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| Birthday: July 13, 1942 | ||||
| Place of Birth: Chicago, IL. | ||||
| Education: Ripon College, WI. | ||||
| Family: Married to Melissa Mathison (1983-present);: Two Children: Malcolm (born in March 1987) and Georgia (born in June 1990); Married to Mary Marquardt (1964-1979, divorced) Two Sons: Willard and Ben | ||||
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Harrison Ford Biography: Superstar Harrison Ford's rough appearance and commanding physical stature have blessed some of Hollywood's most victorious blockbusters of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Combined, his movies have made more than $3 billion, making him one of the largest box office money makers of all time. Under contract first to Columbia and then to Universal during the 60s, the professed purist opted out of the business and turned to carpentry, performing only sporadically before playing the role of a drag racer in George Lucas' "American Graffiti" (1973). He rose to distinction as the haughty but humorous spaceship pilot Han Solo in Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977), and his star was even brighter in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), the second sequel of the trilogy. Harrison Ford cemented himself as a leading worldwide movie star as the swaggering archeologist of Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and the succeeding "Indiana Jones" archives. Cult movie fans loved his sarcastic, machine killing policeman in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" with Daryl Hannah (1982), although Ford himself felt less than a full equal in the partnership. He showed a wider emotional range in Peter Weir's "Witness" (1985) as a cop required to take refuge from deadly colleagues in an Amish community, earning an Oscar nomination as Best Actor. Ford followed that up with a very motivated performance in Weir's somewhat awkward "The Mosquito Coast" with River Phoenix (1986).
Ford was over shadowed by his more bubbly co stars in Mike Nichols' romantic comedy "Working Girl" (1988) but added the edgy emotional heart for Roman Polanski's "Frantic" (1988) and "Presumed Innocent" (1990). Ford found another niche taking the role of Jack Ryan from Alec Baldwin in "Patriot Games" with Samuel L. Jackson (1992) and its sequel "Clear and Present Danger" with Benjamin Bratt (1994). "The Fugitive" and "Air Force One" with Glenn Close (1997). The mature and handsome actor was shoddily miscast in the Bogart role of Sydney Pollack's pointless remake of "Sabrina" with Greg Kinnear (1995), although "Regarding Henry" (1991) presented him his best chance since "Witness" to discover the more helpless side of his star personality as a rough attorney turned into a naive innocent by a gunshot wound to the cranium. While in New York City filming "The Devil's Own" (1997), next to Brad Pitt, Ford sloppily let down his guard and permitted tabloid hounds to catch him having too much fun. He defended the follow-on jeers and endured the talk show circuit, but the task did not make the deeply private and restrained actor any more prepared for the press. The gigantic success of the "Star Wars" trilogy in 1997 only shadowed the incredible box office demand of this exceptionally robust star, although the movies he made in his 50's were not as in style or triumphant as his action films. Film seekers stayed away from flops like the insipid, adventure romance "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998), which, like "Working Girl" and "Sabrina", matched him with a much younger leading female, Anne Heche, who was nearly half his age. Hardly any people turned out to see "Random Hearts" (1999), a Sydney Pollack performance in which Ford played a widowed cop preoccupied with learning the facts of his dead wife's affair with a Congresswoman's husband. He than teamed with Michelle Pfeiffer as a married couple plainly haunted by a young woman in the adventure movie "What Lies Beneath" (2000). The motion picture was a modest success, with numerous critics saying that the plot and the fright used by the directors was exceedingly scripted. Ford next starred in the 2002's adventure thriller, "K-19: The Widowmaker." The movie was the true story of Russia's first nuclear submarine and Ford played the daring Russian captain of the sub.
It was possibly this most recent in a string of professional flops that led Harrison to declare in 2002 that he would revisit his best known persona in the 4th "Indiana Jones" flick, with Steven Spielberg directing and Frank Darabount developing the screenplay. Shortly thereafter, Ford split with his wife and went public with his romance with actress Calista Flockhart, and the couple soon became icons on the Hollywood scene. The following year Ford and artist Josh Hartnett teamed up for the Ron Shelton movie, "Hollywood Homicide," with Josh Hartnett (2003), which matched them as uneven L.A. detectives, each with wacky jobs on the side. Although Ford worked hard to promote the film the diverse lack of authentic comic flare in the film, and the lack of cohesion with Josh, disillusioned critics and summer audiences. In 2006, Harrison Ford was hired and cast in the crime drama thriller "Firewall" (2006), about a security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom. After taking a year off, Harrison was right back on the movie set in 2008 with two huge blockbusters. First, was the drama "Crossing Over" (2008), with Sean Penn, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd, about "Crossing Over" (2008) is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures. In 2008, Ford teamed once again with Lucas, Spielberg, Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", about famed archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones who is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls. Ford admits that Indiana Jones is 20 years older - and acts 20 years older in the film. See The StarLink Blog to preview the movie trailer.
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Ford then settled into a
relaxed box office pattern for the rest of the 80s and on
into the 90s. He collaborated with 
