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Within 29 days it would have been Ronald Lacey`s (Major Arnold Toht) 73th birthday.
* September 28, 1935
† May 15, 1991

Trivia

Release date: June 12, 1981

Oscars:
Best Sound
Best Art Direction
Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

Oscar nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director -> Steven Spielberg
Best Original Score -> John Williams
Best Cinematography

The series:
Raider of the lost ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (2008).

Indiana Jones was named for George Lucas’ malamute dog Indiana. Source / More (Book)

Harrison Ford was actually dragged behind the truck for close ups. When asked if he was worried, Ford said: “No. If it really was dangerous, they would have filmed more of the movie first.”

Raiders of the lost ark ranks number 16 in the American box-office rankings.
Grossing adjusted for inflation -> $564.1 m Source / More (Web)

Tom Selleck was Spielberg’s first choice, but the studio was could not break up the contract Selleck had for his television series Magnum P.I. Source / More (Book)

Height of the huge Boulder: 12 ft (3,6 meters)
Weight: 800 pounds (362 kilogram)
Weight of a real rock: 80 tons. Source / More (Book)

Indiana Jones’s kangaroo-hide bullwhip was sold in December, 1999 at Christie's auction house in London for $43,000

The opening scene in the lost South American temple is partly based on a Disney adventure. Exploring a lost temple, Donald Duck, his nephews, and Scrooge McDuck must evade flying darts, a decapitating blade, a huge boulder, a tunnel flooded with gushing water, etc. Source / More (Book)

Bibliography

Bio

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 worked again with Steven Spielberg in the classic Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Harrison's next film Crossing Over (August 2008) tells the story of 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)