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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford  (born May 1 1916),
better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an
actor.  He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf
Regional County Municipality, Quebec|Portneuf,
Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica,
California with his family as a child. He became a
naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939.

Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys
and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. 
His acting career began on stage, and his first
large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a
Barbed Wire Fence. 
 
In 1942, Ford's film career was interrupted when
he volunteered for duty in World War II with the
U.S. Marine Corps. His interest in the military
continued as, during both the Korean War and the
Vietnam War, Ford took the time to make goodwill
visits to the American troops.

Following military service, Ford's breakthrough
role was in 1946,  starring alongside Rita
Hayworth in Gilda. He went on to be a leading man
opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred
with other acting greats such as Bette Davis,
Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin.

Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s
and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with
increasing television roles.  His major roles in
thrillers and dramas and Action movie|action films
include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Blackboard
Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror,
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Superman
(movie)|Superman and Western movie|Westerns such
as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and
Cimarron (1960 movie)|Cimarron.

Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to
Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and
Cynthia Hayward.  With Eleanor Powell, he is the
father of actor Peter Ford.

After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962
Glenn Ford won a List of Golden Globe Awards:
Film, Best Actor, Comedy/Musical|Golden Globe
Award as best actor for his performance in Frank
Capra's Pocketful of Miracles. For his
contribution to the motion picture industry, Glenn
Ford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6933 Hollywood Blvd. In 1978, he was inducted into
the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1992 he was awarded
the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the
Second World War.

As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in
Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills with his
son's family.

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001229|name=Glenn Ford
*http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800011434&c
f=gen&intl=us Yahoo Movies profile
*http://www.thegoldenyears.org/ford.html Classic
Movies (1939 - 1969): Glenn Ford