Harrison Ford
Biography
Harrison Ford
Remarkable:
Harrison about Blade runner: “Blade runner was not my favorite film. I tangled with Ridley.”.
Born:
July 13, 1942
Arguably one of the most bankable movie star ever, Harrison Ford came into his success relatively late in life. Ford was working as a carpenter when in 1973 he got the chance to audition for American Graffiti. Ford played a secondary role but the most important aspect of that film, however, was that it marked Ford’s first collaboration with director George Lucas.
Four years later he became a co-star in Star wars and a superstar in Raiders of the lost ark. Harrison was nominated for an Academy award for his portrait of a city cop in Amish county in Witness.
Over the next ten years, his films ran the gamut from legal thrillers (1990’s Presumed Innocent) to classic romantic comedies (Sabrina in 1995) to action-adventure blockbusters, Patriot Games (1992), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and The Fugitive (1993).
Most recently, he starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the thriller What Lies Beneath (2000).
A fourth Indiana Jones installment is in the works and slated for 2008 and Crossing Over (2007) tells the story of about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.
Academy awards
1986 Nominated Oscar Best Actor for: Witness (1985)
Selected Movies:
- Star Wars (IV 1977) + (V 1980) + (VI 1983)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- Witness (1985)
