Glenn Ford
Born: 1916-05-01 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died: 2006-08-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era, with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances, and appeared in films such as Glinda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), and Superman (1978).
Filmography
1991
- Raw Nerve as Captain Gavin
- Final Verdict as Rev. Rogers
1990
1989
- Casablanca Express as Major Gen. Williams
- William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
- Border Shootout as Sheriff Danaher
1986
- My Town as Lucas Wheeler
1982
1981
- Happy Birthday to Me as Dr. David Faraday
- Great White Death as Narrator
1980
- Superman II as Jonathan Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Virus as President Richardson
1979
- The Visitor as Det. Jake Durham
- The Gift as Billy Devlin
- Beggarman, Thief as David Donnelly
- Day of the Assassin as Christakis
- The Sacketts as Tom Sunday
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self - Host
- The Hollywood Clowns as Narrator (voice)
1978
- Superman as Pa Kent
- Police Story: No Margin for Error as Deputy Chief Walter Hayes
- Evening in Byzantium as Jesse Craig
1977
- The 3,000 Mile Chase as Paul Dvorak / Leonard Staveck
1976
- Midway as Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
- Once an Eagle as George Caldwell
1975
- Long Way Home as Rev. Tom Holvak
- The Family Holvak
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- The Greatest Gift as Rev. Holvak
- The Disappearance of Flight 412 as Colonel Pete Moore
- Punch and Jody as Peter 'Punch' Travers
1973
- Police Story
- Jarrett as Sam Jarrett
- Santee as Santee
1972
- The Marshal of Madrid as Sam Cade
- Sam Cade as Sam Cade
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Cade's County as Sheriff Sam Cade
- Once Upon a Wheel as Self
1970
- The Brotherhood of the Bell as Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson
1969
- Smith! as Smith
- Heaven with a Gun as Jim Killan
1968
- Day of the Evil Gun as Lorn Warfield
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show as Self (uncredited)
1967
- A Time for Killing as Tom Wolcott
- The Last Challenge as Marshal Dan Blaine
1966
- Rage as Reuben
- Is Paris Burning? as Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
1965
- The Dean Martin Show
- Dear Heart as Harry Mork
- The Money Trap as Joe Baron
- The Rounders as Ben Jones
1964
- Fate Is the Hunter as Sam McBane
- Advance to the Rear as Capt. Jared Heath
1963
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Tom Corbett
- Love Is a Ball as John Lathrop Davis
- Hollywood and the Stars as Self (archive footage)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Julio Desnoyers
- Experiment in Terror as John Ripley
1961
- Pocketful of Miracles as Dave 'The Dude' Conway
- The Dick Powell Show as Self - Guest Host
- Cry for Happy as Harue
1960
- The Gazebo as Elliott Nash
- Cimarron as Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat
1959
- It Started with a Kiss as Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick
1958
- Cowboy as Tom Reese
- Torpedo Run as Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle
- The Sheepman as Jason Sweet
- Imitation General as MSgt. Murphy Savage
1957
- 3:10 to Yuma as Ben Wade
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Captain Fisby
- The Day Called X as Narrator
- Don't Go Near the Water as Lt. J.G. Max Siegel
1956
- Jubal as Jubal Troop
- Ransom! as David G. 'Dave' Stannard
- The Fastest Gun Alive as George Temple / George Kelby, Jr.
- Operation Teahouse as Self
1955
- The Americano as Sam Dent
- Interrupted Melody as Dr. Thomas King
- Trial as David Blake
- Blackboard Jungle as Richard Dadier
- The Violent Men as John Parrish
- MGM Parade as Dave Stannard in 'Ransom!' (archive footage)
- Have Faith in Our Children as Himself
1954
- Human Desire as Jeff Warren
- City Story as Narrator
1953
- The Big Heat as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
- Time Bomb as Peter Lyncort
- The Man from the Alamo as John Stroud
- Plunder of the Sun as Al Colby
- Appointment in Honduras as Jim Corbett
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Young Man with Ideas as Maxwell Webster
- The Green Glove as Michael 'Mike' Blake
- Affair in Trinidad as Steve Emery
1951
- The Secret of Convict Lake as Jim Canfield
- Follow the Sun as Ben Hogan
- The Redhead and The Cowboy as Gil Kyle
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Convicted as Joe Hufford
- The White Tower as Martin Ordway
- The Flying Missile as William A. Talbot
1949
- Mr. Soft Touch as Joe Miracle
- Lust for Gold as Jacob 'Dutch' Walz
- The Undercover Man as Frank Warren
- The Doctor and the Girl as Dr. Michael Corday
1948
- The Return of October as Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr.
- The Mating of Millie as Doug Andrews
- The Man from Colorado as Col. Owen Devereaux
- The Loves of Carmen as Don José
1947
- Framed as Mike Lambert
1946
- Gilda as Johnny Farrell
- Gallant Journey as John J. Montgomery
- A Stolen Life as Bill Emerson
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1943
- Guadalcanal Diary as Marine Extra (uncredited)
- The Desperadoes as Cheyenne Rogers
- Destroyer as Mickey Donohue
- Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform as Himself
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- The Adventures of Martin Eden as Martin Eden
- Flight Lieutenant as Danny Doyle
1941
- Texas as Tod Ramsey
- So Ends Our Night as Ludwig Kern
- Go West, Young Lady as Tex Miller
1940
- The Lady in Question as Pierre Morestan
- Men Without Souls as Johnny Adams
- Convicted Woman as Jim Brent (Reporter)
- Babies for Sale as Steve Burton / Oscar Hanson
- Blondie Plays Cupid as Charlie
1939
- My Son Is Guilty as Barney
- Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as Joe Riley