Glenn Ford
Born: 1916-05-01 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died: 2006-08-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
Glenn Ford (born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton 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 Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), and Superman (1978).
Filmography
2001
- The Making of Midway as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Raw Nerve as Captain Gavin
- Final Verdict as Rev. Rogers
1990
1989
- Border Shootout as Sheriff Danaher
- Casablanca Express as Major Gen. Williams
- William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
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 Sacketts as Tom Sunday
- Beggarman, Thief as David Donnelly
- The Visitor as Det. Jake Durham
- Day of the Assassin as Christakis
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self - Host
- The Gift as Billy Devlin
- The Hollywood Clowns as Narrator (voice)
1978
- Superman as Pa Kent
- Evening in Byzantium as Jesse Craig
- Police Story: No Margin for Error as Deputy Chief Walter Hayes
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
- The Family Holvak
- Long Way Home as Rev. Tom Holvak
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Punch and Jody as Peter 'Punch' Travers
- The Disappearance of Flight 412 as Colonel Pete Moore
- The Greatest Gift as Rev. Holvak
1973
- Police Story
- Santee as Santee
- Jarrett as Sam Jarrett
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
- Heaven with a Gun as Jim Killan
- Smith! as Smith
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
- Hollywood Squares as Self - Center Square
- Is Paris Burning? as Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
- Rage as Reuben
1965
- The Dean Martin Show
- The Rounders as Ben Jones
- The Money Trap as Joe Baron
- Dear Heart as Harry Mork
1964
- Fate Is the Hunter as Sam McBane
- Advance to the Rear as Capt. Jared Heath
1963
- Hollywood and the Stars as Self (archive footage)
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Tom Corbett
- Love is a Ball as John Lathrop Davis
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
- The Dick Powell Show as Self - Guest Host
- Pocketful of Miracles as Dave 'The Dude' Conway
- Cry for Happy as Andy Cyphers
1960
- Cimarron as Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat
1959
- The Gazebo as Elliott Nash
- It Started with a Kiss as Joe Fitzpatrick
1958
- Cowboy as Tom Reese
- The Sheepman as Jason Sweet
- Torpedo Run as Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle
- Imitation General as MSgt. Murphy Savage
1957
- 3:10 to Yuma as Ben Wade
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Captain Fisby
- Don't Go Near the Water as Lt. J.G. Max Siegel
- The Day Called X as Narrator
1956
- Jubal as Jubal Troop
- The Fastest Gun Alive as George Temple / George Kelby, Jr.
- Ransom! as David G. 'Dave' Stannard
- Operation Teahouse as Self
1955
- MGM Parade as Dave Stannard in 'Ransom!' (archive footage)
- Blackboard Jungle as Richard Dadier
- The Violent Men as John Parrish
- Trial as David Blake
- The Americano as Sam Dent
- Interrupted Melody as Dr. Thomas King
- 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
- The Man from the Alamo as John Stroud
- Plunder of the Sun as Al Colby
- Appointment in Honduras as Jim Corbett
- Time Bomb as Peter Lyncort
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Affair in Trinidad as Steve Emery
- Young Man with Ideas as Maxwell Webster
- The Green Glove as Michael 'Mike' Blake
1951
- The Redhead and the Cowboy as Gil Kyle
- The Secret of Convict Lake as Jim Canfield
- Follow the Sun as Ben Hogan
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Convicted as Joe Hufford
- The Flying Missile as William A. Talbot
- The White Tower as Martin Ordway
1949
- The Undercover Man as Frank Warren
- Lust for Gold as Jacob 'Dutch' Walz
- Mr. Soft Touch as Joe Miracle
- The Doctor and the Girl as Dr. Michael Corday
1948
- The Man from Colorado as Col. Owen Devereaux
- The Mating of Millie as Doug Andrews
- The Loves of Carmen as Don José
- The Return of October as Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr.
1947
- Framed as Mike Lambert
1946
- Gilda as Johnny Farrell
- A Stolen Life as Bill Emerson
- Gallant Journey as John J. Montgomery
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1943
- Guadalcanal Diary as Marine Extra (uncredited)
- The Desperadoes as Cheyenne Rogers
- Show-Business at War as Self
- Destroyer as Mickey Donohue
- Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform as Himself
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
- Men Without Souls as Johnny Adams
- Babies for Sale as Steve Burton / Oscar Hanson
- The Lady in Question as Pierre Morestan
- Convicted Woman as Jim Brent (Reporter)
- Blondie Plays Cupid as Charlie
1939
- My Son Is Guilty as Barney
- Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as Joe Riley