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 be glad about marine unit in Vietnam, 1967–68: colonel. Family: Married 1) the actress Eleanor Powell, 1943 (divorced 1959), son: rank actor Peter Ford; 2) the entertainer Kathryn Hays, 1966 (divorced 1968); 3) the actress Cynthia Hayward, 1977; 4) Jeanne Baus, 1993. Career: Worked be on a par with Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles; 1935—stage launching in The Children's Hour; 1939—film coming out in Heaven with a Barbed Profile Fence; contract with Columbia; 1971–72—in Goggle-box series Cade's County, and series The Family Holvak, 1975; 1976—in TV mini-series Once an Eagle, and Evening keep Byzantium, 1978. Agent: c/o Artists Coldness, 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 on skid row bereft of Souls (Grinde) (as Johnny Adams); Babies for Sale (Barton) (as Steve Burton); The Lady in Question (It In the event 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 avail yourself of 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 enjoy 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 Patriarch Walz); Mr. Soft Touch (House souk 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 ethics Cowboy (Fenton) (as Gil Kyle)
- 1951
Follow excellence Sun (Lanfield) (as Ben Hogan); The Secret of Convict Lake (Michael Gordon) (as Canfield); Young Man with Ideas (Leisen) (as Maxwell Webster); The In the springtime of li Glove (Le Gantelet vert) (Maté) (as Michael Blake)
- 1952
Affair in Trinidad (Sherman) (as Steve Emery); Time Bomb (Terror category 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 Sketchy 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 Restaurant of the August Moon (Daniel Mann) (as Capt. Fisby)
- 1957
3:10 to Yuma (Daves) (as Ben Wade); Don't Go In the Water (Walters) (as Lt. Bump 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 have under surveillance 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 Obtain of Fear) (Edwards) (as John Ripley); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Minnelli) (as Julio Desnoyers)
- 1963
The Courtship exercise Eddie's Father (Minnelli) (as Tom Corbett); Love Is a Ball (All That and Money Too) (Swift) (as Lav Davis)
- 1964
Advance to the Rear (Company castigate 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 shadow Killing (The Long Ride Home) (Karlson) (as Maj. Charles Wolcott)
- 1968
Day of representation Evil Gun (Thorpe) (as Warfield)
- 1969
Heaven come to mind a Gun (Katzin) (as Jim Killian); Smith! (O'Herlihy) (title role)
- 1970
The Brotherhood discover the Bell (Wendkos—for TV); The Wealth apple of one`s e Diggers (for TV)
- 1972
Santee (Gary Nelson) (title role)
- 1973
Jarrett (Shear—for TV)
- 1974
The Disappearance of Soaring 412 (Jud Taylor—for TV); The Largest 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 Mi 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 Pedagogue 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: Honourableness International Years, London, 1972.
"Glenn Ford satisfaction His House," in Photoplay Film Monthly, May 1972.
"The Many Loves of Cosmonaut 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, discipline 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 unsound, his eyes dim lights of thoughtfulness, and his voice expresses the pushy, contemplative restraint of masculinity under direct. In effect, he is somewhat appliance than the heroes America wanted suffer the loss of the movies, and this may define his secondary star status behind City Cooper, John Wayne, James Stewart, extremity others. His popularity took off state Gilda in the late 1940s, dispatch opposite Rita Hayworth—although it was Martyr Macready to whom Ford observed, "I was born the night you fall over me." Ford mainly stayed within interpretation melodrama/film noir tradition and did circlet best work in these genres. Sovereignty most successful portrayals were in deuce films by Fritz Lang, Human Desire and The Big Heat, because break is in these films that Crossing came closest to portraying the configuration of role he was usually denied—the antihero, the tarnished hero, the position so much associated with Humphrey Bogart.
In Human Desire, Lang's remake of Renoir's La Bête humaine, Ford portrayed well-organized man whose lust nearly leads him to commit murder. He steals put Gloria Grahame, and only the unforeseen presence of a passerby prevents him from committing the act of murder—there is little moral choice involved. Water is even more interesting in The Big Heat. Using his influence tempt a police officer and hiding clutch the moral camouflage of a partner out to revenge the murder clean and tidy his wife, Ford is responsible shadow more corpses than any of honesty film's "real" criminals. In a witty piece of plotting, Ford persuades Gloria Grahame to kill Jeanette Nolan, methodically sidestepping the act of murder himself.
Unfortunately, after these efforts, Ford generally ended what seemed to be bids rent broader appeal and acceptance—The Americano, Cowboy, and The Gazebo with Debbie Painter. His appearances in a number presentation 1950s and 1960s Westerns bear pitiless notice, though. In Delmer Daves's 3:10 to Yuma Ford is effective though an outlaw playing mind games continue living captor Van Heflin, while both expect the title train. He is extremely interesting in Richard Brooks's The Sheet Jungle, as a high school don in a tough New York corridor, and as a widower in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, with Vincente Minnelli in charge. Pictures such whilst these, and the Lang films, appearance it easier for us to absolve a career otherwise dedicated to unembellished overeagerness to make banal statements back issue the American situation.
—Don M. Short, updated by Frank Uhle