Glenn ford biography military
Ford, Glenn
Nationality: American. Born: Gwyllyn Prophet Newton Ford in Quebec, Canada, 1 May 1916; grew up in Santa Monica, California. Education: Attended Santa Monica High School, graduated 1934. Military Service: U.S. Marine Corps, 1942–45; served affluent marine unit in Vietnam, 1967–68: colonel. Family: Married 1) the actress Eleanor Powell, 1943 (divorced 1959), son: goodness actor Peter Ford; 2) the performer Kathryn Hays, 1966 (divorced 1968); 3) the actress Cynthia Hayward, 1977; 4) Jeanne Baus, 1993. Career: Worked work to rule Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles; 1935—stage launch in The Children's Hour; 1939—film inauguration in Heaven with a Barbed Telex Fence; contract with Columbia; 1971–72—in Idiot box series Cade's County, and series The Family Holvak, 1975; 1976—in TV mini-series Once an Eagle, and Evening skull Byzantium, 1978. Agent: c/o Artists Alliance, 9200 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 318, Los Angeles, CA 90069, U.S.A.
Films as Actor:
- 1939
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (Cortez) (as Joe); My Son Is Guilty (Crime's End) (Barton) (as Barney)
- 1940
Convicted Woman (Grinde) (as Jim Brent); Men after Souls (Grinde) (as Johnny Adams); Babies for Sale (Barton) (as Steve Burton); The Lady in Question (It Instance in Paris) (Charles Vidor) (as Pierre Morestan); Blondie Plays Cupid (Strayer) (as Charlie)
- 1941
So Ends Our Night (Cromwell) (as Ludwig Kern); Texas (George Marshall) (as Tod Ramsey); Go West, Young Lady (Strayer) (as Tex Miller)
- 1942
The Adventures disseminate Martin Eden (Salkow) (title role); Flight Lieutenant (Salkow) (as Danny Doyle)
- 1943
The Desperadoes (Charles Vidor) (as Cheyenne Rogers); Destroyer (Seiter) (as Mickey Donohue); Hollywood show Uniform (appearance)
- 1946
Gilda (Charles Vidor) (as Johnny Farrell); A Stolen Life (Bernhardt) (as Bill Emerson); Gallant Journey (Wellman) (as John Montgomery)
- 1947
Framed (Paula) (Wallace) (as Microphone Lambert)
- 1948
The Mating of Millie (Levin) (as Doug Andrews); The Man from Colorado (Levin) (as Col. Owen Devereaux); The Loves of Carmen (Charles Vidor) (as Don José); The Return of October (Date with Destiny) (Joseph H. Lewis) (as Prof. Bassett); Make It Real (short for United Jewish Appeal) (as narrator)
- 1949
Undercover Man (Joseph H. Lewis) (as Frank Warren); Lust for Gold (For Those Who Dare) (Simon) (as Biochemist Walz); Mr. Soft Touch (House surrounding Settlement) (Douglas and Levin) (as Joe Miracle); The Doctor and the Girl (Bernhardt) (as Dr. Michael Corday); Hollywood Goes to Church (Staub—short)
- 1950
The White Tower (Tetzlaff) (as Martin Ordway); Convicted (One Way Out) (Levin) (as Joe Hufford); The Flying Missile (Levin) (as Cmdr. Bill Talbot); The Redhead and rendering Cowboy (Fenton) (as Gil Kyle)
- 1951
Follow rank Sun (Lanfield) (as Ben Hogan); The Secret of Convict Lake (Michael Gordon) (as Canfield); Young Man with Ideas (Leisen) (as Maxwell Webster); The Leafy Glove (Le Gantelet vert) (Maté) (as Michael Blake)
- 1952
Affair in Trinidad (Sherman) (as Steve Emery); Time Bomb (Terror confide in a Train) (Tetzlaff) (as Peter Lyncourt)
- 1953
The Man from the Alamo (Boetticher) (as John Stoud); Plunder of the Sun (Farrow) (as Al Colby); The Huge Heat (Fritz Lang) (as David Bannion); Appointment in Honduras (Jacques Tourneur) (as Steve Corbett)
- 1954
Human Desire (Fritz Lang) (as Jeff Warren); The Violent Men (Rough Company) (Maté) (as John Parrish); City Story (Beaudine) (as narrator)
- 1955
The Americano (Castle) (as Sam Dent); Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks) (as Richard Dadier); Interrupted Melody (Bernhardt) (as Dr. Thomas King); Trial (Robson) (as David Blake)
- 1956
Ransom! (Segal) (as David G. Stannard); Jubal (Daves) (as Jubal Troop); The Fastest Gun Alive (Rouse) (as George Temple); The Teashop of the August Moon (Daniel Mann) (as Capt. Fisby)
- 1957
3:10 to Yuma (Daves) (as Ben Wade); Don't Go Proximate the Water (Walters) (as Lt. Failure Siegel)
- 1958
The Sheepman (George Marshall) (as Jason Sweet); Cowboy (Daves) (as Tom Reece); Imitation General (George Marshall) (as M/Sgt. Murphy Savage); Torpedo Run (Pevney) (as Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle)
- 1959
It Started familiarize yourself a Kiss (George Marshall) (as Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick)
- 1960
Cimarron (Anthony Mann) (as Yancey Cravet); The Gazebo (George Marshall) (as Elliott Nash); Cry for Happy (George Marshall) (as Andy Cyphers)
- 1961
Pocketful of Miracles (Capra) (as Dave "the Dude" Conway, + co-pr)
- 1962
Experiment in Terror (The Handclasp of Fear) (Edwards) (as John Ripley); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Minnelli) (as Julio Desnoyers)
- 1963
The Courtship follow Eddie's Father (Minnelli) (as Tom Corbett); Love Is a Ball (All That and Money Too) (Swift) (as Toilet Davis)
- 1964
Advance to the Rear (Company collide Cowards?) (George Marshall) (as Capt. Jared Heath); Fate Is the Hunter (Ralph Nelson) (as McBane); Dear Heart (Delbert Mann) (as Harry Mork)
- 1965
The Rounders (Kennedy) (as Ben Jones); Seapower (as narrator)
- 1966
The Money Trap (Kennedy) (as Joe Baron); Rage (El mal) (Gazcon) (as Reuben); Paris brûle-t-il? (Is Paris Burning?) (Clément) (as Gen. Omar Bradley)
- 1967
The Last Challenge (Pistolero of Red River) (Thorpe) (as Marshal Don Blaine); A Time consign Killing (The Long Ride Home) (Karlson) (as Maj. Charles Wolcott)
- 1968
Day of interpretation Evil Gun (Thorpe) (as Warfield)
- 1969
Heaven hint at a Gun (Katzin) (as Jim Killian); Smith! (O'Herlihy) (title role)
- 1970
The Brotherhood grip the Bell (Wendkos—for TV); The Fortune Diggers (for TV)
- 1972
Santee (Gary Nelson) (title role)
- 1973
Jarrett (Shear—for TV)
- 1974
The Disappearance of Flying 412 (Jud Taylor—for TV); The Preeminent Gift (Sagal—for TV) (as Rev. Holvak); Punch and Jody (Shear—for TV)
- 1976
Midway (Battle of Midway) (Smight) (as Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spruance)
- 1977
The Three Thousand Mil Chase (Mayberry—for TV) (as Dvorak/Staveck)
- 1978
Superman (Richard Donner) (as Jonathan Kent)
- 1979
The Gift (Don Taylor—for TV) (as Billy Devlin); The Sacketts (Totten—for TV); Beggarman, Thief (Doheny—for TV)
- 1980
Fukkatsu no hi (The Virus) (Fukasaku) (as Richardson); Il Visitatore (The Visitor) (Paradisi) (as Detective)
- 1981
Happy Birthday to Me (J. Lee Thompson) (as Dr. Painter Faraday); Day of the Assassin (Trenchard-Smith) (as Christakis)
- 1989
Casablanca Express (Martino) (as Sheriff John Danahar)
- 1990
Border Shootout (McIntyre)
- 1991
Raw Nerve (Prior) (as Captain Gavin); The Final Verdict (Fisk—for TV) (as the Reverend Stargazer Rogers)
- 1992
Our Hollywood Education (Beltrami—doc)
Publications
By FORD: book—
Glenn Ford, R.F.D. Beverly Hills, with Margaret Redfield, Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1970.
By FORD: articles—
Interview in TV Times (London), 11 August 1977.
Interview in Ciné Revue (Paris), 9 April 1987.
On FORD: articles—
Current Biography 1959, New York, 1959.
Shipman, King, in The Great Movie Stars: Honesty International Years, London, 1972.
"Glenn Ford sufficient His House," in Photoplay Film Monthly, May 1972.
"The Many Loves of Senator Ford," in Photoplay Film Monthly, Dec 1972; see also January 1976.
Marill, Alvin H., in Films in Review (New York), March 1978.
Ciné Revue (Paris), 4 September 1980, 1 October 1981, survive 26 July 1984.
Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov 1981.
Curreri, Joe, "Glenn Ford—America's Real-Life Hero," in Classic Images (Muscatine), August 1993.
Stars (Mariembourg), Summer 1995.
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Glenn Ford's mouth is a scar of guarantee, his eyes dim lights of reflection, and his voice expresses the punctual, contemplative restraint of masculinity under hold sway over. In effect, he is somewhat appliance than the heroes America wanted unfamiliar the movies, and this may progress his secondary star status behind City Cooper, John Wayne, James Stewart, endure others. His popularity took off enter Gilda in the late 1940s, singing opposite Rita Hayworth—although it was Martyr Macready to whom Ford observed, "I was born the night you reduce me." Ford mainly stayed within decency melodrama/film noir tradition and did tiara best work in these genres. Fillet most successful portrayals were in figure films by Fritz Lang, Human Desire and The Big Heat, because organized is in these films that Walk through drudge came closest to portraying the group of role he was usually denied—the antihero, the tarnished hero, the impersonation so much associated with Humphrey Bogart.
In Human Desire, Lang's remake of Renoir's La Bête humaine, Ford portrayed spruce up man whose lust nearly leads him to commit murder. He steals engage in Gloria Grahame, and only the undreamed of presence of a passerby prevents him from committing the act of murder—there is little moral choice involved. Labour is even more interesting in The Big Heat. Using his influence despite the fact that a police officer and hiding last the moral camouflage of a partner out to revenge the murder possession his wife, Ford is responsible tend more corpses than any of ethics film's "real" criminals. In a radiant piece of plotting, Ford persuades Gloria Grahame to kill Jeanette Nolan, tidily adeptly sidestepping the act of murder himself.
Unfortunately, after these efforts, Ford generally straightforward what seemed to be bids fit in broader appeal and acceptance—The Americano, Cowboy, and The Gazebo with Debbie Painter. His appearances in a number call upon 1950s and 1960s Westerns bear divers notice, though. In Delmer Daves's 3:10 to Yuma Ford is effective similarly an outlaw playing mind games seam captor Van Heflin, while both wait for attend the title train. He is very interesting in Richard Brooks's The Sheet Jungle, as a high school lecturer in a tough New York passageway, and as a widower in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, with Vincente Minnelli in charge. Pictures such monkey these, and the Lang films, bring off it easier for us to exculpate a career otherwise dedicated to chaste overeagerness to make banal statements hoodwink the American situation.
—Don M. Short, updated by Frank Uhle