Harrison Ford - Successful Actor and Star of the Star Wars Trilogy 1942-

I hold on to normalcy as if it were my life preserver. A normal family life, normal work relationships—they are what keep me in touch with the audience I’m trying to reach.
—HARRISON FORD

Un a summer day in 2000, hiker Sarah George suddenly became I while climbing the Tetons. A passing hiker placed an emergency call to Gounty Sheriff Bob Zimmer, who called a resident of nearby Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The resident, megastar Harrison Ford, often volunteered for rescues. He flew his Bell 407 helicopter to pick up George. Piloting with the same deftness as his character in Star Wars, Ford took George to a hospital, then headed home to his eight hundred-acre ranch.
One of the most successful actors in Hollywood, Harrison Ford has seen ten of his thirty-eight films gross more than $100 million. He has worked with legendary directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Sydney Pollack and has shared the screen with Tommy Lee Jones, Melanic Griffith, Michelle PfeifFer, and Brad Pitt.

Ford was born on July 1.3, 1 942, in Chicago, Illinois, to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. He says he had a normal childhood in a home where he felt “supported and encouraged.” At school, however, Harrison was shy and reclusive. He was tormented incessantly by school bullies. Not surprisingly, he didn’t do well academically. “I didn’t believe in careers and thought that holding clown a … job was a monumental task. I just wanted excitement.”
Harrison went to college at Ripon, a small school in Wisconsin, but he rarely attended classes. In his junior year, however, he signed up for a drama class and was smitten from the moment he stepped onstage. Harrison decided to leave school to pursue acting. With his new wife, classmate Mary Marquardt, Harrison settled in Laguna Beach, California, where he took odd jobs and worked at the local theater. A Columbia Pictures talent scout spotted him and signed him for a $150-per-week job with the studio. But the minor TV and film roles he had were uninspiring.
After the Fords had two sons, Benjamin and Willard, Harrison took up carpentry to supplement his income. His first professional project was a $100,000 recording studio for musician Sergio Mendes. Ford eventually built a client list that included many of Hollywood’s celebrities, and with a comfortable income he was able to be more selective in his choice of acting roles.
Harrison’s first break came when the young director George Lucas sought actors for his film American Graffiti (1973). Harrison landed a small part in what became a Hollywood triumph. More important, however, was the impression he made on Lucas. A few years later the director thought of Harrison for the 1977 space thriller Star Wars. With its simple theme of good versus evil and its breathtaking special effects, the movie took Hollywood by storm. Newsday called the movie “one of the greatest adventure movies ever made.”
As Hans Solo, the cocky, fortune-hunting pilot of an intergalactic spaceship, Harrison infused his own disarming wittiness and charm into the role. “He has this great sense of spontaneity, as if every reading is his first,” Lucas said of Ford’s ability to create enduring characters. Harrison reprised the role in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return ofthejedi (1983). The films are among the top-ten all-time highest-grossing movies.
Harrison appeared in half a dozen films, none as memorable or successful as Star Wars, before Lucas presented him with another career-building opportunity. He was working with Steven Spielberg—director of the new film, who was another creative genius in the industry—on an adventure trilogy about the exploits of archaeologist Indiana Jones. Originally, Harrison wasn’t in the running at all. “Lucas hadn’t considered using his Hans Solo for another heroic role,” wrote Newsweek, “and he was the last actor interviewed for the lead.” The film turned out to be pure magic for Ford: “1 had the most fun I ever had with a character and with a director,” he said.
Today, Raiders of the Lost Ark remains the twelfth highest—grossing film ever. Many, including Spielberg himself, credit Ford for the film’s blockbuster appeal. He has a keen sense of what works in a scene, and made valuable contributions. For example, Harrison felt that a drawn-out sword fight between Jones and an enemy was dramatically wrong. He offered Spielberg an alternative that matched his character’s cocky self-assurance: in the film (ndy gives his combatant an almost dumbfounded look, then pulls out a gun and shoots him.
Harrison reprised Indiana Jones in two more films, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). But though his career was launched by playing masculine, witty heroes, Harrison did not want to limit himself to those roles. His 1985 portrayal of police officer John Book in Witness allowed him to demonstrate his range—and his brilliant performance earned him an Academy Award Best Actor nomination.
Harrison’s appeal ensures that he has no shortage of roles to choose from. He has played an ex-CIA agent in two films based on Tom Clancy novels,
Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994); he reprised David Janscn’s TV role as a wrongly accused doctor pursuing his wife’s one-armed murderer in The Fugitive (1993). He played the president of the United States fighting international terrorists in Air Force One (1997).
Harrison seeks variety in his roles. Often he will take one that is just plain fun, as in Working G-Yr/(1988), opposite Melanie Griffith and Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), costarring Anne Heche. Though not box-office blockbusters, Harrison believes that such lighthearted pictures have their own measure of success. He loves “the challenge of it, the fun of it,” he says of comedies.
Ford takes his success in stride. Home and family are his priorities. His marriage to Mary Marquardt ended in 1979, a casualty of his restlessness and impatience for success. In 1983 a mellowed Ford married screenwriter Melissa Mathison, They separated in 2001. They have two children, foutteen-year-old Malcolm and el even-year-old Georgia. Though the Wyoming ranch is his favorite place, he also spends time at his New York City apartment. Ford likes to indulge in another passion too—-flying.
Hatrison Ford is among a handful of stars that command $20 million per film. He believes in sharing his good fortune with others: for example, a family charitable foundation is run by one of Ford’s grown sons. But Ford prefers to offer his services quietly and privately, so the foundation does not bear Ford’s name.
Harrison tries to avoid the celebrity spotlight, but at times he cannot escape his fame. His footprints appear in the cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre; his star appears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Perhaps his most prestigious honor was the 2000 Life Achievement Award by the American Film Institute. Ford joined film legends Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, Sidney Pokier, Alfred Hitchcock, and Steven Spielberg.

“It’s a mystery to me how I happened to get invited to join that list. But I’m very flattered,”

he said. Most comfortable in jeans and a T-shirt, Harrison is unlike many other film stars. He has no desire to direct or produce. He prefers the collaboration and teamwork that comes with acting.

“It’s a question of how I want to live my life,” he explains. “Now I make one movie a year, then I go away and do other things. . . . It’s a full-time job. I have a life.”

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