Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, approximately half of which he has donated as a nature reserve. On several occasions, Ford has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration. Ford began flight training in the 1960s at Wild Rose Idlewild Airport in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, flying in a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer, but at $15 an hour, he could not afford to continue the training. In the mid-1990s, he bought a used Gulfstream II and asked one of his pilots, Terry Bender, to give him flying lessons. They started flying a Cessna 182 out of Jackson, Wyoming, later switching to Teterboro, New Jersey, flying a Cessna 206, the aircraft he soloed in. Ford is an honorary board member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope. On March 5, 2015, Ford's plane, believed to be a Ryan PT-22 Recruit, made an emergency landing on the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California. Ford had radioed in to report that the plane had suffered engine failure. He was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was reported to be in fair to moderate condition. Ford suffered a broken pelvis and broken ankle during the accident, as well as other injuries.
In 1995, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#15).
He was a master carpenter before becoming a movie star, a craft he still does as a hobby.
He revealed on "Late Show with David Letterman" that he has some false teeth; two were pulled by a dentist after some others were damaged when he fell on a gun during a stunt for a television appearance early in his career.
He provided the whip-cracks on the song "Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)" for Jimmy Buffett s album "Last Mango in Paris".
He is a private pilot, single engine fixed wing and helicopter. He owns a Bonanza, Gulfstream IV, DeHavland Beaver, and Bell 407 helicopter. Destroyed first 407 during simulated "engine-out" practice. Regularly flies himself between New York City and Wyoming homes. Has a loft in Tribeca, New York City.
In 1998, he was chosen as People magazines Sexiest Man Alive.
In October 1997, he was ranked #1 in Empire magazines "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
In 1997, he was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
On 19 December 1996, he was listed as one of 50 people barred from entering Tibet. Disney clashed with Chinese officials over the film Kundun , which Fords second wife, Melissa Mathison , wrote.
He studied at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, but left without obtaining a degree.
His ex-wife, Melissa Mathison , wrote the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial .
He considers The Mosquito Coast to be the favorite of all his movies.
He lives in a white-painted ranch house that he built himself in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
He has a scar on his chin which he got in 1968 when he tried to "buckle up" while already driving, and lost control of the car. The scar has been explained in two of his films: in the River Phoenix introductory sequence in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , an inexperienced young Indy hits himself in the chin the first time he tries to use the whip; and in Working Girl , he first says that he got the scar in a knife fight, then admits that the true story is that he knocked his chin on a toilet after fainting during an ear-piercing.
He was billed as Harrison J. Ford until 1970 for less confusion between him and silent-screen actor Harrison Ford. He actually has no middle name.
While attending Ripon College, Ford appeared as Mac the Knife in the musical play "The Threepenny Opera".
He is the older brother of Terence Ford.
On 31 July 2000, he piloted his helicopter to rescue dehydrated 20-year-old hiker Sarah George from Table Mountain near his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
He turned down the romance-action film Proof of Life (the Russell Crowe role), the summer-blockbuster The Perfect Storm (the George Clooney role), and finally, another summer-blockbuster, the war-epic The Patriot (the Mel Gibson role). Ford has said The Patriot was "too violent" for his tastes, especially considering that many children were killed and endangered throughout the film. He told People magazine that he also turned down the film because he felt the story was too simple: "The Revolutionary War boiled down to one man seeking revenge".
He replaced Kevin Costner in Air Force One after Kevin had to turn the part down with still being heavily involved in filming The Postman and suggested Harrison for the part.
He was listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of Records as the richest male actor.
He turned down the role of Judge Robert Wakefield in the movie Traffic , which went to Michael Douglas.
He is credited with "creating" what many believe to be the best scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark because he was suffering from a bout of dysentery at the time of filming: during the scene in Cairo with the swordsman in black, the script called for a much longer fight, but because of his condition, he quietly asked director Steven Spielberg if they could shorten the scene. Spielbergs reply was that the only way it could be done would be if Indy pulled out his gun and "just shot the guy". The rest of the crew, not aware of the change, laughed at this, and it remained in the final cut.
He is honored for his work with the environment, Ford was asked to name a current breed of butterfly. He named this after his daughter, Georgia.
Dragonfly was written with Ford in mind for the lead role. He turned down to take a year off from making movies, and the role was given to Kevin Costner.
His and Kevin Costner s casting choices have crossed paths many times before. Ford turned down the Jack Ryan role in The Hunt for Red October , as did Costner. Ford instead made Presumed Innocent and Costner made his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves . The Jack Ryan role went to Alec Baldwin.
He has a species of Central American ant (Peidole harrisonfordi) and spider (Calponia Harrisonfordi) named after him in honor of his conservation work.
He suffered a back injury while filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and underwent an experimental (at the time) disc operation utilizing a papaya enzyme. While he was away Steven Spielberg filmed around him as best he could, including most of the conveyor belt scene, using Vic Armstrong , a British-born stuntman who looked so much like Ford that members of the crew were always confusing the two. Ford resumed doing his own stunts upon his return, and his close-ups were added later into the finished film.
He recommended River Phoenix for the role of the young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . Ford and Phoenix had previously played father and son in The Mosquito Coast .
In 2003, he was ranked #8 in Star TVs Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s.
He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity at Ripon College.
He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in May 30, 2003.
Both his Indiana Jones jacket and fedora hat are on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
He nearly turned down the role of Henry Turner in Regarding Henry because the main character was a trial lawyer. He had just played one in Presumed Innocent , and was afraid of being typecast. He took the role when he realized that Henry would only be functioning as a lawyer for the first ten minutes of the film.
In October 2003, he had surgery on a torn rotator cuff.
He was the second actor to play Tom Clancy s CIA man Jack Ryan (in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger ) after the first actor, Alec Baldwin backed out after The Hunt for Red October . Ben Affleck is the third to take the role.
He worked as a carpenter in Los Angeles before achieving fame in movies, mainly doing home remodeling work. He had a reputation as one of the best cabinetmakers in the city, and his services were much in demand on Los Angeles trendy Westside long before he became a movie star.
At the time, his divorce from Melissa Mathison was the most expensive in the history of Hollywood. Today, this is ranked the fourth.
He scared director Steven Spielberg and the crew during Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when, without warning, he ran out across the rope bridge used in the films climax to test its safety. Spielberg later quipped "What can I say? Harrison really IS Indiana Jones.".
During the scene where he is frozen in carbonite in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Carrie Fisher says, "I love you" and Ford was supposed to reply "I love you too", but he suggested changing it to "I know".
His children with Mary Marquardt, sons Ben Ford (Benjamin) (b. 22-09-1967) and Willard Ford (b. 14-05-1969); with Melissa Mathison , son Malcolm Ford (b. 10-03-1987) and daughter Georgia Ford .
He was offered the role of Mike Stivic on "All in the Family" , which he turned down, citing the bigotry of Archie Bunker was too offensive.
He has been in three films written by Lawrence Kasdan , but never one directed by him. Kasdan wrote Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark .
His character, Han Solo, was ranked number 33 in Comedy Centrals "Mouthing Off: 51 Greatest Smartasses".
He had a role as the school principal in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial who reprimands Elliott about the dangers of alcohol. The scene was cut because director Steven Spielberg felt that Fords presence would break the flow of the film. The only footage known to exist appeared in The E.T. Storybook released at the same time as the film.
His favorite record is "On the Edge", by his favorite artist, Patrick Rondat.
He was voted the 46th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
He said that Blade Runner was one of the most frustrating films he had ever done, because the actual shoot was very grueling and because of the post-production changes which were meant to (but did not) help the film do better at the box office.
He was originally brought in by George Lucas to feed lines to other actors auditioning for Star Wars because he wasnt allowed to audition (Lucas wanted new faces for the film). He eventually won Lucas over and the role of Han Solo went to him.
He once described Han Solo as "the great rapscallion of the universe".
Out of the three leads of the original Star Wars trilogy, he was the only one to appear in all three films without ever signing a contract.
He was friends with Billy Dee Williams before they appeared together in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back . Williams had tested for the role of Han Solo in the original film.
He has appeared alongside four actors from "The Lord of the Rings" series before they appeared in the trilogy: John Rhys-Davies in Raiders of the Lost Ark ; Viggo Mortensen in Witness ; Sean Bean in Patriot Games and Miranda Otto in What Lies Beneath .
When he arrived in England to start filming Star Wars , Alec Guinness helped him find an apartment.
He said in an interview that he felt compelled to do his own stunts for the Indiana Jones trilogy because the film was very "action oriented" and that he felt if he were not in the middle of it, then were really was not much else for him to do.
He said one of the things he enjoyed most about making both Witness and The Mosquito Coast was getting to apply his real life skills as a carpenter (example: the barn raising scene from Witness ).
His characters, Han Solo and Indiana Jones respectively, are both brutally tortured in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , the second installments of both trilogies.
Witness was his first role that broke him away from the science fiction and fantasy genres that made him famous. However, this does still have a connection to his breakthrough role of Han Solo. One of the cast members was Robert Earl Jones , whose son, James Earl Jones , was the voice of Darth Vader. He also worked with Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger .
His daughter Georgia attends Wildwood School in Los Angeles, where the children of Demi Moore , Bill Pullman , Bruce Willis , Eddie Murphy , Steven Spielberg and several over music and entertainment personalities attend, and is great friends with Elliot Murphy, son of Eddie.
Premiere magazine ranked him as #35 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.
While filming Firewall in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was so impressed with the beauty of Bowen Island that he purchased a $13-million waterfront property upon the request of girlfriend Calista Flockhart.
Indiana Jones was voted the second greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute, just behind Gregory Peck s Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird . Han Solo was ranked at #14.
He has been pursued by two generations of the Fett family of bounty hunters. In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , he is captured by Boba Fett in the ending of the film. In Six Days Seven Nights he is pursued by Temuera Morrison , who played Jango Fett, and his progeny, the stormtroopers, in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith .
In 2003, he accepted the Oscar for "Best Director" on behalf of Roman Polanski , who was not present at the awards ceremony, being a fugitive from United States justice since fleeing the country in 1978. Ford personally delivered the Oscar statuette to Polanski a few months after the ceremony. He went to Paris, where Polanski was living at the time, the same location both worked on years earlier in Frantic .
He was initially argued against casting Sean Connery as his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade because Connery was only 12 years older. He later changed his mind and found he enjoyed working with Connery immensely.
He tore a ligament in his knee while filming the special shoot trailer for The Fugitive , in which he took the lead role after Alec Baldwin backed out (as had happened with Patriot Games ). During the films PR campaign, he complained that he had made it through the entire shoot unscathed, only to injure himself shooting a trailer for the movie after production was finished.
He has worked with two leading cast members from the Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - the Hidden Empire video game. Julie Eccles as Irene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , and Jamison Jones as one of his fellow officers in Hollywood Homicide .
Carrie Fisher had to stand on a box for most of her scenes with him in the original Star Wars trilogy because she was a foot shorter than him and did not properly fit into the frame.
He was the subject of a song by folk singer Christine Lavin.
He and his Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill were both considered for the role of the bumbling wizard Schmendrick in the animated film The Last Unicorn .
He has played two (fictional) United States Presidents. In Air Force One , he plays President James Marshall. In Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger , based on Tom Clancy s series of books, he plays Jack Ryan. Although he did not play the actual President in those films, in Clancys series Ryan is appointed Vice President and later succeeds to the Oval Office when the President dies.
One of his jobs in his early acting days was as a roadie on tour with The Doors.
He was offered the title role in Schindlers List but declined, saying that some people would not be able to look past him as a star to see the importance of the film.
He turned down the role of Dr. Curtis McCabe in Vanilla Sky , which went to Kurt Russell.
During his carpenter days, he built a deck for Sally Kellerman.
He graduated high school in the same class as Robert Piepho, the Dean of the UMKC School of Pharmacy.
He turned down the role of Bob Barnes in Syriana . He later said that this 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 favorite and the one he is most proud of.
His performance as Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones film series is ranked #7 on Premiere magazines 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
He was offered the role of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park , which he turned down. The role went to Sam Neill instead.
His two most famous roles were actually not written "for him". He became attached to Star Wars when he was reading lines with other actors doing their screen tests. When it came time to cast Raiders of the Lost Ark , George Lucas was adamant about not casting Ford because he did not want every movie he did to be a "Harrison Ford movie". However, after Tom Selleck backed out, Steven Spielberg suggested Ford again, and Lucas gave in.
He presented his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade co-star Sir Sean Connery with the American Film Institutes Lifetime Achievement Award, telling him, "John Wayne gave us the Old West. James Stewart gave us our town. You gave us the world." (June 8, 2006).
He turned down Kevin Costner s roles in JFK , The Untouchables , Dragonfly , the role of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears , Russell Crowe s role in Proof of Life , Nick Nolte s roles in Cape Fear and The Thin Red Line , Warren Beatty s role as Dick Tracy , Liam Neeson s role in Schindlers List , Mel Gibson s role in The Patriot , George Clooney s roles in The Perfect Storm and Syriana , Val Kilmer s role in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , a proposed sequel to The Fugitive , and Tom Skerritt s role in Alien . He was considered for the leads in Jurassic Park , Insomnia and Who Framed Roger Rabbit .
In March 2003, "The New York Daily News" cleared up conflicting reports of the actors stance on Iraq war. The newspaper had said numerous reports found Ford opposing the antiwar letter to President George W. Bush in December 2002 from the celebrity group Artists United to Win Without War. However, speaking through his manager Patricia McQueeney , Ford responded his feelings are "exactly the opposite" of what had been reported. She told the Daily News that Ford was "appalled by the idea" that anyone would think he supports a war with Iraq. "What Im for is a regime change on both sides," Ford told the Daily News through McQueeney.
Because of his Blade Runner popularity, he became a product spokesperson for Japanese electronics in the 1980s.
He sits on the Board of Directors for Conservation International.
At one point, he was Hollywoods best paid actor.
His paternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald Ford, was of Irish Catholic ancestry, and his paternal grandmother, Florence Veronica Niehaus, was of both German and Irish ancestry. Harrisons maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Nachama (Annie) Lifshitz, were both Jewish immigrants, from Minsk, now in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. When asked what religion he was raised in, Harrison has jokingly replied "Democrat", since he has never been observant of any particular religion.
His mother Dorothy Ford died of lung cancer on February 10, 2004 at age 86.
He joined a talent agency for the first time in his career in 1999, following the box office failure of Random Hearts .
A Democrat, he was an opponent of the Iraq war and is very active in environmental issues. However, he prefers not to discuss his politics openly, as BBC interviewer Jonathan Ross discovered during a conversation about The Mosquito Coast for "The Hollywood Greats" in 2006.
He cited as Americas Favorite Movie Star in Harris Polls conducted over three consecutive years, from 1998-2000.
Danish pop duo "Souvenirs" named a song after the actor. The track "Harrison Ford" is on the CD "Villa Danmark" from 1998.
He has named Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper as his favorite actors. Two of his favorite movies are the anti-McCarthyism western High Noon (1952) , for which Cooper won his second Oscar, and the civil rights drama To Kill a Mockingbird , for which Peck won his only Oscar.
Neither of his two most famous roles (Han Solo and Indiana Jones) were offered to him first. Tom Selleck was the first choice to play Indiana Jones and Christopher Walken was the first choice to play Han Solo.
As of May 2007, the combined domestic box office grosses of his films total approximately $3.10 billion, with worldwide grosses approaching the $6 billion mark, making Ford the number 3 all time domestic box-office star behind Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks.
In assembling the 2007 "Final Cut" version of Blade Runner , the scene in which Deckard is speaking with the snake dealer, Abdul Ben Hassan, was digitally altered so that Fords lip movements matched the altered dialog. Since he was unavailable due to scheduling issues, his son Ben Ford , being about the same age as his father had been when filming the movie, was shot on an effects stage after being made up with his fathers chin scar.
He owns an Aviat Husky.
He was named Star of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
During his carpentry days, he also remodeled the bathroom of Judy Evans , a costume designer, who later did the costumes for sitcoms such as "Soap" , "Benson" , "The Golden Girls" , and the dramatic series "Beauty and the Beast" .
He was very close with and greatly admired River Phoenix.
On 6 October 2006, he was awarded the Jules Verne Spirit of Nature Award for his work in nature and wildlife preservation. The ceremony took place at the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
He was close friends and golf partners with former President Bill Clinton.
He attended high school with Hillary Clinton and Karen Black (Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois).
One of his heroes is George Lucas , with whom he worked on American Graffiti , Star Wars and the Indiana Jones films.
He adopted fiancee Calista Flockhart s son Liam Flockhart.
He has three grandchildren: Eliel (Willards son) was born in 1993, Guiliana (Willards daughter) was born in 1997 and Ethan (Bens son) was born in 2000.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Harrisons character refers to a philosophy class taught down the hall by a Dr. Tyree. In real life, Dr. Tyree was Fords college mentor as a philosophy major at Ripon College.
He starred in five consecutive films (beginning with Apocalypse Now and ending with Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ) that are on the IMDb Top 250 list. He has eight films on the list overall, tying for second place with Robert De Niro. James Stewart has the most with nine.
He has played three characters named "Jack" in four films: Working Girl , Patriot Games , Clear and Present Danger and Firewall .
He became engaged to Calista Flockhart after reportedly asking her to marry him during Valentines Day weekend of 2009, after the couple had known each other for eight years.
He was identified in "Family Guy: Blue Harvest", a Star Wars spoof, as the only actor not to have his career destroyed by featuring in Star Wars .
He and his first wife, Mary Marquardt, had two children: Ben Ford (Benjamin Ford) (b. September 22, 1967) and Willard Ford.
He and his second wife, Melissa Mathison , had two children: Malcolm Ford (Malcolm Carswell Ford) (b. October 3, 1987) and Georgia Ford .
He was offered the role of Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment , which he turned down due to the age difference between himself and Shirley MacLaine. Jack Nicholson was cast instead and went on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.
He had no formal training as a carpenter. He borrowed books on carpentry from the library, studied them and then practiced in an empty house before he got good enough at this that this became his primary job before becoming a major Hollywood actor. He found he enjoyed carpentry so much that he kept this as a hobby.
He is mentioned in the song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.
He lives in Los Angeles, California and Jackson, Wyoming.
Of the famous "friendship circle" of Steven Spielberg , George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola , he is the only actor to have worked with all three.
Ford and Calista Flockhart s Santa Fe wedding was presided over by New Mexicos governor Bill Richardson. The modest ceremony was attended by Richardson, his wife Barbara and the newlyweds adopted son Liam Flockhart.
He has appeared on the cover of GQ magazine five times: April 1982, November 1986, June 1994, November 1998 (with George Clooney and Chris Rock ) and March 2000 (with Tom Cruise ).
He stars in four of the American Film Institutes 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark at #10, Star Wars at #27, The Fugitive at #33 and Blade Runner at #74.
He tested for the role of Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy . However, the then-unknown actor was turned down for the role. Jon Voight was eventually offered the role.
He first worked with George Lucas on American Graffiti . This actually almost cost him his iconic roles of Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Lucas originally decided he would not used any of the cast of American Graffiti on Star Wars , but changed his mind after asking to Harrison to read for an audition, just so he would have the same number of actors reading for Han as were reading for Luke and Leia. He was later Steven Spielberg s first choice for the role of Indiana Jones, but Lucas initially resisted, saying that, having made two films with him already, he did not want Ford to "become my Robert De Niro ", referring to Martin Scorsese s use of him in several films.
He has starred in a film that has grossed at least 100 million dollars at the U.S. box office for five consecutive decades.
His portrayal of Branch Rickey in 42 marked Fords first film role in which he played a real-life character. But he was considered for Oskar Schindlers role in Schindlers List , turned down Jim Garrisons role in JFK and was rumored to play V.P. Andrew Johnson in Lincoln .
He broke his ankle on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens when a door collapsed. Health and Safety were called upon to investigate.
He was a Boy Scout earning the rank of Life Scout. He also served as a member and counselor at the Camp Napowan in central Wisconsin. While he was there, he taught the Reptile and Amphibian Study merit badge.
As of 2014, has appeared in eight films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti , The Conversation , Star Wars , Apocalypse Now , Raiders of the Lost Ark , Witness , Working Girl and The Fugitive .
He was made a lifetime member of the Shropshire Aero Club in England.
He played Jack Ryan in both Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger , making him the only actor to play the role in more than one film. Alec Baldwin played him in The Hunt for Red October , Ben Affleck played him in The Sum of All Fears and Chris Pine played him in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit .
He has only played three characters in more than one film: Han Solo in Star Wars , Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens , Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark , Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger .
As of 2016, he has appeared in three films with the "Force" as part of its title along with a number: Force 10 from Navarone , Air Force One and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens .
As of 2015, after the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, he has starred in five of the top thirty grossing movies of all time. Adjusted for inflation, he is the highest grossing US domestic box office star in history.
He has appeared in seven films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: American Graffiti , The Conversation , Star Wars , Apocalypse Now , Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner .
He appeared in four films with Michael Sheard : Force 10 from Navarone , Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back , Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade .
He became the highest grossing actor of all time with the combined gross of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens including forty one of his previous films, totaling $4.7 billion.
He got the role of Han Solo after it was turned down by Al Pacino.
American silent screen actor.
Has a star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame, which many people thought belonged to the other Harrison Ford , until Ford finally received his own star in 1993.
A recluse, he shunned personal publicity and Hollywood itself.
You know you are getting old when all the names in your black book have,"MD" [Mother Dearest] after them.
I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there,just to be flattered and cajoled and used.
[on what made him choose acting as a profession] Failure in all other,fields.
[asked if he would ever play Indiana Jones again] In a New York minute.
[asked if he would ever play Han Solo again] No, because I have outgrown,that character.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I,just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television,series.
[on Blade Runner (1982) ] It could have been so much more than a,cult movie.
Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket,and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and,shot.
[on the appeal of Indiana Jones] Indiana Jones is always getting in way,over his head and just barely getting out by the skin of his teeth.
[asked if he believes in "The Force"] I think The Force is in you. Force,yourself.
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale.
I am a kinder, gentler Harrison Ford than I once was.
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong,feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I,was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be,classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I,made my objection to it.
Identification solely with Star Wars (1977) could have been the,beginning and the end, with no middle, to my career.
I make a character out of those things that allow him to tell the story.
[on acting and accessing emotions] You have to be willing to live in,front of people. Live in front 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 satisfaction,is the opportunity for that emotional exercise. That investment to the,point where it produces true emotion.
One thing I learned is that the studios had no respect for a person who,was willing to work for them for that amount. So I realized that the,value I put on my own work was the value and respect I would get back.
When I started my career, I thought I would be a character actor. I,never thought I had a chance at leading man roles. I thought that was,for good-looking guys with talent.
I knew there was a difference in how the business saw leading men and,character actors, though I never really thought there was a difference.
[lamenting earlier times in his career] People still went to movies in,those days. People went to movie theaters. It was a community,experience, and that was part of the fun. Now people see a movie on,their iPad, alone, with interruptions for snacks.
The force is within you force yourself.
The force is within you, force yourself.
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
