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- While attending Santa Monica High School, Glen was active in school drama productions with other future actors such as James Griffith. After graduation around 1934, he began working in small theatre groups.
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
May 3, 2022 · Immediately after graduation, Ford joined a theatre group, West Coast, in Santa Monica. He traveled with the group and acted in several plays. Later, in 1937, he landed a minor part in the short film Night in Manhattan .
- Anil Pradhan
His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school, followed by acting in West Coast, a traveling theater company. Ford was discovered in 1939 by Tom Moore, a talent scout for 20th Century Fox. He subsequently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures the same year.
- May 1, 1916
- August 30, 2006
His father was with the Canadian Pacific Railway and his family also owned a paper mill in the village of Glenford, where his father was born. He took his stage name after his father's birthplace. Ford moved to Los Angeles at the age of eight, and later went to Santa Monica High School.
After Ford graduated from Santa Monica High School, he began working in small theatre groups. Ford later commented that his railroad executive father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, but told him, “It’s all right for you to try to act, if you learn something else first.
After graduating he started working in small local theaters. Glenn Ford interrupted his actor career in 1942 to enlist as a volunteer in the Marine Corps of the United States during World War II. Ford was assigned in 1943 to active duty in San Diego Base.
Jul 29, 2019 · Once he graduated, he worked in different theater groups, in addition to working several odd jobs. One job, however, had him working with Will Rogers, who taught him horsemanship. While pursuing acting, Ford also learned several other trades and tasks thanks to the advice of his father.
