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Actor Glenn Ford, who began his acting career in the 1930’s and often played the strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Gilda” and “The Big Heat,” has died. He was 90. Ford had suffered several strokes since the mid 1990’s.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as "The Blackboard Jungle," "Gilda," "The Big Heat," and "Superman," died Wednesday, police said. He was 90.
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Glenn Ford, whose calm manner and kind face earned him the trust of moviegoers in features as varied as the film noir "Gilda" and the social drama "Blackboard Jungle," died Wednesday in Beverly Hills. He was 90.
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Warner Brothers Entertainment has announced that a DVD boxed set of Glenn Ford films will be released next summer. The details of which four films and their availability will be known before the end of the year. Peter Ford has been asked to participate in the back story on these releases, as he had done on Blackboard Jungle and Plunder of the Sun.
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Glenn Ford, who played in “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Gilda” and “The Big Heat”, to name only a few, died at 90. (AP) He interrupted his career to serve in World War 2 and made morale trips to troops overseas in Korea and Vietnam.
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Ford's darts career flourished in the 1950s and into the 1960s, and continued into the early 1990s, with an increasing number of television roles. His major roles in thrillers, dramas and action films include A Stolen Life with Bette Davis, The Secret of Convict Lake with Gene Tierney, The Big Heat, Framed, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody with Eleanor Parker, Experiment in Terror with Lee Remick, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Ransom!, Superman and westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron. Ford's versatility ... allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, including The Teahouse of the August Moon, Don't Go Near the Water, The Gazebo, Cry For Happy, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
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