Ford, Glenn

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Ford
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood’s Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
    • Five of his films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant: Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and Superman (1978).
    • Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1, 1916, in Sainte-Christine-d’Auvergne, Quebec, Canada the son of Hannah Wood (née Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1922, when Ford was aged six, the family emigrated southwest across the border into the United States, first to Venice, California, and then to Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles.
    • After being nominated in 1957, 1958, and 1962, Ford won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra’s Pocketful of Miracles, a remake of Lady for a Day (1933) that Ford helped produce.
    • Ford was listed in Quigley’s Annual List of Top Ten Box Office Champions in 1956, 1958, and 1959, topping the list in 1958. For 10 consecutive years from 1955 through 1964, Ford was listed among Quigley’s list of the top-25 box-office stars.
    • In 1958, Ford won the Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance for his role in Don’t Go Near the Wat
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