2Nd Part--- Harrison Ford, Jane Fonda

Harrison Ford,(689. www.joeltoft.se / Paintings 2nd part / Famous people 1st part / Pages 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Links to all parts on this site Page 28. (In Famous people part 1) February 2013 Harrison Ford Jane Fonda Harrison Ford Oil on canvas 21 x 33 cm Top Next Other image size Harrison Ford From Wikipedia, the free Ford in 2010 July 13, 1942 (age 70) Born Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Occupation Actor, producer Occupation Actor, producer Years active 1966–present Mary Marquardt (1964–1979; divorced) Spouse(s) Melissa Mathison (1983–2004; divorced) Calista Flockhart Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American film actor and producer. He is Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and the title character of the roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness Danger HIDE TEXT His career has spanned six decades and includes roles in several Hollywood Innocent, The Fugitive, Air Force One, and What Lies Beneath included one of his roles.[1] Five of his films have been inducted into the In 1997, Ford was ranked No. 1 in Empire's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. As of July 2008 domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US$3.5 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U.S. domestic box-office star. Flockhart Early life Ford was born July 13, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois' Swedish Covenant Hospital Nidelman), was a homemaker and former radio actress, and his father, Christopher Ford (born John William was an advertising executive and a former actor.[4][5] A younger brother, grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of respectively.[4] Ford's maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Minsk, Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). raised, Ford has jokingly responded, "Democrat,"[6] "to be liberals of every stripe". in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated "As a Jewish." Ford was active in the Boy Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because Scout director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Jones and the Last Crusade. They also jokingly reversed Ford's knowledge of reptiles into Jones' In 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois on his high school's new radio station, WMTH,[8] and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year (1959–1960). He attended Ripon College in Wisconsin,[8] where he was a member of the in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness. became fascinated with acting. Early career In 1964, Ford traveled to Los Angeles, California to apply for a job in radio California and eventually signed a $150 a week contract with in films. His first known part was an uncredited role as a bellhop in little record of his non-speaking roles (or "extra" work) in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star; Ford felt managed to secure other roles in movies, such as A Time for Killing (The Long Ride Hamilton and Inger Stevens His speaking roles continued next with Luv (1967), though he was still uncredited. He was finally credited as J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film, A Time for Killing, but the "J" did not stand for anything, since he has no middle name. It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named films between 1915 and 1932, and died in 1957. Ford later said that he was unaware of the existence of the Harrison Ford until he came upon a star with his own name on "J" and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I. western Journey to Shiloh (1968) and had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Zabriskie Point, as an arrested student protester. Not happy with the roles being taught professional carpenter[8] to support his then-wife and two small sons. a stagehand for the popular rock band The Doors. He also built a sun deck for actress studio for Brazilian band leader He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of director supporting role for his film American Graffiti (1973).[8] Ford's relationship with Lucas would profoundly affect his career later on. After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation film he played a smarmy officer named "G. Milestone franchises Star Wars Ford's carpentry work eventually landed him his first starring film role. In 1975, for actors auditioning for parts in his Star Wars (1977). Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's portrayal, and cast him as Han Solo.[12] Star Wars became one of the most successful movies of all time as a superstar.[8] He went on to star in the similarly-successful Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as The Star Wars Holiday Special end of either sequel, saying, "That would have given Indiana The type of fedora worn by Ford in the Harrison Ford with Chandran Rutnam on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Sri Lanka Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified when he starred as collaboration Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).[8] Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.[14] and the Temple of Doom (1984) and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade role as Indiana Jones again for a 1993 episode of the television series fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Other film Ford has been in numerous other films, including Heroes (1977), (1979). Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy- with a heart of gold. He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness (1985) and Frantic (1988). The 1990s brought Ford the role of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy (1994), as well as leading roles in Alan Pakula's Presumed Innocent The Fugitive (1993), Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina (1995), and played straight dramatic roles, including an adulterous husband in both Beneath (2000), and a recovering amnesiac in Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this (Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October Recent roles Ford in 2007 Starting in the late 1990s, Ford appeared in several critically derided and including Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Random Hearts (1999), (2003), Firewall (2006), and Extraordinary Measures (2010). One exception was 2000's over $155 million in the United States and $291 million In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller Syriana about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake." won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work. Prior to that, he written role, Robert Wakefield in Traffic In 2008, Ford enjoyed success with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008.[17] He later said he would like to star in another sequel, "...if it take another 20 years to digest." Other 2008 work included Crossing Over, directed by Wayne Kramer. In the film, he plays an immigrations working alongside Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta.[19][20] He also narrated a feature documentary film about the Lama entitled Dalai Lama Renaissance Ford at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Ford filmed the medical drama Extraordinary Measures[22] film also starred Brendan Fraser and Alan Ruck. Also in 2010, he co-starred in the film Patrick Wilson, Rachel McAdams He has expressed interest in returning to the In July 2011, Ford starred alongside Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde Ford portrays Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde, a character who rules the and executive producer Steven Spielberg did not want to have the worried that it would remind audiences of the Indiana Jones man."[27] To promote the film, Ford made his first appearance at the onstage in handcuffs by two security guards, giving the audience the impression that he was being dragged to Comic- Con against his will. However, the actor's arrival involuntarily referred to an the presentation of the film, after which the alleged assailant was taken away in handcuffs. standing ovation as he joined his co-stars, and, apparently surprised by the warm welcome, told the audience, "I just wanted to make a living as an actor. I didn't know about this." In 2011, Ford starred in Japanese commercials advertising the video game PlayStation 3.

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