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Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
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entertainment · American actor (1916–2006) · film actor · military officer · character actor · television actor · actor · military personnel · also Glenn Ford, Gwyllyn Ford, Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, Ford, Glenn, Ford
Born 1 May 1916 · Died 30 August 2006 · Q212048
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2026· 3 entries
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2024· 1 entry
Published video “Dan Cummins Ford Lincoln | Near Lexington”.
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2019· 1 entry
Published video “2019 Lincoln Navigator Reserve - Exterior Lighting”.
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2014· 1 entry
Published video “Microsoft SYNC Voice Commands Quick Tutorial”.
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2013· 1 entry
Was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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2011· 1 entry
According to his son Peter Ford's book Glenn Ford: A Life (2011), Ford had affairs with 146 actresses, all of which were documented in his personal diaries, including a 40-year, intermittent affair with Rita Hayworth that began during the filming of Gilda in 1945.
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2006· 1 entry
Died 2006-08-30.
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1991· 2 entries
At age 75 with heart and circulatory problems
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Ford agreed to star in the cable network series African Skies
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (1987).
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Received the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and in 1992, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal for his actions in World War II
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1981· 1 entry
Ford costarred with Melissa Sue Anderson in the slasher film Happy Birthday to Me
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1978· 3 entries
Ford was host, presenter, and narrator of the disaster documentary series When Havoc Struck for the Mobil Showcase Network
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Was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Ford had a supporting role in Superman as Clark Kent's adoptive father Jonathan Kent
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1976· 1 entry
Ford played Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance in the epic Midway alongside Henry Fonda, who portrayed Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Charlton Heston, who played the fictional captain Matt Garth
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1971· 1 entry
Ford signed with CBS to star in his first television series, a half-hour comedy/drama titled The Glenn Ford Show
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1968· 1 entry
After visiting South Vietnam in 1967 for a month's tour of duty as a location scout for combat scenes in a training film entitled Global Marine
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1962· 1 entry
And a fling with Joan Crawford in the early 1940s
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1961· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Pocketful of Miracles (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Ford moved to a home next to Hayworth's residence in Beverly Hills; they continued their relationship until the early 1980s
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1959· 1 entry
On grounds of adultery and mental cruelty
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1958· 1 entry
Ford won the Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance for his role in Don't Go Near the Water
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1957· 1 entry
1958, and 1962, Ford won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, a remake of Lady for a Day (1933) that Ford helped produce
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1956· 1 entry
1958, and 1959, topping the list in 1958
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1950· 1 entry
Ford played the title role in The Adventures of Christopher London, created by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by William N
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1946· 2 entries
Crowther did not yet have the phrase with which Gilda would soon be associated, a term that French critics had not even invented in 1946: film noir
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Starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda
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1945· 1 entry
For anyone who had been on active duty since December 1941
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1941· 1 entry
"draws more substance and appealing simplicity from his role of the boy than anyone else in the cast
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1922· 1 entry
When Ford was aged six, the family emigrated southwest across the border into the United States, first to Venice, California, and then to Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles; his father became a motorman on a tram/streetc
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1916· 2 entries
In Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada the son of Hannah Wood (née Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway
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Born 1916-05-01.
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