Harrison Ford Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Harrison Ford
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Harrison Ford’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards he has won and view photos and videos.

HARRISON FORD PERSONAL DATA

Age: 78 years old

Born in: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born on: 07/13/1942

HARRISON FORD BIOGRAPHY

Harrison was born in 1942 a Chicago, from advertising father and ex-actress mother. Little boy, he joins the boy scouts, where he climbs the ranks and becomes an expert on snakes (ability reversed for fear that Indiana Jones will have reptiles!). In high school he enjoys lending his voice for the school radio and for some sports commentaries, while discovering that acting lessons allow him to overcome shyness. He finished high school in 1960 and, after odd jobs, he moved to California in 1964. He really wants to be an actor. Sign a contract with Columbia for small roles, first appearing, uncredited, as a bellboy in Women like thief (1966) and as a nervous motorist beating up Jack Lemmon in Does Luv mean love?, in 1967. In the same year he was credited for the first time in the western Final assault with Glenn Ford (no relationship). But that’s no good: his sarcasm has offended one of the Columbia executives, so he is content with appearances in Zabriskie Point (1970) by Antonioni, or of small television parts. He wants to support the family (Mary Marquardt, wife until 1979, and two children) and does not want to accept any role to make a living, so he learns carpentry and lives on that, waiting for a great opportunity that may never come. But it comes.
IS’ Francis Ford Coppola who recommends it to George Lucas for the arrogant Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973); in the factory of Coppola will also appear in The conversation (1974) with Gene Hackman and later in Apocalypse Now (1979). But first he meets on his way Han Solo.

Star Wars in 1977 he launched, Mark Hamill is Carrie Fisher in the hyperuranium of the stars, so that soon Harrison is already in the choral epic Force 10 from Navarone (1978) and Excuse me where is the West? (1979), western comedy that he shares with Gene Wilder. However, these are not works that can consolidate him beyond Han Solo: he could be condemned to a good but not long-term career (just like Mark and Carrie), if they do not happen to him. two strokes of luck, captured by him with professionalism and attention.

Tom Selleck he is forced to reject the role of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) by Steven Spielberg, while Dustin Hoffman the part of Rick Deckard in Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott. Right man at the right time, Ford takes over from both of them and is definitively engraved in the collective imagination. It’s done.

Between the beginning of the the eighties and half (abundant) of the Ninety, Harrison Ford becomes the star synonymous with big box office and solid entertainment. In 1983 he married Melissa Mathison, screenwriter of ET (from which she will divorce in 2004), crowning a period that other actors can envy.

In the the eighties earns nomination ai Golden Globe for two films by Peter Weir, the thriller Witness – The witness (1985, his only Oscar nomination) and the gloomy Mosquito Coast (1986). Back in the shoes of Han Solo is Indiana Jones two more times, with The empire strikes again (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, cost him a herniated disc) e Indiana Jones and the last crusade (1989). He tries his hand at the thriller in the European Frantic (1988) by Roman Polanski and in Presumed innocent (1990) by Alan Pakula, is the lust in romantic comedy A career woman (1988), between Melanie Griffith is Sigourney Weaver.

In the the nineties crosses his fate the first time with JJ Abrams, only screenwriter, interpreting About Henry (1991) by Mike Nichols: he is a cynical lawyer who rediscovers life, after having risked dying and having undergone rehabilitation. Bring the CIA agent to the screen twice Jack Ryan invented by Tom Clancy in Power Games (1992) and Under the sign of danger (1994), finding time in 1993 to break the box office again with one of his biggest hits unrelated to a franchise, The fugitive (1993). Hunted by Tommy Lee Jones, gets another nomination ai Golden Globe, repeated shortly after by the first slip: the part of Linus in the remake of Sabrina (1995), directed by Sydney Pollack.

The second half of the nineties made theHarrison Ford boxoffice warranty: Air Force One (1997), where it is an ultra-dynamic President of the United States tackling the hijacking of the presidential jet, is perhaps the latest success based on his hero icon. Focused on the passion of flying (it is in this period that he begins to fly seriously), committed to the environmental front as vice president of the Conservation International, begins to ring flops: The shadow of the devil (1997), Six days seven nights (1998), Crossed fates (1999), K-19 (2001), Hollywood Homicide (2002), Firewall (2005). The only exception could be the boom of The hidden truths (2000), but the horror thriller also works thanks to Michelle Pfeiffer and directed by Robert Zemeckis.

If Harrison, meanwhile got married in 2010 with Calista Flockhart, at this point he manages not to fade is only thanks to a combination of luck and intelligence (mix on which his entire career is based). In fact, Hollywood begins to live on nostalgia, and his iconic charisma makes him appear still in shape in retracing his past glory, with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015, which almost cost him an ankle) and the future Blade Runner 2, or as a symbol of an era that was: see his self-deprecating participation in The mercenaries 3 (2014).

In parallel, Ford communicates to his manager to accept from now on also scripts that do not include him as the protagonist: from 2008 to today the veteran star is thus transformed into a humble supporting actor or co-star of Crossing Over, Extraordinary measures, Good morning in the morning, Cowboys and Aliens, The power of money, Ender’s Game, Adaline – Eternal youth and especially 42 (2013), where he is unrecognizable as the baseball coach Branch Rickley, really existed, demonstrating how behind his apparent nonchalance there is still an actor with strong technical skills, perhaps never really recognized.