Glenn Ford Biography

Fast Facts

• Nephew of Sir John A
• MacDonald, a former prime minister of Canada, and descendant of Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States
• As a youngster, learned to ride horses and play polo while employed as a stable boy for Will Rogers
• Worked as Tallulah Bankhead's stage manager in New York
• Served as a Marine during World War II; served two tours of duty in Vietnam
• Published an autobiography, Glenn Ford, R
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• Beverly Hills, in 1970
• Played Clark Kent's adoptive father in 1978's Superman, one of his last major feature-film roles
• Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers by the Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma in 1978
• Awarded the French Legion of Honor Medal in 1992