
Glenn Ford
Department: Acting
Biography
Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era, with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances, and appeared in films such as Glinda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), and Superman (1978).
Known For

Pocketful of Miracles
1961

The Gazebo
1960

Heaven with a Gun
1969

Superman
1978

Gilda
1946

Blondie Plays Cupid
1940

A Time for Killing
1967

Human Desire
1954

Midway
1976

The Undercover Man
1949

The Rounders
1965

Blackboard Jungle
1955

The Fastest Gun Alive
1956

Day of the Evil Gun
1968

The Hollywood Clowns
1979

The Secret of Convict Lake
1951

Convicted
1950

3:10 to Yuma
1957

Framed
1947

Virus
1980

The Big Heat
1953

Jarrett
1973

The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1963

Experiment in Terror
1962

Jubal
1956

The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957

Interrupted Melody
1955

The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970

The Violent Men
1955

The Man from Colorado
1948

The Loves of Carmen
1948

A Stolen Life
1946

The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974

Affair in Trinidad
1952

The Green Glove
1952

The Money Trap
1965

Happy Birthday to Me
1981

The Man from the Alamo
1953

The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968

Cimarron
1960

Cowboy
1958

Mr. Soft Touch
1949

Torpedo Run
1958

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979

The Visitor
1979

Texas
1941

The Lady in Question
1940

Casablanca Express
1989

The White Tower
1950

The Sheepman
1958

Lust for Gold
1949

Plunder of the Sun
1953

Santee
1973

The Desperadoes
1943

Flight Lieutenant
1942

Dear Heart
1965

The Doctor and the Girl
1949

Fate Is the Hunter
1964

Destroyer
1943

The Redhead and the Cowboy
1951

Great White Death
1981

The Last Challenge
1967

Don't Go Near the Water
1957

Ransom!
1956

Love is a Ball
1963

Trial
1955

Cry for Happy
1961

Smith!
1969

Young Man with Ideas
1952

The Americano
1955

Advance to the Rear
1964

Convicted Woman
1940

Men Without Souls
1940

Border Shootout
1989

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939

Time Bomb
1953

Babies for Sale
1940

It Started with a Kiss
1959

Imitation General
1958

Day of the Assassin
1979

The Return of October
1948

Appointment in Honduras
1953

So Ends Our Night
1941

The Mating of Millie
1948

My Town
1986

The Flying Missile
1950

Follow the Sun
1951

Go West, Young Lady
1941

Police Story: No Margin for Error
1978

City Story
1954

Have Faith in Our Children
1955

Gallant Journey
1946

Final Verdict
1991

Raw Nerve
1991

William Holden: The Golden Boy
1989

The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942

Rage
1966

My Son Is Guilty
1939

The Day Called X
1957

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982

The Gift
1979

The Marshal of Madrid
1972

Sam Cade
1972

Show-Business at War
1943

Beggarman, Thief
1979

Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
1943

Long Way Home
1975

Punch and Jody
1974

The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977

The Greatest Gift
1974

Guadalcanal Diary
1943

Evening in Byzantium
1978

Superman II
1980

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Operation Teahouse
1956

The Making of Midway
2001

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Police Story
1973

This Is Your Life
1952

The Dean Martin Show
1965

The Sacketts
1979

Once an Eagle
1976

The Family Holvak
1975

MGM Parade
1955

Cade's County
1971

The Bob Hope Show
1950

V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

The Dick Powell Show
1961

Hollywood and the Stars
1963

Dinah!
1974

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Once Upon a Wheel
1971

MGM Parade
1955

Beggarman, Thief
1979