Glenn Ford, longtime leading man in scores of films, dies at 90

WTNH Television ^ | 8/31/06 | Puppage

[Puppage]

R.I.P.

[SJSAMPLE]

One of America's best actors.
I think he personified the late-era cowboy of the early 1900s. And he never failed to impress in comedic roles.

[Puppage]

And he never failed to impress in comedic roles

Absolutely. And, to look at him, you'd never think so.

[SuperSonic]

[Hatteras]

[Tijeras_Slim]

He was great in that early 80's miniseries "The Sacketts" with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.

[YellowRoseofTx]

Excellent actor, and a very handsome sexy man.

[oh8eleven]

After serving with the Marines during World War II, Ford starred in 1946 as a small-time gambler in "Gilda," opposite Rita Hayworth.
It doesn't get any better than that. Semper Fi ...

[cotton1706]

Not to mention Superman's earth father.

[lentulusgracchus]

I just mentioned in an online post the other day his role in a 1970 TV-movie potboiler, The Brotherhood of the Bell, with Will Geer and Rosemary Forsyth and Dean Jagger as the heavy, which depicted a college fraternity that resembled Yale's Skull and Bones.

Amazing how many people remember that chestnut. Must have, um, "rung a bell" with people.

[Waverunner]

The Brotherhood of the Bell, one of the best made for tv conspiracy movies ever, and Cowboy with Jack Lemmon, one of the best tenderfoot becomes a cowboy movies ever made. And any WW2 movie he starred in. His low key competence is surely lacking in Hollywood today.
RIP ...

[LS]

Was a Lt. Commander in WW II AND in Vietnam, as part of the reserves, as I recall.

[lone star annie]

Brotherhood of the Bell is not too far from reality. Great movie that depicts how the powerful can really control things.

RIP Glen Ford.

[gramho12]

And most importantly he served as a Marine in WWII during the height of his career. A patriot indeed.

[gramho12]

Excellent actor, and a very handsome sexy man.

The last of the really handsome and manly men of that era. I miss them all, there is really no one today that exemplifies masculinity and grace at the same time as the great leading men of the golden days of film.

[Vineyard]

Very correct; he retired with the rank of CAPTAIN - USNR.

Sorry to see that the article failed to reflect his very honorable service to our country.

Mike

[lakeman]

RIP marine

[Bigh4u2]

"Hollywood's historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre"

I thought that was 'Grauman's Chinese Theatre'??!!!!!

[Broker]

Motion Picture Pioneer = John Ford, Metal of Freedom

[dighton]

Some pix of Grauman’s Egyptian and Grauman’s Chinese.

RIP Glenn Ford.