Biography: life and films
Glenn Ford was an American actor whose birth name was Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford. He was born in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada on 1st May 1916 and died in Beverly Hills, California, USA on 30th August 2006, aged 90.His best films as an actor include Nick Grinde's Men Without Souls (1940), Sidney Salkow's The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942), Charles Vidor's thriller Gilda (1946), Fritz Lang's crime-thriller The Big Heat (1953) and Delmer Daves's 3:10 to Yuma (1957).
Glenn Ford appeared in 88 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: George Marshall (7 films), Henry Levin (4), Charles Vidor (4), Delmer Daves (3), Curtis Bernhardt (3), Vincente Minnelli (2), Ted Tetzlaff (2), Sidney Salkow (2), Rudolph Maté (2), Nick Grinde (2), Joseph H. Lewis (2), Fritz Lang (2), Frank R. Strayer (2), Charles Barton (2) and Burt Kennedy (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (41 films), Western (24), comedy (15), Thriller (11), War (9), romance (8), crime-thriller (4), comedy-drama (4), history (3), comedy-romance (3), Horror (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Glenn Ford over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939) [a]
My Son Is Guilty (1939) [a]
Babies for Sale (1940) [a]
Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) [a]
Convicted Woman (1940) [a]
Men Without Souls (1940) [a]
The Lady in Question (1940) [a]
Go West, Young Lady (1941) [a]
So Ends Our Night (1941) [a]
Texas (1941) [a]
Flight Lieutenant (1942) [a]
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) [a]
Destroyer (1943) [a]
The Desperadoes (1943) [a]
A Stolen Life (1946) [a]
Gallant Journey (1946) [a]
Gilda (1946) [a]
Framed (1947) [a]
The Loves of Carmen (1948) [a]
The Man from Colorado (1948) [a]
The Mating of Millie (1948) [a]
The Return of October (1948) [a]
Lust for Gold (1949) [a]
Mr. Soft Touch (1949) [a]
The Doctor and the Girl (1949) [a]
Convicted (1950) [a]
The Flying Missile (1950) [a]
The White Tower (1950) [a]
Follow the Sun (1951) [a]
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) [a]
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) [a]
The Green Glove (1952) [a]
Young Man with Ideas (1952) [a]
Appointment in Honduras (1953) [a]
Plunder of the Sun (1953) [a]
The Man from the Alamo (1953) [a]
Time Bomb (1953) [a]
Blackboard Jungle (1955) [a]
Interrupted Melody (1955) [a]
The Americano (1955) [a]
The Violent Men (1955) [a]
Trial (1955) [a]
Jubal (1956) [a]
Ransom! (1956) [a]
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) [a]
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) [a]
3:10 to Yuma (1957) [a]
Don't Go Near the Water (1957) [a]
Cowboy (1958) [a]
Imitation General (1958) [a]
The Sheepman (1958) [a]
Torpedo Run (1958) [a]
It Started with a Kiss (1959) [a]
The Gazebo (1959) [a]
Cimarron (1960) [a]
Cry for Happy (1961) [a]
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) [a]
Experiment in Terror (1962) [a]
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) [a]
Love Is a Ball (1963) [a]
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) [a]
Advance to the Rear (1964) [a]
Dear Heart (1964) [a]
Fate Is the Hunter (1964) [a]
The Money Trap (1965) [a]
The Rounders (1965) [a]
Rage (1966) [a]
A Time for Killing (1967) [a]
The Last Challenge (1967) [a]
Day of the Evil Gun (1968) [a]
Heaven with a Gun (1969) [a]
Smith! (1969) [a]
Santee (1973) [a]
Midway (1976) [a]
That's Action (1977) [a]
Superman (1978) [a]
Day of the Assassin (1979) [a]
Stridulum (1979) [a]
Fukkatsu no hi (1980) [a]
Happy Birthday to Me (1981) [a]
Casablanca Express (1989) [a]
Raw Nerve (1991) [a]
Our Hollywood Education (1992) [a]
The silent era of French cinema
The history of French cinema
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