Biography
.. Competent... Glenn Ford embodied these qualities as an actor and as a man. He once stated that he was never acting; he was just playing himself, and the statement did not seem disingenuous. In a career that spanned over 50 years, he worked constantly in movies and TV but never received an Academy Award or Emmy Award nomination. He was one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars during the 1950s, but still enjoyed working on the plumbing, …
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Career Milestones
| Made exhibitors poll of top ten boxoffice stars, placing 5th in 1956, 1st in 1958, and 6th in 1959 | ||
| Spent two years as Tallulah Bankhead's stage manager | ||
| Starred in CBS series "Cade's County" | ||
1920 | Stage debut in "Tom Thumb's Wedding" | |
1935 | Appeared on Broadway in Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" | |
1937 | Short film acting debut in "Night in Manhattan" (Paramount) | |
1939 | Feature film debut in Columbia's "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence" | |
1939 | Tested and signed by Columbia | |
1940 | First film with Rita Hayworth, Charles Vidor's "The Lady in Question" | |
1941 | First of eight films with director George Marshall, "Texas" | |
1942 | Served in United States Marine Corps | |
1946 | Soared to popularity in Vidor's "Gilda" (opposite Rita Hayworth) and Curtis Bernhardt's "A Stolen Life" (with Bette Davis playing a dual role and debuting as producer) | |
1948 | Last film with Vidor, "The Loves of Carmen" | |
1953 | First of two films with Fritz Lang, "The Big Heat" (also the follow-up "Human Desire" 1954) | |
1955 | Portrayed NYC public school teacher in Richard Brooks' "The Blackboard Jungle", adapted from Evan Hunter's novel | |
1956 | Demonstrated his facility for comedy in "Teahouse of the August Moon" | |
1956 | Played peace-loving storekeeper in "The Fastest Gun Alive" | |
1958 | Acted the part of a stern cattle boss in "Cowboy" | |
1961 | Second movie opposite Bette Davis, Frank Capra's final film, "A Pocketful of Miracles", a remake of Capra's 1933 "Lady for a Day"; also served as associate producer | |
1961 | Starred in Vincent Minnelli's glossy World War II picture "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" | |
1963 | Reunited with Minnelli for "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" with Ron Howard | |
1965 | Eleventh and last film with character actor Edgar Buchanan, "The Rounders" | |
1966 | Appeared in Rene Clement's "Is Paris Burning?" | |
1966 | Fifth and final film with Hayworth, "The Money Trap" | |
1974 | Donned the cloth as Reverend Tom Holvak opposite Julie Harris as his wife Elizabeth in NBC movie "The Greatest Gift" and subsequent short-lived, 1975 spin-off series, "The Family Holvak" | |
1976 | Portrayed Rear Admiral Raymond Spruane in "Midway" | |
1978 | Acted the part of Christopher Reeve's father on Earth in "Superman" | |
1979 | Appeared in NBC miniseries "The Sacketts"; cast included Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Ben Johnson | |
1980 | Acted in "Virus", allegedly the biggest budgeted Japanese film to date | |
1986 | Grandfatherly turn as Amos in "My Town", an ABC "Disney Sunday Movie" | |
1991 | Last feature to date, "Raw Nerve" | |
1991 | Played Adela Rogers St Johns' famous defense lawyer father in TNT movie "The Final Verdict" | |
1992 | Hospitalized in intensive care with a heart problem and several blood clots; condition upgraded to "serious" in July after nearly a month; released in August | |
Awards
1956 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in The Teahouse of the August Moon |
1957 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in Don't Go Near the Water |
1958 | BAFTA Award for Foreign Actor in The Sheepman |
1961 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in A Pocketful of Miracles |
1987 | San Sebastian International Film Festival for Donostia Award |