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If Harrison Ford isn't the world's most successful movie star, he definitely comes close. He's played some of cinema's most iconic heroes several times over in a career that's earned some $550 billion worldwide. After his first real film role in George Lucas' American Graffiti in 1973, his career floundered and he supplemented his meager acting career with carpentry work — until Lucas hired him again for Star Wars. He went on to steal the show as Han Solo in the infamous trilogy, made the moniker Indiana Jones a household name and defined 1990s intrigue as CIA agent Jack Ryan. Ford ... made a number of well-received films like Blade Runner, Working Girl and Witness. As anti-establishment in his personal life as he is onscreen, Ford avoids the Hollywood lifestyle, preferring to live on his 700-acre Montana ranch with girlfriend Calista Flockhart.
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Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Academy Award-nominated American actor. Ford is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the adventurous archaeologist and action hero Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. in the Indiana Jones film series. He is ... known for his role as the haunted android tracker Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's sci-fi cult film Blade Runner (1982), but his four-decade career also included roles in other Hollywood blockbusters such as Air Force One and The Fugitive. At one point, Ford had roles in the top five box-office hits of all time, though his role in 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (as Elliot's school principal) was deleted from the final cut of the film. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.
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One of the highest-paid and best-known leading men in American movies, Harrison Ford has put his mark on two great franchises: the first Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones series. Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago, Ill., Ford flunked out of college and went to Hollywood, where he played small roles in a succession of small movies.
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Harrison Ford has one of the most recognizable faces in America, but he's a reluctant star who sees fame as a condition. "It's like having a limp," says the actor who has headlined six of the 30 top-grossing movies of all time. "You live with it."
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Leading man Harrison Ford's craggy features and powerful physical presence have enhanced some of Hollywood's most successful blockbusters of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Together, his films have grossed more than $3 billion, making him one of the biggest box-office draws ever. Under contract first to Columbia and then to Universal during the 60s, the admitted perfectionist opted out of the business and turned to carpentry, acting only occasionally before appearing as a drag racer in George Lucas' "American Graffiti" (1973). He shot to fame as the arrogant but good-humored space pilot Han Solo in Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977), and his star shone even brighter in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), the second installment of the trilogy. Ford established himself as a leading international romantic star as the swashbuckling archeologist of Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and the subsequent "Indiana Jones" chronicles. Cult movie fans loved his cynical, android-killing cop in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" (1982), although Ford himself felt less than a full partner in the collaboration.
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When Harrison Ford entered the world, these stories made the front page of the nation's newspapers: In the United States, Congress establishes the Women's Naval Reserves (WAVES). American steel workers receive a 15 percent wage increase by the War Labor Board. In other news, President Castillo of Argentina declares that Argentina will remain neutral throughout the war. In London, the House of Commons grants Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war plans a 475-25 vote of confidence. Japanese forces easily invade East New Guinea. In the Soviet Union, German forces capture Sevastopol and the Soviet naval base in the Black Sea.
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