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Acting

Glenn Ford

Career: Active from 1939 to 1991, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 97
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Big Heat
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 74 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Glenn Ford Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
0.9, average 2.0
Uncanny
1.5, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Moral Dilemma 8
Character-Driven 8
Social Commentary 8
Classic Hollywood 7
Moral Ambiguity 7
Classic Western 6
Historical Drama 6
Moral Conflict 6
Character Study 5
Western 5
Film Noir 4
Psychological Tension 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

115

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

2 titles · average score 43

Raw Nerve

43

as Captain Gavin

Final Verdict

as Rev. Rogers

1980s

7 titles · average score 53

Border Shootout

as Sheriff Danaher

Casablanca Express

33

as Major Gen. Williams

My Town

as Lucas Wheeler

Happy Birthday to Me

40

as Dr. David Faraday

Great White Death

as Narrator

Virus

61

as President Richardson

Superman II

77

as Jonathan Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970s

24 titles · average score 62

The Visitor

64

as Det. Jake Durham

Beggarman, Thief

TV show · as David Donnelly

The Sacketts

76

TV show · as Tom Sunday

Superman

80

as Pa Kent

Evening in Byzantium

TV show · as Jesse Craig

Once an Eagle

74

TV show · as George Caldwell

Midway

54

as Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

The Family Holvak

TV show

The Disappearance of Flight 412

48

as Colonel Pete Moore

Santee

44

as Santee

Cade's County

65

TV show · as Sheriff Sam Cade

The Brotherhood of the Bell

58

as Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson

1960s

20 titles · average score 57

Heaven with a Gun

60

as Jim Killan

Smith!

57

as Smith

Day of the Evil Gun

56

as Lorn Warfield

A Time for Killing

36

as Tom Wolcott

The Last Challenge

51

as Marshal Dan Blaine

The Rounders

56

as Ben Jones

Fate Is the Hunter

53

as Sam McBane

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

66

as Tom Corbett

Experiment in Terror

70

as John Ripley

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

56

as Julio Desnoyers

Pocketful of Miracles

61

as Dave 'The Dude' Conway

Cimarron

59

as Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat

1950s

35 titles · average score 62

The Gazebo

69

as Elliott Nash

Cowboy

68

as Tom Reese

The Sheepman

66

as Jason Sweet

3:10 to Yuma

81

as Ben Wade

Jubal

86

as Jubal Troop

The Fastest Gun Alive

70

as George Temple / George Kelby, Jr.

Blackboard Jungle

71

as Richard Dadier

Trial

72

as David Blake

The Violent Men

67

as John Parrish

Human Desire

65

as Jeff Warren

The Big Heat

88

as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion

The Man from the Alamo

82

as John Stroud

1940s

25 titles · average score 65

Lust for Gold

65

as Jacob 'Dutch' Walz

The Undercover Man

63

as Frank Warren

Mr. Soft Touch

67

as Joe Miracle

The Man from Colorado

57

as Col. Owen Devereaux

The Mating of Millie

73

as Doug Andrews

The Loves of Carmen

59

as Don José

Framed

64

as Mike Lambert

Gilda

84

as Johnny Farrell

A Stolen Life

70

as Bill Emerson

The Desperadoes

69

as Cheyenne Rogers

Destroyer

65

as Mickey Donohue

Texas

67

as Tod Ramsey

1930s

2 titles · average score 48

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

48

as Joe Riley

My Son Is Guilty

as Barney