Glenn Ford Biography

Fast Facts

• Received the Donostia Award at the 1987 San Sebastian International Film Festival
• Inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1978
• Participated in a few West Coast stage companies before making his film debut in "Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence" in 1939
• Quote: "When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life․ It gives the audience someone real to identify with․"
• Widely known for taking on roles in which he plays as ordinary men in unusual circumstances
• Frequently portrayed cowboy-type roles in Westerns
• Once worked was a waiter in a Santa Monica bar for $5 a week
• Insisted on being shot on film from his left side because he was self-conscious about a previous injury he had sustained when he was kicked in the right side of his jaw by a horse
• As a member of the U․S․ Marine Corps, he served in World War II and Vietnam as a motion-picture production technician
• Being able to draw and fire in 0․4 seconds, he was known as the "fastest gun" in Hollywood westerns