replaced by 'Robert Mitchum' (qv) in _"African Skies" (1991)_ (qv) after being hospitalized with blood clots in his legs.
- After having been a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for a year, he joined the Marine Corps during WWII in December of 1942, and subsequently met first wife, tap-dancing extraordinaire 'Eleanor Powell (I)' (qv), at a war-bond cavalcade. They married in 1943.
- He is a direct descendant of President Martin Van Buren
- Received a special tribute as part of the Annual Memorial tribute at _The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV)_ (qv).
- Ford had been scheduled to make his first public appearance in fifteen years at a 90th birthday tribute gala in his honor hosted by the American Cinematheque at Grauman's Eqyptian Theatre in Hollywood on 1 May 2006, but he was unable to attend. He had suffered a series of minor strokes since his retirement, and was consequently very frail.
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