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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1 1916), better known by his stage name
Glenn Ford, is an actor. He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child.
Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. His breakthrough role was in 1946, following military service, starring alongside
Rita Hayworth in Gilda. He went on to be a leading man opposite
Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as
Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin.
Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life
, The Big Heat
, Blackboard Jungle
, Interrupted Melody
, Experiment in Terror
, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
and Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive
, ' and Cimarron.
Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to
Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. With
Eleanor Powell he is the father of actor Peter Ford.
In 1962, Glenn Ford won a as best actor for his part in
Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1978, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War.
As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family.
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