Glenn Ford Net Worth

Glenn Ford's Quotes

• When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.
• People laugh when I say I'm not an actor, but I'm not, I play myself.
• The Western is a man's world and I love it.
• I've never played anyone but myself on screen.
• If they tried to rush me, I'd always say I've only got one other speed, and it's slower.

Interesting Facts about Glenn Ford

1. He has appeared in five films with Rita Hayworth: Affair in Trinidad (1952), The Lady in Question (1940), Het liefdeleven van Carmen (1948), The Money Trap (1965) and Gilda (1946).
2. Awarded the French Legion of Honor Medal (Legion d'Honneur), and appointed to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1992, by the French Government for service in World War II. Created to honor extraordinary contributions to the Republic of France, the Legion of Honor is France's highest distinction.
3. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1978.
4. Voted the #1 box-office attraction for 1958 by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
5. Often during his career he insisted on being shot looking to camera left--he had been kicked in the right side of his jaw by a horse and insisted the left side of his face was his only filmable side.
6. Credited with being one of the fastest "guns" in Hollywood westerns; able to draw and fire in 0.4 seconds, he was faster than James Arness (Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke (1955)) and John Wayne. However, Peter Breck (Nick Barkley of The Big Valley (1965)) has been credited by Wild Western Magazine as being able to draw and fire in .16 seconds.
7. Related to Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada.
8. Is a direct descendant of the eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren.
9. Grandfather of Aubrey Newton Ford (b. 1977), Ryan Welsie Ford (b. 1984), and Eleanor Powell Ford (b. 1988), whose parents are Ford's son, Peter Ford (b. 5 February 1945), and his wife, Lynda Gundersen.
10. Served in Vietnam as a reserve military officer.
11. Went on a jungle mission with a Special Forces team during the Vietnam War.
12. Retired from acting in 1991, at age 75, following heart and circulatory problems.
13. On May 1, 2006, he had a gala 90th birthday celebration at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. There was a showing of a newly-restored print of Gilda (1946) and his son, Peter Ford, hosted the event. Over 700 tickets went on sale and were quickly sold out.
14. Had been scheduled to make his first public appearance in 15 years at a 90th birthday tribute gala in his honor hosted by the American Cinematheque at Grauman's Eqyptian Theatre in Hollywood on 1 May 2006, but was unable to attend. He had suffered a series of minor strokes since his retirement, and was consequently very frail.
15. His ancestry included English, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch. He had some family roots in the English town of Horwich, near Bolton, Lancashire.
16. He played Jonathan Kent in the 1978 film Superman (1978). In Superman Returns (2006), a photograph of him can be seen in Clark Kent's old home. The film was released two months and two days prior to Ford's death.
17. Like his close friend Ronald Reagan, started as a Democrat but gradually switched to becoming a conservative Republican.
18. After having been a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for a year, he joined the Marine Corps during WWII in December of 1942, and subsequently met first wife, tap-dancing extraordinaire Eleanor Powell, at a war-bond cavalcade. They married in 1943.
19. His first screen test at 20th Century Fox did not turn out well. He was given a second chance by Columbia a year later, however, and was signed.
20. Before becoming an actor he worked in a Santa Monica (CA) bar as a barkeep for $5 a week.