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Harrison Ford Biography
Ruggedly handsome, tightlipped leading man whose filmic output includes starring roles in four of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Return of the Jedi (1983). That he has attained this magnitude of stardom is more than a little ironic, inasmuch as at one point in his sagging career, Ford actually quit acting to become a carpenter. Born to a suburban
Chicago family, Ford flunked out of a midwestern college before ending up in Hollywood, where he was fortunate enough to get a contract with Columbia. A series of inconsequential roles in inconsequential pictures, beginning with Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), did little to further his career, but his rugged face made him a natural for Westerns like Journey to Shiloh (1968), as well as occasional gueststar status on TV fare like Gunsmoke and The Virginian. After playing a minor part in the Elliott Gould vehicle Getting Straight (1970), Ford took up carpentry, a trade in which he was quite content, until a relatively unknown young director named George Lucas cast him in a supporting role in 1973's American Graffiti. He was impressive as a young cruiser, but despite his good showing, and a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed The Conversation the next year, Ford was fortunate to have his handyman sideline, because his acting career seemed to be going nowhere.
