Date of Birth |
13 July
1942
, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Nickname |
Harry |
Height |
6' 1" (1.85 m) |
Biography
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
His father had Irish and German ancestry, and his maternal grandparents
were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He was a lackluster
student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no
athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon
College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock,
he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His
roles in movies and television (Ironside (1967), The Virginian
(1962)) remained secondary and, discouraged, he turned to a career in
professional carpentry. He came back big four years later, however, as
Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years after that, he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Another four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
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