GLENN FORD
Occupation: Actor
Birth Name: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton
Born: May 1, 1916, Quebec, Canada
HIS BIOGRAPHY
Dependable, solidly built leading man who took his stage name from Glenford,
a town in Canada. Ford entered films in 1939 after some experience on
Broadway and first made his name in GILDA (1946), opposite Rita Hayworth.
He excelled at playing well-meaning, ordinary men confronted by unusual or
threatening situations, as in YOUNG MAN WITH IDEAS (1952), THE BIG
HEAT (1953) and BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955). Married to actress-dancer
Eleanor Powell from 1943 to 1959.
HIS FILMOGRAPHY
- 1939 HEAVEN WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE
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- 1939 MY SON IS GUILTY
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- 1940 BABIES FOR SALE
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- 1940 BLONDIE PLAYS CUPID
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- 1940 CONVICTED WOMAN
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- 1940 THE LADY IN QUESTION
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- 1940 MEN WITHOUT SOULS
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- 1941 GO WEST, YOUNG LADY
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- 1941 SO ENDS OUR NIGHT
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- 1941 TEXAS
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- 1942 THE ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN
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- 1942 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
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- 1943 THE DESPERADOES
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- 1943 DESTROYER
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- 1943 HOLLYWOOD IN UNIFORM
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- 1946 GALLANT JOURNEY
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- 1946 GILDA
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- 1946 A STOLEN LIFE
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- 1947 FRAMED
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- 1948 THE LOVES OF CARMEN
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- 1948 MAKE IT REAL
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- 1948 THE MAN FROM COLORADO
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- 1948 THE MATING OF MILLIE
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- 1948 THE RETURN OF OCTOBER
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- 1949 THE DOCTOR AND THE GIRL
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- 1949 HOLLYWOOD GOES TO CHURCH
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- 1949 LUST FOR GOLD
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- 1949 MR. SOFT TOUCH
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- 1949 THE UNDERCOVER MAN
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- 1950 CONVICTED
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- 1950 THE FLYING MISSILE
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- 1950 THE REDHEAD AND THE COWBOY
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- 1950 THE WHITE TOWER
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- 1951 FOLLOW THE SUN
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- 1951 THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE
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- 1952 AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD
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- 1952 THE GREEN GLOVE/LE GANTELET VERT
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- 1952 YOUNG MAN WITH IDEAS
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- 1953 APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS
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- 1953 THE BIG HEAT
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- 1953 THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO
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- 1953 PLUNDER OF THE SUN
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- 1953 TERROR ON A TRAIN
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- 1954 CITY STORY
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- 1954 HUMAN DESIRE
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- 1955 THE AMERICANO
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- 1955 BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
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- 1955 INTERRUPTED MELODY
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- 1955 TRIAL
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- 1955 THE VIOLENT MEN
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- 1956 THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE
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- 1956 JUBAL
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- 1956 RANSOM
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- 1956 THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
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- 1957 3:10 TO YUMA
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- 1957 DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER
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- 1958 COWBOY
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- 1958 IMITATION GENERAL
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- 1958 THE SHEEPMAN
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- 1958 TORPEDO RUN
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- 1959 THE GAZEBO
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- 1959 IT STARTED WITH A KISS
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- 1960 CIMARRON
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- 1961 CRY FOR HAPPY
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- 1961 POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES
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- 1962 EXPERIMENT IN TERROR
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- 1962 FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
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- 1963 THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER
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- 1963 LOVE IS A BALL
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- 1964 ADVANCE TO THE REAR
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- 1964 DEAR HEART
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- 1964 FATE IS THE HUNTER
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- 1965 THE ROUNDERS
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- 1965 SEAPOWER
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- 1966 IS PARIS BURNING?/PARIS BRULE-T-IL?
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- 1966 THE MONEY TRAP
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- 1966 RAGE
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- 1967 THE LAST CHALLENGE
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- 1967 A TIME FOR KILLING/THE LONG RIDE HOME
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- 1968 DAY OF THE EVIL GUN
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- 1969 HEAVEN WITH A GUN
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- 1969 SMITH!
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- 1973 SANTEE
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- 1976 MIDWAY
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- 1978 SUPERMAN
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- 1979 THE VISITOR
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- 1980 VIRUS/FUKKATSU NO HI
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- 1981 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
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- 1990 BORDER SHOOTOUT
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- 1990 CASABLANCA EXPRESS
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- 1991 RAW NERVE
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- 1992 OUR HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION
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