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Glenn Ford, A legend dies at 90
by Gunika Khurana
After suffering from a series of strokes since 1990’s, Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, was found dead in his Beverly Hills Home on Wednesday.
Ford, 90, was a talented and versatile actor and dedicated 54 years of his life to cinema. In his long connection with Hollywood, he acted in different genres of cinema, excelling almost all.
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 the 1939 film ‘Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence’.
However, it was in 1950 that his career flew high and success kissed his feet, continuing to the early 1990’s, with increasing television roles.
His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include ‘A Stolen Life’, ‘The Big Heat’, ‘Framed’, ‘Blackboard Jungle’, ‘Interrupted Melody’, ‘Experiment in Terror’, ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’, ‘Ransom’, ‘Superman’. His acting also won accolades in Westerns such as ‘The Fastest Gun Alive’, ‘3:10 to Yuma’ and ‘Cimarron’.
Ford also had links with the small screen and was starred for one season in the television series ‘Cade's County’.
Sidney Poitier, Ford’s co-star in one of his greatest hits, said that he was not only a gem of a person, but also a refined actor, who had the magic to glue people on the screen. She further praised him by saying that his magnificent acting skills have no parallel.
Married four times, Ford is survived by his 61 year old son Peter Ford, from his first wife Eleanor Powell.
by Gunika Khurana
After suffering from a series of strokes since 1990’s, Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, was found dead in his Beverly Hills Home on Wednesday.
Ford, 90, was a talented and versatile actor and dedicated 54 years of his life to cinema. In his long connection with Hollywood, he acted in different genres of cinema, excelling almost all.
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 the 1939 film ‘Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence’.
However, it was in 1950 that his career flew high and success kissed his feet, continuing to the early 1990’s, with increasing television roles.
His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include ‘A Stolen Life’, ‘The Big Heat’, ‘Framed’, ‘Blackboard Jungle’, ‘Interrupted Melody’, ‘Experiment in Terror’, ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’, ‘Ransom’, ‘Superman’. His acting also won accolades in Westerns such as ‘The Fastest Gun Alive’, ‘3:10 to Yuma’ and ‘Cimarron’.
Ford also had links with the small screen and was starred for one season in the television series ‘Cade's County’.
Sidney Poitier, Ford’s co-star in one of his greatest hits, said that he was not only a gem of a person, but also a refined actor, who had the magic to glue people on the screen. She further praised him by saying that his magnificent acting skills have no parallel.
Married four times, Ford is survived by his 61 year old son Peter Ford, from his first wife Eleanor Powell.
