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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Ford, licen... more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. Despite his versatility, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances.

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Superman
(1978)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Runtime:
143 min
Director:
Richard Donner
Cast:
Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty
7.3
94%
81
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Superman II
(1980)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who attempts to make himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save...
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Richard Lester
Cast:
Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure
6.8
85%
83
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Gilda
(1946)
Drama, Romance, Thriller
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Charles Vidor
Cast:
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, George Macready, Steven Geray
7.6
90%
N/A
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The Big Heat
(1953)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
7.9
100%
N/A
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3:10 to Yuma
(1957)
Drama, Thriller, Western
Dave Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Delmer Daves
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
7.6
96%
N/A
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Midway
(1976)
Action, Drama, History, War
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Jack Smight
Cast:
Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook
6.8
47%
48
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Blackboard Jungle
(1955)
Crime, Drama
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Richard Brooks
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Louis Calhern
7.4
76%
N/A
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Pocketful of Miracles
(1961)
Comedy, Drama
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can hel...
Runtime:
136 min
Director:
Frank Capra
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Hope Lange
7.2
50%
N/A
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Human Desire
(1954)
Drama, Romance
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and pe...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case
7.1
59%
N/A
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Is Paris Burning?
(1966)
Drama, History, War
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city w...
Runtime:
173 min
Director:
René Clément
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Versini, Alain Delon, Gert Fröbe
6.9
71%
N/A
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Happy Birthday to Me
(1981)
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident an...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Cast:
Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker, Frances Hyland
6.1
27%
N/A
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Experiment in Terror
(1962)
Crime, Thriller
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Blake Edwards
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole, Ned Glass
7.3
100%
N/A
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The Fastest Gun Alive
(1956)
Drama, Western
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Russell Rouse
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Jubal
(1956)
Action, Western
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Delmer Daves
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson
7.1
100%
N/A
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A Stolen Life
(1946)
Drama
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Cast:
Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charles Ruggles
7.4
N/A
N/A
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
(1957)
Comedy, TV Movie
An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Daniel Mann
Cast:
Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford, Machiko Kyô
6.9
86%
N/A
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
(1963)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Ron Howard
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Cowboy
(1958)
Western
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Delmer Daves
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Gazebo
(1960)
Comedy, Crime
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
George Marshall
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, John McGiver, Doro Merande, Mabel Albertson
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Violent Men
(1955)
Western
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner'...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Rudolph Maté
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Sheepman
(1958)
Comedy, Western
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs
Runtime:
85 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Cimarron
(1960)
Drama, Western
The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
Runtime:
147 min
Director:
Anthony Mann
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn
6.4
N/A
N/A
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The Sacketts
(1979)
Western
Two part TV adaptation of Louis L'Amour's third novel in the Sackett series. The story follows the three Sackett brothers out west from their Tennessee home. Along the way the oldest, Tell, prospects for gold, while the two younger Orin and Tye herd cattle and later help bring order to a racially divided Santa Fe.
Runtime:
240 min
Director:
Robert Totten
Cast:
Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson
7.8
N/A
N/A
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1962)
Drama
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within th...
Runtime:
153 min
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Cast:
Ingrid Thulin, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Virus
(1980)
Adventure, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Runtime:
156 min
Director:
Kinji Fukasaku
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Robert Vaughn, Masao Kusakari, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Affair in Trinidad
(1952)
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Vincent Sherman
Cast:
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Rounders
(1965)
Comedy, Western
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking i...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Ransom!
(1956)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rich man (Glenn Ford) stuns his wife (Donna Reed) and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
Runtime:
109 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Torpedo Run
(1958)
Drama, War
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Runtime:
98 min
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Dear Heart
(1964)
Comedy, Family
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Delbert Mann
Cast:
Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Nichols, Michael Anderson, Jr.
7.3
N/A
N/A
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The Man from the Alamo
(1953)
Western
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Budd Boetticher
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian, Victor Jory
6.5
100%
N/A
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The Man from Colorado
(1948)
Action, Drama, Western
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Henry Levin
Cast:
Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins, Edgar Buchanan
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Undercover Man
(1949)
Crime, Drama
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Joseph H. Lewis
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, Frank Tweddell
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Texas
(1941)
Drama, Romance, Western
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the in...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
George Marshall
Cast:
William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Framed
(1947)
Crime, Drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Richard Wallace
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Desperadoes
(1943)
Comedy, Romance, Western
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a s...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Charles Vidor
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Destroyer
(1943)
Adventure, Drama, War
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, u...
Runtime:
99 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Day of the Evil Gun
(1968)
Western
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Jerry Thorpe
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Harry Dean Stanton
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Lust for Gold
(1949)
Action, Western
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
Runtime:
90 min
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Heaven with a Gun
(1969)
Western
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head catt...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Lee H. Katzin
Cast:
David Carradine, Glenn Ford, J.D. Cannon, Barbara Hershey, Harry Townes
6.3
N/A
N/A