Date of Birth
13 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nickname
Harry
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Mini Biography
His ancestor was Irish, his mother Russian-Jewish. He was a blah apprentice at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no able-bodied star, never aloft a C average). Afterwards bottomward out of Ripon Academy in Wisconsin, area he did some acting and afterwards summer stock, he active a Hollywood arrangement with Columbia and afterwards Universal. His roles in movies and TV ("Ironside" (1967), "The Virginian" (1962)) remained accessory and, discouraged, he angry to a career in able carpentry. He came aback big four years later, however, as Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years afterwards that he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Addition four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Absent Ark (1981).Four years afterwards and he accustomed Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as John Book in Witness (1985). All he managed four years afterwards that was his third starring success as Indiana Jones; in fact, abounding of his beforehand acknowledged roles led to sequels as did his added contempo assuming of Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992). Addition Golden Globe choice came his way for the allotment of Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993). He is acutely a absolute Hollywood superstar. He additionally maintains an 800-acre agronomical in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Spouse
Calista Flockhart
(15 June 2010 - present) 1 child
Melissa Mathison
(14 March 1983 - 6 January 2004) (divorced) 2 children
Mary Marquardt
(18 June 1964 - 1979) (divorced) 2 children
Trade Mark
Frequently plays characters who use their intelligence rather than concrete strength
Known to booty a lot of hits and abide a lot of affliction in his activity films
Quiet but absorbing personality
Deep, soft, abatement voice
Best accepted for his iconic roles as Han Solo and Indiana Jones
Known for arena afraid but quick-witted heroes who can anticipate on their feet
Often works with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas
Trivia
Chosen by Empire annual as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in blur history (#15). [1995]
Was a adept carpenter afore acceptable a cine star, a ability he still does as a hobby.
Revealed on the "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) that he has some apocryphal teeth; 2 were pulled by a dentist afterwards some others were damaged back he fell on a gun during a achievement for a TV actualization aboriginal in his career.
He provided the whip-cracks on the song "Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)" for Jimmy Buffett's anthology "Last Mango in Paris"
Private pilot, distinct agent anchored addition and helicopter. Owns a Bonanza, Gulfstream IV, DeHavland Beaver, and Bell 407 helicopter. Destroyed aboriginal 407 during apish "engine-out" practice. Regularly flies himself amid New York City and Wyoming homes. Has a attic in Tribeca, NYC.
Chosen as Bodies Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. [1998]
Ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Cine Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Chosen by "People" annual as one of the 50 Most Beautiful Bodies in the World. [1997]
Listed as one of 50 bodies barred from entering Tibet. Disney clashed with Chinese admiral over the blur Kundun (1997), which Ford's additional wife, Melissa Mathison, wrote. [19 December 1996]
Studied at Ripon Academy in Ripon, Wisconsin, but larboard afterwards accepting a degree.
His ex-wife, Melissa Mathison, wrote the cine for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
Considers The Mosquito Coast (1986) to be the admired of all his movies.
Lives in a white-painted agronomical abode that he congenital himself in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Has a blister on his button which he got in 1968 back he approved to "buckle up" while already driving, and absent ascendancy of the car. The blister has been explained in two of his films: in the River Phoenix anterior arrangement in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), an amateur adolescent Indy hits himself in the button the aboriginal time he tries to use the whip; and in Working Girl (1988), he aboriginal says that he got the blister in a knife fight, again admits that the accurate adventure is that he agape his button on a toilet afterwards amazement during an ear-piercing.
He was billed as Harrison J. Ford until 1970 for beneath abashing amid him and silent-screen amateur Harrison Ford. He absolutely has no average name.
While in academy Ford appeared as Mac the Knife in the agreeable play, "The Threepenny Opera".
Older brother of Terence Ford.
Piloted his helicopter to accomplishment dehydrated 20-year-old ambler Sarah George from Table Mountain abreast his agronomical in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [31 July 2000]
Turned bottomward the romance-action blur Proof of Life (2000) (the 'Russell Crowe (I)' role), the summer-blockbuster The Perfect Storm (2000) (the George Clooney role), and finally, addition summer-blockbuster, the war-epic The Patriot (2000) (the Mel Gibson role). Ford has said "The Patriot" was "too violent" for his tastes, abnormally because that abounding accouchement were dead and endangered throughout the film. He told Bodies Annual that he additionally angry bottomward the blur because he acquainted the adventure was too simple: "The Revolutionary War above bottomward to one man gluttonous revenge".
Replaced Kevin Costner in Air Force One (1997).Listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of Records as the richest macho actor.
Turned bottomward the role of Judge Wakefield in the cine Traffic (2000).
Credited with "creating" what abounding accept to be the best arena in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) because he was adversity from a bender of dysentery at the time of filming: during the arena in Cairo with the swordsman in black, the calligraphy alleged for a abundant best fight, but because of his condition, he agilely asked administrator Steven Spielberg if they could abbreviate the scene. Spielberg's acknowledgment was that the alone way it could be done would be if Indy pulled out his gun and "just attempt the guy." The blow of the crew, not acquainted of the change, laughed at this, and it remained in the final cut.
Honored for his assignment with the environment, Ford was asked to name a new brand of butterfly. He called it afterwards his daughter, Georgia.
Dragonfly (2002) was accounting with Ford in apperception for the advance role. He angry it bottomward to booty a year off from authoritative movies, and the allotment was accustomed to Kevin Costner.
His and Kevin Costner's casting choices accept beyond paths abounding times before. Ford angry bottomward the Jack Ryan role in The Hunt for Red October (1990), as did Costner. Ford instead fabricated Presumed Innocent (1990) and Costner fabricated his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves (1990). The Jack Ryan role went to Alec Baldwin.
The U.S. box appointment grosses of all of Ford's films absolute about $3.18 billion, with common grosses accretion about $5.65 billion. No added amateur in history has box-office grosses as ample as Ford's.
Has a breed of Central American ant (Peidole harrisonfordi) and spider (Calponia Harrisonfordi) called afterwards him in account of his attention work.
He suffered a aback abrasion while filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and underwent an beginning (at the time) disc operation utilizing a papaya enzyme. While he was abroad Steven Spielberg filmed about him as best he could, including best of the agent belt scene, application Vic Armstrong, a British-born achievement man who looked so abundant like Ford that associates of the aggregation were consistently ambagious the two. Ford resumed accomplishing his own stunts aloft his return, and his close-ups were added afterwards into the accomplished film.
Recommended River Phoenix for the role of the adolescent Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Ford and Phoenix had ahead played ancestor and son in The Mosquito Coast (1986).
Ranked #8 in Brilliant TV's Top 10 Box Appointment Stars of the 1990s (2003).
He was a affiliate of Sigma Nu fraternity in college.
30 May 2003: Received brilliant on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Both his Indiana Jones anorak and fedora hat are on affectation at the Smithsonian Institution.
He about angry bottomward the role of Henry in Regarding Henry (1991) because the capital appearance was a balloon lawyer. He had aloof played one in Presumed Innocent (1990), and was abashed of actuality typecast. He took the role back he accomplished that Henry would alone be activity as a advocate for the aboriginal ten account of the film.
October 2003: Had anaplasty on a broken rotator cuff.
Was the additional amateur to comedy Tom Clancy's CIA man Jack Ryan (in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994)) afterwards the aboriginal actor, Alec Baldwin backed out afterwards The Hunt for Red October (1990). Ben Affleck is the third to booty the part.
Worked as a carpenter in Los Angeles afore accomplishing acclaim in movies, mainly accomplishing home adjustment work. Had a acceptability as one of the best cabinetmakers in the city, and his casework were abundant in appeal on Los Angeles' contemporary Westside continued afore he became a cine star.
At the time his annulment from Melissa Mathison was the best big-ticket in the history of Hollywood. Today it is ranked the fourth.
Scared administrator Steven Spielberg and the aggregation during Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) when, afterwards warning, he ran out beyond the braiding arch acclimated in the film's acme to analysis its safety. Spielberg afterwards quipped "What can I say? Harrison absolutely IS Indiana Jones.".
During the arena area he is arctic in carbonite in Brilliant Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Aback (1980), Carrie Fisher says, "I adulation you." and Ford was declared to acknowledgment "I adulation you too." but he appropriate alteration it to "I know."
Children: with Mary Marquardt, sons Ben Ford (Benjamin) (b. 22.09.1967) and Willard (b. 14-05-1969); with Melissa Mathison, son Malcolm Ford (b. 10-03- 1987) and babe Georgia (b. 30-06-1991).
Was offered the allotment of Mike Stivic on "All in the Family" (1968), but angry it down, citation the bigotry of Archie Bunker was too offensive.
Has been in three films accounting by Lawrence Kasdan, but never one directed by him. Kasdan wrote Brilliant Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Aback (1980), Brilliant Wars: Episode VI - Acknowledgment of the Jedi (1983) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
His character, Han Solo, was ranked cardinal 33 in Comedy Central's 'Mouthing Off: 51 Greatest Smartasses'.
He had a role as the academy arch in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) who lectures Elliot about the dangers of alcohol. The arena was cut because administrator Steven Spielberg acquainted that Ford's attendance would breach the breeze of the film. The alone footage accustomed to abide appeared in The E.T. Storybook arise at the aforementioned time as the film.
His admired almanac is "On the Edge", by his admired artist, Patrick Rondat.
He was voted the 46th Greatest Cine Brilliant of all time by Ball Weekly.
Said that Blade Runner (1982) was one of the best arresting films he'd anytime done, because the absolute shoot was actual arduous and because of the post-production changes which were meant to (but didn't) advice the blur do bigger at the box office.
Was originally brought in by George Lucas to augment curve to added actors auditioning for Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) because he wasn't accustomed to audience (Lucas capital new faces for the film). He eventually won Lucas over and the role of Han Solo went to him.
Once declared Han Solo as "The abundant bastard of the universe."
Out of the three leads of the aboriginal Brilliant Wars trilogy, he was the alone one to arise in all three films afterwards anytime signing a contract.
Was accompany with Billy Dee Williams afore they appeared calm in Brilliant Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Aback (1980). Williams had activated for the role of Han Solo in the aboriginal film.
He has acted alongside four actors from "The Lord of the Rings" alternation afore they appeared in the trilogy. John Rhys-Davies in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Viggo Mortensen in Witness (1985); Sean Bean in Patriot Games (1992) and Miranda Otto in What Lies Beneath (2000).
When he accustomed in England to alpha filming Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Alec Guinness helped him acquisition an apartment.
Said in an account that he acquainted accountable to do his own stunts for the Indiana Jones leash because the blur was actual "action oriented" and that he acquainted if he weren't in the average of it, again were absolutely wasn't abundant abroad for him to do.
Said one of the things he enjoyed best about authoritative both Witness (1985) and The Mosquito Coast (1986) was accepting to administer his absolute activity abilities as a carpenter (example: the barn adopting arena from Witness (1985)).
His characters, Han Solo and Indiana Jones respectively, are both atrociously bent in Brilliant Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Aback (1980) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), the additional installments of both trilogies.
Witness (1985) was his aboriginal role that bankrupt him abroad from the science fiction and fantasy genres that fabricated him famous. It does, however, still accept a affiliation to his advance role of Han Solo. One of the casting associates was Robert Earl Jones, whose son, James Earl Jones, was the articulation of Darth Vader. He additionally formed with Ford in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994).
Daughter Georgia attends Wildwood Academy in Los Angeles, area the accouchement of Demi Moore, Bill Pullman, Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy, Steven Spielberg and several over music and ball personalities attend, and is abundant accompany with Elliot Murphy, son of Eddie.
Premiere Magazine ranked him as #35 on a account of the Greatest Cine Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation affection (2005).
While filming Firewall (2006) in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was so afflicted with the adorableness of Bowen Island that he purchased a $13-million beach acreage aloft the appeal of adherent Calista Flockhart.
Indiana Jones was voted the additional greatest awning hero of all time by the American Blur Institute, aloof abaft Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Han Solo was ranked at #14.
Has been pursued by two ancestors of the Fett ancestors of compensation hunters. In Brilliant Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Aback (1980), he is captured by Boba Fett at the end of the film. In Six Days Seven Nights (1998) he is pursued by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett, and his progeny, the stormtroopers, in Brilliant Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Brilliant Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
In 2003, he accustomed the Oscar for "Best Director" on account of Roman Polanski, who wasn't present at the awards ceremony, actuality a avoiding from U.S. amends back beat the country in 1978.
He initially argued adjoin casting Sean Connery as his ancestor in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) because Connery was alone 12-years older. He afterwards afflicted his apperception and begin he enjoyed alive with Connery immensely.
Tore a bond in his knee while filming the appropriate shoot bivouac for The Avoiding (1993), in which he took the advance role afterwards Alec Baldwin backed out (as had happened with Patriot Games (1992)). During the film's PR campaign, he complained that he'd fabricated it through the absolute shoot unscathed, alone to abuse himself cutting a bivouac for the cine afterwards assembly was finished.
Has formed with two arch casting associates from the Brilliant Wars: Rebel Assault II - the Hidden Empire (1995) (VG) video game. Julie Eccles as Irene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Jamison Jones as one of his adolescent admiral in Hollywood Homicide (2003).
Carrie Fisher had to angle on a box for best of her scenes with him in the Brilliant Wars leash because she was a bottom beneath than him and did not appropriately fit into the frame.Was the accountable of a song by folksinger Christine Lavin.
He and his Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) co-star Mark Hamill were both advised for the role of the bumbling astrologer Schmendrick in the activated The Last Unicorn (1982).
Has played two (fictional) US Presidents. In Air Force One (1997), he plays President James Marshall. In Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), based on Tom Clancy's alternation of books, he plays Jack Ryan. Although he did not comedy the absolute President in those films, in Clancy's alternation Ryan is appointed Vice President and afterwards succeeds to the Oval Appointment back the President dies.
One of his jobs in his aboriginal acting canicule was as a roadie on bout with The Doors.
He was offered the appellation role in Schindler's Account (1993) but declined, adage that some bodies would not be able to attending accomplished him as a brilliant to see the accent of the film.
Turned bottomward the role of Dr. Curtis McCabe in Vanilla Sky (2001).
During his carpenter days, he congenital a accouter for Sally Kellerman.
Graduated aerial academy in the aforementioned chic as Robert Piepho, the Dean of the UMKC Academy of Pharmacy.
Turned bottomward the role of Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005). He afterwards said that it was one of the few choices in his career that he regretted.
Of all the characters he has played, he frequently cites Indiana Jones as both his admired and the one he is best appreciative of.
His achievement as Indiana Jones in the "Indiana Jones" authorization is ranked #7 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Cine Characters of All Time.
Was offered the role of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (1993) but angry it down. The role went to Sam Neill instead.
His two best acclaimed roles were absolutely not accounting "for him". He became absorbed to Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) back he was account curve with added actors accomplishing their awning tests. Back it came time to casting Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), George Lucas was determined about not casting Ford because he didn't demand every cine he did to be a "Harrison Ford movie". However, afterwards Tom Selleck backed out, Steven Spielberg appropriate Ford again, and Lucas gave in.
Presented his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) co-star Sir Sean Connery with the American Blur Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, cogent him, "John Wayne gave us the Old West. James Stewart gave us our town. You gave us the world." (8 June 2006)
He angry bottomward Kevin Costner's roles in JFK (1991), The Untouchables (1987), Dragonfly (2002), the role of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and The Sum of All Fears (2002), Russell Crowe's role in Proof of Activity (2000), Nick Nolte's roles in Cape Fear (1991) and The Thin Red Line (1998), Warren Beatty's role as Dick Tracy (1990), Liam Neeson's role in Schindler's Account (1993), Mel Gibson's role in The Patriot (2000), George Clooney's roles in The Perfect Storm (2000) and Syriana (2005), Val Kilmer's role in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), a proposed aftereffect to The Fugitive (1993), and Tom Skerritt's role in Alien (1979) . He was advised for the leads in Jurassic Park (1993), Insomnia (2002/I) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
In March 2003 "The New York Daily News" austere up adverse letters of the actor's attitude on Iraq war. The bi-weekly had said abundant letters begin Ford opposing the antiwar letter to President George W. Bush in December 2002 from the celebrity accumulation Artists United to Win Without War. However, speaking through his administrator Patricia McQueeney, Ford responded his animosity are "exactly the opposite" of what had been reported. She told the Daily News that Ford was "appalled by the idea" that anyone would anticipate he supports a war with Iraq. "What I'm for is a administration change on both sides," Ford told the Daily News through McQueeney.
Because of his Blade Runner (1982) popularity, he became a artefact agent for Japanese electronics in the 1980s.
Sits on the Board of Directors for Conservation International.
At one point Hollywood's best paid actor.
His mother is of absolutely Russian-Jewish heritage, while his ancestor is of Irish- Catholic and German-Protestant heritage. Back asked what adoration he was aloft beneath he joked "democrat", back he has never been advertent with any accurate religion.
His mother Dorothy Ford died of lung blight on 10 February 2004 at the age of eighty-six.
Joined a aptitude bureau for the aboriginal time in his career in 1999, afterward the box appointment abortion of Random Hearts (1999).
A Democrat, he is an adversary of the Iraq war and is actual alive in ecology issues.
Cited as America's Admired Cine Brilliant in Harris Polls conducted over three afterwards years, from 1998-2000.
Danish pop duo "Souvenirs" called a song afterwards the actor. The clue "Harrison Ford" is on the CD "Villa Danmark" from 1998.
Has called Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper as his admired actors. Two of his admired movies are the anti-McCarthyism western Aerial Noon (1952), for which Cooper won his additional Oscar, and the civilian rights ball To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which Peck won his alone Oscar.
Neither of his two best acclaimed roles (Han Solo and Indiana Jones) were offered to him first. Tom Selleck was the aboriginal best to comedy Indiana Jones and Christopher Walken was the aboriginal best to comedy Han Solo.
As of May 2007, the accumulated calm box appointment grosses of his films absolute about $3.10 billion, with common grosses abutting the $6 billion mark, authoritative Ford the cardinal 3 all time calm box-office brilliant abaft Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks.
In accumulating the 2007 "Final Cut" adaptation of Blade Runner (1982), the arena in which Deckard is speaking with the snake dealer, Abdul Ben Hassan, was digitally adapted so that Ford's lip movements akin the adapted dialog. Back he was bare due to scheduling issues, his son Ben Ford, actuality about the aforementioned age as his ancestor had been back filming the movie, was attempt on an furnishings date afterwards actuality fabricated up with his father's button scar.
He owns an Aviat Husky.
1994: Called Brilliant of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
During his carpentry days, he additionally adapted the bath of Judy Evans, a apparel designer, who afterwards did the apparel for sitcoms such as "Soap" (1977), "Benson" (1979), "The Golden Girls" (1985), & the affecting alternation "Beauty and the Beast" (1987).
Was actual abutting with and abundantly admired River Phoenix.
On 6 October 2006, he was awarded the Jules Verne Spirit of Attributes Award for his assignment in attributes and wildlife preservation. The commemoration took abode at the celebrated Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
A abutting acquaintance and golf accomplice of above President Bill Clinton.
Attended aerial academy with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Karen Black (Maine East Aerial Academy in Park Ridge, Illinois).
One of his heroes is George Lucas.
Adopted fiancée Calista Flockhart's son Liam Flockhart.
He has two grandsons. Eliel (Willard's son) was built-in in 1993 and Ethan (Ben's son) was built-in in 2000.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Harrison's appearance refers to a aesthetics chic accomplished bottomward the anteroom by a Dr. Tyree. In absolute life, Dr. Tyree was Ford's academy coach as a aesthetics above at Ripon College.
Starred in 5 afterwards films (beginning with Apocalypse Now (1979) and catastrophe with Brilliant Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)) that are on the IMDb Top 250 list. He has 8 films on the account overall, attached for additional abode with Robert De Niro. James Stewart has the best with 9.
Has played three characters called "Jack" in four films.
Engaged to Calista Flockhart afterwards reportedly allurement her to ally him during Valentine's Day weekend of 2009, afterwards the brace had accepted anniversary added for eight years.
Identified in "Family Guy: Blue Harvest", a Brilliant Wars spoof, as the alone amateur not to accept his career destroyed by featuring in Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
He and his aboriginal wife, Mary Marquardt, had two children: Benjamin Ford (b. 22 September 1967) and Willard Ford (b. 14 May 1969).
He and his additional wife, Melissa Mathison, had two children: Malcolm Carswell Ford (b. 10 March 1987) and Georgia (b. 30 June 1990).Was offered the role of Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983) but he affronted it bottomward due to the age aberration amid himself and Shirley MacLaine. Jack Nicholson was casting instead and went on to win a Best Supporting Amateur Oscar for his performance.
Had no academic training as a carpenter. He adopted books on carpentry from the library, advised them and afresh accomplished in an abandoned abode afore he got acceptable abundant at it that it became his primary job afore acceptable a above Hollywood actor. He begin he enjoyed carpentry so abundant that he kept it as a hobby.
Mentioned in the song "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies.
Lives in Los Angeles, California and Jackson, Wyoming.
Of the acclaimed 'friendship circle' of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola, he is the alone amateur to accept formed with all three.
Ford and Calista Flockhart's Santa Fe bells was presided over by New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson. The bashful commemoration was abounding by Richardson, his wife Barbara and the newlyweds' adopted son Liam Flockhart.
Appeared on the awning of GQ annual bristles times: April '82, November '86, June '94, November '98 (with George Clooney and Chris Rock) and March 2000 with Tom Cruise).
Stars in four of the American Blur Institute's 100 Best Heart-Pounding Movies: Raiders of the Absent Ark (1981) at #10, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) at #27, The Fugitive (1993) at #33 and Blade Runner (1982) at #74.
Tested for the role of Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy (1969). However, the then-unknown amateur was affronted bottomward for the role. Jon Voight was eventually offered the role.
While accessory Ripon College he abutting Sigma Nu, which is now Theta Sigma Tau.
First formed with George Lucas on American Graffiti (1973). This absolutely about amount him his iconic roles of Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Lucas originally absitively he would not acclimated any of the casting of American Graffiti on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), but afflicted his apperception afterwards allurement to Harrison to apprehend for an audition, aloof so he would accept the aforementioned cardinal of actors account for Han as were account for Luke and Leia. He was afterwards Steven Spielberg's aboriginal best for the role of Indiana Jones, but Lucas initially resisted, adage that, accepting fabricated two films with him already, he did not demand Ford to "become my Robert De Niro," apropos to Martin Scorsese's use of him in several films.
Personal Quotes
It's a abstruse fact, but I capital Han Solo to die at the end of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). I anticipation it would accord added weight and resonance. But George Lucas wasn't sympathetic. He didn't demand me dead by those teddy buck guys.
[to amphitheater owners in Las Vegas] I'll accomplish you a deal. I'll try to accumulate authoritative films that put bodies in your theatre seats and you try to accumulate their shoes from afraid to the floor.
[on actuality a arch man] I'm like a fireman. Back I go out on a call, I demand to put out a big fire, I don't demand to put out a blaze in a dumpster.
I acclimated to agitate my head, as in "No, I aloof attending like him." But that's not fair. So I said to those little old ladies at Trenton Airport, "Yes, I am Harrison Ford". And they still didn't accept it was me.
[on arena Indiana Jones afresh in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)] No one wants to see a hero accept to aces up his pikestaff to hit someone, but I'm still absolutely fit abundant to affected it.
[on his alliance to Melissa Mathison] It was aloof allotment of the continuum of the accord . . . I don't apperceive if I anytime proposed to her.
I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. Afterwards 25 years I apperceive absolutely what I'm doing.
I don't anticipate I've baffled anything. I'm still affronted with the aforementioned frustrations, the aforementioned issues, the aforementioned problems as I consistently did. That's what activity is like.
[when asked, "If heaven exists, what would you demand God to say to you at the fair gates"?] You're a lot bigger attractive in person.
You apperceive you are accepting old back all the names in your atramentous book accept "MD" afterwards them.
I anticipate I did accept a acceptability for actuality grumpy. I don't anticipate I'm grumpy. I accept opinions. I accept an absolute vision. I am a bent person. But on a circadian basis, I anticipate I'm added than grumpy. I anticipate it is a case area I am advancing to do business and not there aloof to be flattered and cajoled and used.
The accident of anonymity is article that cipher can adapt you for. Back it happened, I accustomed that I'd absent one of the best admired things in life. To this day, I'm not all that blessed about it.
[in 1997 afterwards the "Star Wars" leash was reissued, answer his aloofness in repeating the role of Han Solo] Already a blur is finished, it's over for me. I'm on to article else.
[acknowledging that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg originally capital addition amateur to comedy Indiana Jones] My arena Indy was mentioned to me about alone six weeks afore cutting started, but actuality additional best wasn't at all offensive. I would consistently accept that it would be accustomed for a administrator - already accepting formed with an amateur in a accurate allotment - not to anticipate of him for article else. I'd assume that he'd demand to accentuate the aberration amid the two characters by accepting addition actor. I was added than blessed back they did ask me to comedy Indiana Jones, because it promised to be a agitating role in a abundant film.
[about the aboriginal canicule of his career] I started by block a Folger's commercial. But I aloof somehow couldn't administer to say, "Honey, that's a abundant cup of coffee".
[on what fabricated him accept acting as a profession] Failure in all added fields.
[in Bodies magazine, 6/23/03] There accept been times in my activity back I accept acquainted I was lonely, but I don't anticipate you demand to alive your activity in adjustment to abate adjoin loneliness.
[asked if he would anytime comedy Indiana Jones again] In a New York minute.
[asked if he would anytime comedy Han Solo again] No, because I accept outgrown that character.
[after his aboriginal awning test] The flat guy told me, "Kid, you accept no approaching in this business." I said, "Why?" He said, "When Tony Curtis aboriginal absolved onscreen accustomed a bag of advantage -- a bag of groceries! -- you took one attending at him and said, 'THAT'S a cine star!'" I said, "Weren't you declared to say, 'That's a grocery commitment boy?' "
I had no apprehension of the affiliated of applause that would appear my way. I aloof capital to accomplish a active with a approved role in a television series.
[explaining how Indiana Jones and Han Solo differed] Altered clothes, altered character. That's how I feel about it.
[talking about Blade Runner (1982)] It could accept been so abundant added than a band movie.
Starring in a science-fiction blur doesn't beggarly you accept to act science fiction.
Whoever had the ablaze abstraction of putting Indiana Jones in a covering anorak and a fedora in the boscage care to be abject into the artery and shot.
[talking about the address of Indiana Jones] Indiana Jones is consistently accepting in way over his arch and aloof almost accepting out by the bark of his teeth.
[asked if he believes in "The Force"] I anticipate The Force is in you. Force yourself.
[talking about George Lucas] I anticipate George brand people. I anticipate George is a kind, warm-hearted person, but he can be a little abrupt with the attributes of acting, the charge to assignment 'til you acquisition something. He's like, "It's appropriate there, it's appropriate there, I wrote it, it's there, aloof do it". But you can't aloof do it that easily.
I am not the aboriginal man who capital to accomplish changes in his activity at 60 and I won't be the last. It is aloof that others can do it with anonymity. I was absorbed in alteration my life. I accept consistently had the adeptness to change and become added bodies through my acting. I took a acceptable attending at myself and absitively I capital article altered from the way I was living. That's not such a bad thing, is it? But, because of my past, I anticipate it took a lot of bodies by surprise. They wondered what was accident to me. I was actual abundant acquainted of what was happening. I'm active the way I demand to live.
I anticipate American films appropriate now are adversity from an balance of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are added affiliated to video amateur than acceptance about animal activity and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the better bread-and-butter force in the US cine business. I'm not a actual cornball actuality - but I accept a acceptable timea acceptable story.
I'm actual afflicted by the admeasurement of arms, at the actuality so abounding bodies in the United States backpack guns. It acutely contributes abundantly to the abomination problems we have. I'm abiding gun laws should be adequate in the United States. I aloof don't apperceive the actual mechanism.
I'm actual abashed about the administration American adopted action is going. I anticipate article needs to be done to advice allay the altitude which accept created a blank and affronted band in the Middle East. I don't anticipate aggressive action is the actual solution. I affliction what we as a country accept done so far.
What does that beggarly [when a administrator says] "Ttrust me"? Does that beggarly I should anticipate all of my experience? Should I alter a assertive ability with belief? Area does that get you? I accept had acquaintance in my life. I am 63 years old. Why should I be dupe a director?
My access to acting is the "let's pretend" academy of acting. If absolute affect is available, use it, contrarily I chase what I anticipate is an AA rule: "Fake it 'til you accomplish it". Emotions are an absorbing language. Sometime they bastard up on you back you're not expecting, back you are accessible to it.
[on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)] I accepted the appulse of those movies because I had adolescent accouchement who watched them religiously. I saw the Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) films so generally in my abode that I concluded up alive all of the added actors' lines.
I am a kinder, gentler Harrison Ford than I already was.It's actual little agitation for me to board my fans, unless I'm absolutely demography a pee at the time.
Before, I was beholden for a job, about any job. Now, I'm afraid but I apperceive I accept added options, and aback I ask for the money, they pay it. It's that simple.
I saw a bit of administrator Stephen Gaghan's cine Syriana (2005), and I appetite I'd played the allotment that was offered to me - [George Clooney]'s part. I didn't feel acerb abundant about the accuracy of the actual and I anticipate I fabricated a mistake. I anticipate the blur underwent some changes, and I anticipate a lot of it is actual truthful: the things that I anticipation weren't, were obviated afterwards I larboard the table.
I had a actual able activity about the Vietnam War, and I had a able activity about all-around in it. The aggressive abstract was in place, I was summoned for a concrete exam, and I was either activity to be classified as fit for aggressive account or achieve my argument to it. So I fabricated my argument to it.
I grew up in the Midwest. You don't ask what a person's adoration is, you don't ask what their backroom are, you don't ask how abundant money they achieve and I appealing abundant still accept that attitude about it. It's none of anybody's business and I don't advantage anyone by cogent them what my claimed backroom are . . . The arguments are abundant too attenuate to be entered in that way, to my mind. There are things that I anticipate are accident in the apple that are arrant mistakes but I'm alone operating out of my own box and I don't accept any expertise. I'm a aborigine . . . I accept one vote, that's all I should have.
I don't demand to be a cine star. I demand to be in movies that are stars.
[about Han Solo, speaking in 1979] He's not a agenda appearance to me at all. He's as absolute as annihilation else. I never anticipation of the appearance as accepting alone two ambit until the critics said so. And they're wrong. The third ambit is me.
Identification alone with Brilliant Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) could accept been the alpha and the end, with no middle, to my career.
[on registering as a careful activist during the Vietnam war] I abashed them so abominably that they never took activity on my petition. My careful argument wasn't based on a history of religious affiliation, which fabricated it difficult at the time. I went aback to my aesthetics training from college. I remembered Paul Tillich's phrase, "If you accept agitation with the chat God, booty whatever is axial or best allusive to your activity and alarm that God". I consistently had agitation with the angle of God in a amateur form. So I developed a apriorism and took the Biblical admonition to adulation thy acquaintance as thyself as the axial and best allusive affair in my life. I accumulated it all and typed for canicule and beatific it off and never heard a word. Never got alleged in.
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish an an actor.
Los Angeles is area you accept to be if you demand to be an actor. You accept no choice. You go there or New York. I addled a bread about it. It came up New York, so I addled again. Aback you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go area it's algid and afflicted and be poor there?
If bodies admit me aback I'm out in public, I'm actual nice to them. I'm actual nice to bodies alike aback they don't admit me. I don't alike apperception if bodies appear up to me while I'm bistro dinner, but if they admit me while I'm accepting sex, I debris to assurance autographs.
I'm old abundant to comedy my own ancestor in this one. Sean's alone twelve years earlier than I am. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) I had to comedy so abundant adolescent than I am in adjustment to achieve it assignment for him. It was absolutely a strain.
[on The Mosquito Bank (1986)] That's a cine I like actual much. It gave me an befalling to about-face people's acumen of me on its head.
[on fatherhood]: My aboriginal adolescent was built-in aback I was 25. Babies adopting babies is not a appealing sight. I'm abundant bigger at it now.
[on George Lucas] A bubbler from which my career sprang, added or less.
[on acting] - I adulation it. I don't feel as advantageous any abode as I do on a cine set. I'm actual afraid and captivated at the luck I've had. I've been awfully lucky. I've had a continued run. And now I accept a adventitious to comedy old guys.
[on what he looks for in a film] I attending for those things that I can accept an affecting advance in. ... I disadvantage myself by thinking, 'Oh, this is what I'm attractive for, this is what I like.' I don't apperceive what I like. I like what I like. ... actuality an abettor storyteller, allowance actualize characters that accompany a chance affecting appearance and dimension.
I achieve a appearance out of those things that acquiesce him to acquaint the story. I'm not an amateur who will say, 'Well, my appearance would never do that.' If the chance requires it, again I'll acquisition a way of all-around that in character. For me, it's not about performance. It's about storytelling. Once I get a bright abstraction of what I demand to accomplish, again acting is aloof bathrobe up and playing.
[on Steven Spielberg] It's adamantine to say why addition is acknowledged or not successful, but Steven has all of the brainy capacities and the blur chops to achieve acknowledged movies. I anticipate he understands animal affect actual able-bodied and he understands affecting architecture and he understands cinema. And if he chooses to do a accepted film, it will acceptable be actual successful. If he chooses to do article with a altered affectionate of ambition, again Steven is defended abundant I anticipate to let the chips abatement area they may.
[on Sabrina (1995)] Somehow Sydney Pollack and I talked ourselves into alive on that. Sydney's gone now. I absence him. We both lived continued abundant to affliction it. There is no acumen to do article that's already been done. But appropriately we launched the careers of Greg Kinnear and Julia Ormond, who is admirable in the movie. She's gone on to accept a acceptable career. It was a blue-blooded effort, a camp chance for both of us.
[About acting and accessing emotions] You accept to be accommodating to *live* in advanced of people. Alive in advanced of people. Let them see the good, the bad, the ugly, the weak, the strong, the conflicted, the terrible... One of the things about acting that gives me the greatest achievement is the befalling for that affecting exercise. That advance to the point area it produces accurate emotion.
(2010, on acting in film) I'm in it for the money. And I beggarly that in the nicest accessible way. This is my job. Acting is my craft, I've spent my accomplished activity alive on it and I demand to get paid able-bodied to do it, because contrarily I'm actuality irresponsible, not account what I do for a living. Aback I came into this business I didn't alike apperceive the names of the cine studios - I was beneath arrangement to a flat for $150 a week. One affair I abstruse is that the studios had no account for a actuality who was accommodating to assignment for them for that amount. So I accomplished that the amount I put on my own assignment was the amount and account I would get back.
(2010, on fame) There's annihilation acceptable about actuality famous. You consistently think, 'If I'm successful, again I'll accept opportunities.' You never amount the amount of acclaim will be a absolute accident of privacy. That's incalculable. What a accountability that is for anybody. It was hasty and I've never enjoyed it. You can get the table you demand in a restaurant. It gets you doctor's appointments. But what's that worth? Nothing. The absolute bread of the branch is abandon - to achieve choices, do the projects that you demand to do and accept some ascendancy over the belief and the way a blur is appear and sold.
(2010) I'm so amorous about aerial I generally fly up the bank for a cheeseburger. Aerial is like acceptable music: it elevates the spirit and it's an animating freedom. It's not a adventure affair or an adrenaline rush; it's agreeable in a action that takes focus and commitment. I adulation the machines, I adulation the aerodynamics community. I acclimated to own airplanes and accept pilots aerial them for me, but I assuredly accomplished they were accepting added fun than I was. They were accepting to comedy with my toys. I was 52 aback I started aerial - I'd been an amateur for 25 years and I capital to apprentice article new. Acting was my alone identity. Learning to fly was a lot of work, but the net aftereffect was a faculty of abandon and a amusement in seeing to the assurance of myself and the bodies who fly with me. All of my planes are abundant to fly, and that's why I've got so abounding of them. I accept a Citation Sovereign, a all-embracing jet; a Grand Caravan, a turboprop aircraft able of operating on battered strips; and a De Havilland, a backcountry plane. I accept a 1929 Waco Taperwing open-top biplane; a 1942 PT-22 open-top monoplane trainer; an Aviat Husky, a two-seat fabric-covered backcountry plane; and a Bell 407 helicopter. I additionally accept added than my fair allotment of motorbikes - eight or nine. I accept four or bristles BMWs, a brace of Harleys, a brace of Hondas and a Triumph; additional I accept sports touring bikes. I'm a distinct rider, and I adulation actuality out in the air. I like the focus that comes aback you're benumbed - you absolutely accept to be actual keyed into what you're doing. I ride up into the mountains in LA on arced little coulee anchorage on Sunday mornings with a accumulation of added enthusiasts.
(2010) There's annihilation bigger than seeing a assemblage of elk appropriate alfresco the window of my abode in Wyoming. My acreage gives me an befalling to be abutting to nature, and I acquisition airy alleviation in nature, advertent our breed in the ambience of the accustomed world. The acreage is abundant the aforementioned as it was 150 years ago. It's in the mountains and had never been developed aback I bought it. Apart from the home and outbuildings, I've kept it appealing abundant in that state. I apperceive that the acreage will be there for as continued as I alive and able-bodied afterwards that in the easily of my children.
Salary
Firewall (2006) | $15,000,000 |
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) | $25,000,000 + 20% of the Gross |
What Lies Beneath (2000) | $20,000,000 |
Random Hearts (1999) | $20,000,000 |
Six Days Seven Nights (1998) | $20,000,000 |
Air Force One (1997) | $22,000,000 |
The Devil's Own (1997) | $20,000,000 |
Clear and Present Danger (1994) | $10,000,000 |
Patriot Games (1992) | $9,000,000 |
Presumed Innocent (1990) | $12,500,000 |
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | $500,000 |
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | $10,000 |
American Graffiti (1973) | $500/week |
A Time for Killing (1967) | $150/week |
Luv (1967) | $150/week |
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) | $150 |
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