Canadian-Born Actor Glenn Ford Dead At 90

Canadian-born actor Glenn Ford was found dead in his home on Wednesday.   He was 90.

Ford starred in popular films like The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda, Superman, and The Big Heat

Police Sgt. Terry Nutall confirmed that foul play was not suspected.   Ford, who was born in Quebec in 1916, suffered a series of strokes in the 1990s and was struggling with health problems.   He couldn’t make a 90th-birthday tribute May 1 at Hollywood’s historic Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, but sent a videotaped message saying, “I wish I were up and around but I’m doing the best that I can…There’s so much I have to be grateful for.”

Ford appeared in scores of films during his 53-year Hollywood career, with roles ranging from romance to comedy.  

He was also an avid sportsman with a lifelong passion for horse-riding and polo and worked well into his 70’s before health problems overcame him.   In 1992 he ended up in critical condition followed a series of blood clots.  

“Noel Coward once told me: ‘You will know you’re old when you cease to be amazed.’ Well, I can still be amazed,” he said in a 1981 interview.

“Acting is just being truthful,” he said on another occasion.

“I have to play myself. I’m not an actor who can take on another character, like Laurence Olivier.”

“The worst thing I could do would be to play Shakespeare.”

Ford married actress-dancer Eleanor Powell in 1943 and had a son Peter.   They divorced in 1959.  A 1965 marriage to actress Kathryn Hays ended quickly. In 1977, he wed model Cynthia Hayward, who was 32 years younger. They divorced in 1984.


The Films Of Glenn Ford

Raw Nerve (1991)

Superman (1978)
“Once an Eagle” (1976) (TV mini-series)
Midway (1976)
Santee (1973)

Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Smith! (1969)
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
The Last Challenge (1967)
A Time for Killing (1967)
Rage (1966)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
The Money Trap (1965)
The Rounders (1965)
Dear Heart (1964)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Advance to the Rear (1964)
Love Is a Ball (1963)
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
Experiment in Terror (1962)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Cry for Happy (1961)
Cimarron (1960)

The Gazebo (1959)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Torpedo Run (1958)
Imitation General (1958)
The Sheepman (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Jubal (1956)
Ransom! (1956)
Trial (1955)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Violent Men (1955)
The Americano (1955)
Human Desire (1954)
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
Time Bomb (1953)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Young Man in a Hurry (1952)
The Green Glove (1952)
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
Follow the Sun (1951)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
The Flying Missile (1950)
Convicted (1950)
The White Tower (1950)
 

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Lust for Gold (1949)
The Undercover Man (1949)
The Return of October (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
The Man from Colorado (1948)
The Mating of Millie (1948)
Framed (1947)
Gallant Journey (1946)
A Stolen Life (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Destroyer (1943)
The Desperadoes (1943)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Go West, Young Lady (1941)
Texas (1941)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
The Lady in Question (1940)
Babies for Sale (1940)
Men Without Souls (1940)
Convicted Woman (1940)

My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
Night in Manhattan (1937)

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