Harrison Ford

At 82 years old, Harrison Ford has this physical status:

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor, aviator, and environmental activist.

Han Solo played in the original trilogy (1977–1983) of the Star Wars film franchise, and he would reprise his role in the first film in the sequel trilogy.

Ford is also known for his portrayal of the title character in the Indiana Jones action-adventure film series and as Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (1994) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), in addition to appearing Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Ford's career spanned six decades and includes appearances in numerous highly acclaimed Hollywood films, as well as film critic Roger Ebert's description of him as "the great modern movie everyman."

Some of his best films include the Best Picture-nominated romantic thriller Witness (1979), the philosophical thriller The Fugitive (1990), the legal thriller Uninhibited (1990), and the biographical sports drama 42 (2013).

Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, including American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1974), Apocalypse Now (1980), Blade Runner (1980), and Blade Runner (1982), making Ford the fourth highest-grossing U.S. domestic box-office actor of all time.

Early life

Harrison Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on July 13, 1942, to former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and former television presenter and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Terence, his younger brother, was born in 1945. Their father was a Catholic of German and Irish descent, while their mother, An Ashkenazi Jew, was emigrants from Minsk, Belarus, then into the Russian Empire. Ford jokingly replied "Democrat" when asked which faith he and his brother were raised and then more insistent that they were raised to be "liberals of every stripe." When asked what effect his Jewish and Irish Catholic ancestry had on him, he replied, "I've always felt Irish." As an actor, "I've always felt Jewish."

He was a Boy Scout, earning the second highest rank in Life Scouting, earning the second highest rank. He served as a mentor for the Reptile Study merit badge at Napowan Adventure Base Scout Camp. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to portray the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Ford graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was the first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Ford, a self-described "late bloomer," took a drama class in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness and became fascinated with acting.

Personal life

Ford has been married three times, and has four biological children and one adopted child. He was first married to Mary Marquardt from 1964 to 1980, before they divorced in 1979. Benjamin, the cook and restaurateur, was born 1966, and clothier Willard (born 1969). Live in Los Angeles and Terminal 5: Benjamin co-owns Ford's Filling Station, a gastropub with locations throughout Los Angeles. Willard, the owner of Strong Sports Gym, was co-owner of the Kim Sing Theater and owner of the Ludwig Clothing company.

Melissa Mathison, who lived in March 1983 to their divorce in 2000, was the subject of Ford's second marriage from March 1983 to 2004. They had a son, actor and singer Malcolm (born 1987), as well as a daughter, actress Georgia (born 1990). Mathison died in 2015.

After meeting at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards, Ford began dating actress Calista Flockhart. They are the parents of Liam (born 2001), the son she adopted before meeting Ford. In 2009, he proposed to Flockhart over Valentine's Day weekend. They married in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Ford was filming Cowboys & Aliens.

Ford and Flockhart live on a 320-acre (3.2-square-kilometer) ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, which he has lived on since the 1980s and much of which has been donated as a nature reserve. They maintain a base in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood. He is one of Hollywood's most well-known actors, but he is guarded for a substantial portion of his personal life. Carrie Fisher, his co-star in her 2016 autobiography The Princess Diarist, said she and Ford had a three-month affair in 1976 during the filming of Star Wars.

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Career

Ford in 1964, after a season of summer stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin, migrated to Los Angeles to apply for a career in radio voice-overs. He didn't get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a $150-per-week contract with Columbia Pictures' new talent program, where he played bit parts in films. In Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), his first known role was as an uncredited one. There is no evidence of his non-speaking (or "extra") roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the job list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky because he appeared as a bellboy in the film. Tokovsky told actor Tony Curtis that he treated a bag of groceries like a movie actor; Ford believed his job was to be like a bellboy.

Luv (1967), but he was also uncredited. In the 1967 Western film A Time for Killing, starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens, he was finally recognized as "Harrison J. Ford," but "J" did not stand for anything because he had no middle name. It was introduced to avoid confusion with Harrison Ford, a silent film actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1957, who died in 1957. Ford later said he was unaware of the presence of the former actor before he stumbled upon a celebrity on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ford soon dropped "J" and began working at Universal Studios, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu. He appeared in the western Journey to Shiloh (1968) and was uncredited, non-speaking actor in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film Zabriskie Point as a detained student protester. Jacques Demy, a French filmmaker, selected Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but Columbia Pictures' head Tom Ford thought Ford had "no future" in the film industry and told Demy that he should find a more experienced actor. Gary Lockwood was given the role as a result of the incident. Later, Ford said that the event had nevertheless been a positive one because Demy was the first person to have such faith in him.

Ford became a self-taught carpenter to help his then-wife and two young children who were unsatisfied with his father's roles. This time, writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, who lived on the beach in Malibu, were among the clients. In the film Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Both he and his wife became writers' acquaintances. Fred Roos, a casting director and fledgling producer, championed the young Ford and gained him an audition with George Lucas for the role of Bob Falfa, which Ford went on to do in American Graffiti (1973). Ford's friendship with Lucas had a major influence on his career later on. After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, Ford hired Ford to expand his staff and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979); in the latter film, Ford played an army officer named "G. Lucas."

Throughout the 1970s, Ford's Heroes (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), and Hanover Street (1979) were among the notable films. In the buddy-comedy western The Frisco Kid (1979), Ford co-starred Gene Wilder (1979), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold. His previous work in American Graffiti earned him his first film role when Lucas was hired by Lucas to read lines for actors auditioning for parts in Lucas' forthcoming epic space-opera film Star Wars (1977). Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's appearance during these series, which also portrayed him as Han Solo. Star Wars became one of the most popular and groundbreaking films of all time, earning Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, both widespread praise. He appeared in the Star Wars sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). "That would have brought the whole film to a stop," Ford demanded Lucas to kill Han Solo at the end of Return of the Jedi, but Lucas refused.

Ford's reputation as a leading actor was solidified with the formation of Thunderbolt (1981), an action-adventure team with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg that culminated in Ford's second franchise role as the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The film, like Star Wars, was hugely popular, and became the year's highest-grossing film. Spielberg was keen on casting Ford from the start, but Lucas was not familiar with the actor's American Graffiti and Star Wars. After Tom Selleck was unwilling to comprehend, Lucas eventually relented. Ford went on to reprise his role in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), as well as the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Ford herniated a disc in his back during the filming of Temple of Doom in London in June 1983. The 40-year-old actor was forced to fly back to Los Angeles for surgery and returned six weeks later.

In Ridley Scott's dystopian science-fiction film Blade Runner (1982), following his leading-man role as Indiana Jones, he appeared Rick Deckard. Ford had a rough time with the film, particularly when compared to his experience with the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films. "It was a long slog," he told Vanity Fair. I didn't find it that physically difficult, but I think it was mentally demanding." Ford and Scott had differing opinions on the appearance of their characters, Deckard, which persists decades later. Blade Runner, although not immediately a success, went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most popular films. Ford also demonstrated his versatility in films like Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and Frantic (1988), as well as Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver in the comedy-drama Working Girl (1988). Witness and the Mosquito Coast in particular allowed Ford to discover his potential as a dramatic actor, and both performances were highly praised. Later, Ford recalled that working with director Peter Weir on both Witness and The Mosquito Coast were two of his best experiences of his career.

Ford became the second actor to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on Tom Clancy's literary character. Anne Archer and James Earl Jones co-starred. Alec Baldwin, who had appeared in The Hunt for Red October (1990), was replaced by Ford. Baldwin, who said he wanted to reprise his position, later revealed that Paramount had negotiated behind him. Ford has appeared in several action-based thrillers over the decade, including critically acclaimed The Fugitive (1993), The Devil's Own (191997), and Air Force One (1997). Ford received some of his best reviews of his career, including Roger Ebert who said, "Ford is once more the great modern movie everyman." Nothing he does as an actor does seem to be for spectacle, and instead of trying to figure out the drama in meaningless acting flourishes, he does so intentionally plays down, lies low, and goes on with business rather than trying to cash in this melodramatic content. He appeared in Presumed Innocent (1990) and Regarding Henry (1991) as well as another romantic role in Sabrina (1995), a reversion of a classic 1954 film with the same name.

During this period, Ford developed working links with many well-known directors, including Peter Weir, Alan J. Pakula, Phillip Noyce, Phillip Noyce, and Sydney Pollack, who all worked with them twice. This was Ford's most lucrative period in the company's history. He appeared in fourteen films from 1977 to 1997, 12 of which were in the top ten in the yearly domestic box office rankings, with some of which reached the top ten. Six of the films he appeared in during this time were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Apocalypse Now, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Witness, Working Girl, and The Fugitive were among other accolades, including Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, and The Fugitive.

Ford began to appear in many critically criticized and/or commercially dissatisfied films that failed to reach his earlier successes, including Six Days, Seven Nights (1999), Firewall (2006), and Extraordinary Measures (2010). What Lies Beneath (2000), which earned over $155 million in the United States and $291 million worldwide, was one of the few notable exceptions. On K-19: The Widowmaker and Extraordinary Measures were both based on true events.

Ford passed up the opportunity to appear in the thriller Syriana in 2004, before claiming that "I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the story and I suspect I made a mistake." George Clooney, who received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work, was given the role. Ford had already been in another Stephen Gaghan-written film, one of Robert Wakefield in Traffic, which eventually went to Michael Douglas.

Ford enjoyed success with the debut of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first Indiana Jones film in nineteen years and another with Lucas and Spielberg in 2008. The film received generally favorable feedback and was the second highest-grossing film in the country in 2008. "If it didn't take another 20 years to digest," Ford later stated that he would like to appear in another sequel.

Crossing Over, directed by Wayne Kramer, was another 2008 film. Ford portrays himself in the film as an ICE/Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent, assassinated by Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta. He also narrated a full documentary film about the Dalai Lama's reign, the Dalai Lama Renaissance. In 2009 in Portland, Oregon, Ford produced Extraordinary Measures, a medical drama. Brendan Fraser and Alan Ruck appeared in the film, which was released on January 22, 2010. He appeared alongside Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, and Patrick Wilson in the film Morning Glory in 2010. Despite being a disappointment at the box office, Ford's results were widely welcomed by critics, some of whom thought it was his best role in years. In the science-fiction/western hybrid film Cowboys & Aliens, Ford starred Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde in July 2011. Ford performed at the San Diego Comic-Con International, and the audience was clearly taken by the warm reception. "I just wanted to make a living as an actor." "I had no idea about this." In 2011, Ford appeared in Japanese commercials promoting the video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception for the PlayStation 3.

Ford began to play more diverse supporting roles in 2013. Ford co-starred in the corporate espionage drama Paranoia with Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman, who had previously worked with Air Force One, and Ender's Game, 42: The Legend Continues. Many commentators praised Branch Rickey's 42 appearance in 42, and Ford was named the best supporting actor for the Satellite Awards. He appeared in The Expendables 3 and the documentary Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project in 2014. Ford co-starred Blake Lively in the romantic drama The Age of Adaline, which has received glowing reviews.

Han Solo appeared in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which was equally popular as its predecessors. When a hydraulic door fell on a man's ankle, Ford suffered what was believed to be a fractured ankle, during filming on June 11, 2014. He was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England, for medical care. Ben Ford's son gave specifics about his father's injury, saying that his ankle will probably need a plate and screws and that filming could be changed slightly with the crew having to shoot Ford from the waist up for a short time until he recovered. Ford returned to filming in mid-August after a two-month layoff as he recovered from his injury. Ford's character was killed off in The Force Awakens, but a casting call later revealed that Ford would return in some capacity as Solo in Episode VIII. Ford did not reprise his role in the film after all, as the cast for Episode VIII was confirmed in February 2016. When Ford was asked if his character would return in "some way," he replied, "Anything is possible in space." In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, he made an uncredited appearance as a vision.

Ford will reprise his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 on February 26, 2015. Since its release in October 2017, critics were raving about the film and Ford's performances. IGN's Scott Collura said it was a "deep, rich, rich movie full of great sci-fi ideas" and Ford's presence, "a quiet, wretched interpretation of Deckard and what he's been through in the past three decades." The film grossed $259.3 million worldwide, much less than the estimated $400 million that the film needed in order to break even. In 2019, Ford's first voice role in an animated film as a hound named Rooster in The Secret Life of Pets 2 was released. Ford headlined a big-budget version of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, playing prospector John Thornton with filming for a fifth Indiana Jones film postponed for a year. The film was released in February 2020 to a mixed critical reception, but its theatrical debut was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the film industry.

In the 2022 films Captain America: New World Order and Thunderbolts, Ford was cast as Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, replacing the late actor William Hurt, who appeared in previous MCU films.

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