Glenn Ford - biography

“An actor should be ready to play any role within reason.  For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.”

“An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him.  If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it’s done correctly.”

“I don’t know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts.  You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn’t make it to the play.  I didn’t think anything of it.”

“I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn’t show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting.  So I thought, ‘this is silly,’ and became an actor.  I certainly never thought I’d wind up in motion pictures.  That was far beyond anything I’d ever dreamed of.”

“He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr.  Rogers.  I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.”

“I can’t frankly see much difference in the film industry at all.  The only difference might be that they don’t take as much time as they used to.  For example, they’ll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.”

“I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it’s more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up.  A lot of people don’t realize that.”

“William Holden and I weren’t just good friends.  He was my very best friend.  I feel his loss very much still.”

“I think the director is becoming more important.  To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director.  If the director’s good than the end result will be good.”

“If they try to rush me, I always say, I’ve only got one other speed and it’s slower.”

“It really doesn’t matter whether it’s the villain or the hero.  Sometimes the villain is the most colorful.  But I prefer a part where you don’t know what he is until the end.”

“Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned.  They are the same today as they were years ago.”

“One thing led to another and I didn’t have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr.  Rogers.  He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I’d better learn how to ride.  He was very kind to me.”

Glenn Ford has appeared in the following films:
Night in Manhattan (1937)
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Convicted Woman (1940)
Men Without Souls (1940)
Babies for Sale (1940)
The Lady in Question (1940)
Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Texas (1941)
Go West, Young Lady (1941)
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
The Desperadoes (1943)
Destroyer (1943)
Gilda (1946)
A Stolen Life (1946)
Gallant Journey (1946)
Framed (1947)
The Mating of Millie (1948)
The Man from Colorado (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
The Return of October (1948)
The Undercover Man (1949)
Lust for Gold (1949)
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
The White Tower (1950)
Convicted (1950)
The Flying Missile (1950)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
Follow the Sun (1951)
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
The Green Glove (1952)
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Time Bomb (1953)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
City Story (1954)
Human Desire (1954)
The Americano (1955)
The Violent Men (1955)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Trial (1955)
Ransom! (1956)
Jubal (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957)
Cowboy (1958)
The Sheepman (1958)
Imitation General (1958)
Torpedo Run (1958)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
The Gazebo (1959)
Cimarron (1960)
Cry for Happy (1961)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Experiment in Terror (1962)
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
Love Is a Ball (1963)
Advance to the Rear (1964)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Dear Heart (1964)
The Rounders (1965)
The Money Trap (1965)
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
Rage (1966)
A Time for Killing (1967)
The Last Challenge (1967)
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Smith! (1969)
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Santee (1973)
Midway (1976)
Superman (1978)
Stridulum (1979)
Day of the Assassin (1979)
Fukkatsu no hi (1980)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Casablanca Express (1989)
Border Shootout (1990)
Raw Nerve (1991)