Harrison Ford - Actor

Harrison Ford is a legend. He has been one of my favourite actors ever since I saw him in Star Wars as Han Solo. He has made so many great moies over the years. This hub is all about Harrison Ford as well as the movies he has starred in.

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the Star Wars film series, and the adventurous, tenacious archaeologist/action hero Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple Of Doom, and The Last Crusade.

Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hit Hollywood blockbusters such as Air Force One and The Fugitive, which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles. At one point Ford had roles in the top five box-office hits of all time. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.

As of September 2006, the combined domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total approximately US$3.10 billion, with worldwide grosses approaching the US$6 billion mark, making Ford the #2 all-time box-office star behind Tom Hanks.

Ford was born on Monday, July 13, 1942, at 11:41 AM CST in Chicago, Illinois at Swedish Covenant Hospital to Dorothy Nidelman (born Dora Nidelman on October 17, 1917, in New Jersey), a former radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford on November 20, 1906 in New York; died February 10, 1999), an advertising executive and a former actor. Ford's maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants. When asked in which religion he was raised Ford jokingly responded, "Democrat."[2] Ford has also said that he feels "Irish Roman Catholic American as a person but I feel Jewish American as an actor".[3]

He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout and worked at a Scout Camp as a Reptile Study merit badge counselor. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided that the character of young Indiana Jones would be depicted as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They also jokingly reversed Ford's knowledge of reptiles into Jones' fear of snakes and spiders.

In 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, where he claims he was picked on by bullies and ignored by girls and also voted "Boy Least Likely to Succeed". He was the first student voice heard on the high school radio station, WMTH-FM where he was also their first sportscaster during his senior year 1959-1960. The radio room still bears his graffiti. He attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He took a drama class in his junior year, chiefly as a way to meet women. Ford, a self-described "late bloomer", became fascinated with acting. Toward the end of his college freshman year, he was a member of a folk band called The Brothers Gross, in which he played gutbucket. He, however, did not graduate from Ripon.