Happy Birthday Harrison Ford!

Happy Birthday Harrison Ford!  He started out in television and one of his early film roles was in A Time for Killing (1967) playing Lt. Shaffer, a Confederate soldier trying to escape to the Mexican border.  Ford, it is well known, decided to become a carpenter, but took the part of Bob Falfa in George Lucas’ American Graffiti (1973).  He had an iconic role of course as Han Solo in Star Wars (1977).  He returned to the role in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).  Ford had a cameo role in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) playing a soldier identified as G.Lucas.  Next, he starred alongside Gene Wilder in The Frisco Kid (1979). He returned to Star Wars in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). In 1981, Ford took another iconic role as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.  He starred in a dystopian sci fi film playing Rick Deckard in Blade Runner (1981).  Then, completed the Star Wars trilogy with Return of the Jedi (1983).  Ford returned with the bullwhip in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).  

Next, he turned to drama with the Peter Weir directed films, Witness (1985), and The Mosquito Coast (1986). Ford also went into comedy with the Mike Nichols’ Working Girl (1988).  He finished the Indiana Jones trilogy with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).  Then, he starred in the Tom Clancy adaptation, Patriot Games (1992), playing Jack Ryan.  Ford played an older Indiana Jones in the episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, “Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues” (1993).  He played Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993).  Next, Ford was in the next Jack Ryan film, Clear and Present Danger (1994).  Ford played President James Marshall in Wolfgang Petersen’s action film, Air Force One (1997).  He ventured back into sci fi with Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens (2011) which adapted a comic book.  Ford played Colonel Graff in the adaptation of the sci fi novel, Ender’s Game (2013).  He made an incredible return as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).  Ford also returned in another sci fi film, as Rick Deckard, in the brilliant Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve.  This year, on May 31st, Ford was at the opening ceremony for Galaxy's Edge and gave a touching tribute to Peter Mayhew for their beloved starship now flown by others!  Ford voices the Rooster in The Secret Life of Pets 2.  Next year, he plays John Thornton in Call of the Wild directed by Chris Sanders and based on the Jack London novel.  Harrison Ford has brought us many iconic roles so Happy Birthday Harrison Ford!   

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