He’s got a bit of the sardonic edge of his iconic movie roles.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/harrison-fords-first-role-as-a-bellhop-when-the-112888538907.html
As you can see in the clip above, it was a pretty tiny part — he has a quick conversation with James Coburn while trying to deliver an envelope — and it’d be hard to predict that the 24-year-old in the green jacket would ultimately become an icon. In fact, that’s exactly what some of the brass at Columbia though, too; as he recalled in an interview with Conan O’Brien, Ford was chastised by Walter Beakel, the head of the New Talent program for not seeming like a movie star during his brief 30 seconds of screen time.
“He said, ‘I saw the rushes from yesterday … You’re never going to make it in this business. The first time Tony Curtis was ever in a movie, he delivered a bag of groceries. You took one look at that guy and you said, That’s a movie star,’†Ford recalled. â€And I leaned across his desk and I said, ‘I thought you were supposed to think that’s a grocery delivery boy.’â€
He also had an early role in “American Graffiti” and I think he was a bit of the Han Solo type even if he was a jerk.
The one thing I remember about Ford that I even told my kids was that his dad told him if he wanted to act or go into the arts that’s fine, but learn a craft so that you have something to fall back on. He was a carpenter and did screen testing calls straight from the job site. One bit I heard was that the tools he used in Witness (really liked that film) were all his own and that he still does carpentry.
No clue what caused the breakup, but I never heard he was a jerk about it or anything bad happened, so may have just been a hollywood mutual parting of the way type thing.