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Birthdate: May 1, 1916
Death date: August 30, 2006
Glenn Ford
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
No Reviews
2
1940s
2.6301
27
1950s
2.6423
37
1960s
2.4122
21
1970s
2.3011
6
1980s
0.6201
3
1990s
No Reviews
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7719
2.7719
Glenn Ford Movie Rankings
1
3.7628An alien child is sent to Earth from his dying home planet to help preserve his people. When Clark discovers he has super powers he vows to use his abilities to stop evil and destruction. When Clark meets Lex Luther it seems he may have met his match. ...more about Superman
DVD from $5.99
(18 sellers)
2
3.1877Detective Dave Bannion investigates a police sergeant's suicide. Strictly routine...until a B-girl claiming to have evidence is found murdered, and Bannion's superiors order him off the case. ...more about Big Heat
DVD from $13.34
(11 sellers)
3
3.0103Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. ...more about Gilda
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
4
2.8738
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley. ...more about Experiment in Terror
- Not Available on DVD
5
2.8409
The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. ...more about Midway
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
6
2.7990
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. ...more about Texas
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
7
2.7338
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. ...more about Cowboy
DVD from $8.91
(10 sellers)
8
2.6768
The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. ...more about Cimarron
Actor Awards
- Laurel Awards - Top Action Performance
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.6362
After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. ...more about 3:10 to Yuma
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
10
2.5859
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. ...more about Man from Colorado
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
11
2.5844
Following the plot of the opera, "Carmen," this story follows the wild gypsy's adventures as a siren and bandit. Carmen (Rita Hayworth) lures an innocent soldier (Glenn Ford) to his ruin, getting him expelled from the army. ...more about Loves of Carmen
DVD from $3.99
(10 sellers)
12
2.5804
The Original 50's classic about a decent middle aged school teacher who goes to teach in an unruly high school filled with thugs led by Vic Morrow. This is the original film that has had several unofficial updated remakes over the years. ...more about Blackboard Jungle
DVD from $8.00
(14 sellers)
13
2.5171
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. ...more about Pocketful of Miracles
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
17
2.4013
A satire on America's very own drive of a world changer: One year after world war ii, Captain Fisby is sent to the village Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. First step is to build a school - but the witty folks know what they really want. ...more about Teahouse of the August Moon
DVD from $38.35
(12 sellers)
18
2.3514
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. ...more about Happy Birthday to Me
DVD from $17.99
(2 sellers)
19
2.3452
Eddie thinks it is time for his father to remarry. However, in his opinion his father's taste in women leaves much to be desired. He believes the girl next door would be a far better choice... ...more about Courtship of Eddie's Father
DVD from $6.99
(10 sellers)
20
2.3437
In order to get an idea of how he and his church can better serve their community, a pastor visits a young girl who is incarcerated in the local jail. ...more about City Story
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2573
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. ...more about Interrupted Melody
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2488
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. ...more about Desperadoes
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
23
2.2433
Engineer Jeff, returning from Korea, falls in Love to his co-worker Carl's wife Vicky, who both commited a murder. Naturally Carl gets jealous but can't say a thing because Jeff knows a little bit about the case. ...more about Human Desire
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1885
Found injured by rancher Shep Horgan, Jubal Troop is offered a job as cowhand and soon gains Shep's trust. ...more about Jubal
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
25
2.1195
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Mexico, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca. ...more about Plunder of the Sun
DVD from $7.18
(9 sellers)
26
2.1186
Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. ...more about Stolen Life
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.0547
Mike Lambert, unemployed mining engineer, arrives in a small town with a bang when the brakes fail on the truck he's driving. After meeting seductive Paula at the La Paloma Cafe, he finds himself in trouble with the law. ...more about Framed
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.9620
A Union ex-officer plans to sell up to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancee, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bully-boy tactics make him think again. ...more about Violent Men
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
29
1.9590
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. ...more about Fastest Gun Alive
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9529
When Steve Emery arrives in Trinidad at the urgent request of his brother, he is stunned to find that his brother has not only been murdered, but that his brother's wife Chris is succumbing to the seduction attempts of the murderer. ...more about Affair in Trinidad
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.8766
The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the "Dutchman" (German) of Arizona's notorious Lost Dutchman gold mine, found treasure and love and lost them again. ...more about Lust for Gold
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
33
1.8752
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. ...more about Man from the Alamo
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.7672
The commander of an American submarine during World War II sets out to destroy the Japanese Aircraft carrier which launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. ...more about Torpedo Run
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.7291
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. ...more about Appointment in Honduras
DVD from $4.99
(6 sellers)
38
1.7227
Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. ...more about Dear Heart
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.6803
The Bumsteads decide to spend a safe and sane 4th of July at Aunt Hannah's ranch. After missing their station, they hitch a ride with a young couple who are getting ready to elope. ...more about Blondie Plays Cupid
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.6378
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. ...more about Sheepman
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.4689
The White Tower, a Matterhorn-like mountain in the Swiss Alps, has never been climbed. Carla Alten's father, a famous mountaineer, died in a long-ago attempt. ...more about White Tower
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.3528
Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash. ...more about Fate Is the Hunter
- Not Available on DVD
52
Jobless Betty Andrews (Rochelle Hudson), although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis (Freida Inescort) and a reporter, Jim Brent (Glenn Ford) on her behalf, is ...more about Convicted Woman
- Not Available on DVD
55
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. ...more about Destroyer
- Not Available on DVD
57
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. ...more about Don't Go Near the Water
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
61
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. ...more about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
DVD from $12.06
(2 sellers)
62
A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction. ...more about Virus
- Not Available on DVD
63
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford. ...more about Gallant Journey
- Not Available on DVD
64
The western town of Headstone is being besieged by the outlaw Killer Pete and his gang. Arriving on the same stagecoach are the new Sheriff and easterner Belinda Pendergast, known as Bill. ...more about Go West
- Not Available on DVD
65
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). ...more about Green Glove
DVD from $5.00
(4 sellers)
66
This public service short is presented by the Variety Club of Northern California. 'Glenn Ford' (qv) introduces his wife, 'Eleanor Powell (I)' (qv), who asks moviegoers to contribute to the Variety Club's efforts to help blind babies and their families. ...more about Have Faith In Our Children
- Not Available on DVD
68
In the small western town Vinegarroon the conflict between cattle and sheep breeders escalates. When a stranger appears in the town, the ranchers suspect he's a gun man, hired by the sheep breeders. ...more about Heaven with a Gun
- Not Available on DVD
70
Master Sgt. "Murph" Savage impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers to bravely fight their way out of a Nazi ensnarement. He might succeed if he can avoid the one soldier who knows his true identity. ...more about Imitation General
- Not Available on DVD
71
Air Force Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick meets and marries a beautiful model, Maggie Putnam, on the eve of being shipped off to Spain. When the new Mrs. ...more about It Started with a Kiss
- Not Available on DVD
73
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. ...more about Love Is a Ball
- Not Available on DVD
75
Documentary short film depicting the training of United States Marine Corps recruits at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, at the height of the Vietnam war. ...more about MCRD
- Not Available on DVD
78
Tim Kerry, a cop on the beat in Hell's Kitchen, welcomes his grown son Ritzy home after a two-year prison term. Ritzy's former friends and his ex-girl Julia join with Tim in hoping he'll go straight. ...more about My Son Is Guilty
- Not Available on DVD
79
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81
This unique and thought-provoking documentary delves into the conflict between the art and business of filmmaking as it is enacted on the "battlefield" of Hollywood. ...more about Our Hollywood Education
- Not Available on DVD
82
In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. ...more about Is Paris Burning?
DVD from $7.18
(11 sellers)
83
Dr. Reuben is an angry loner living in a tiny Mexican border town. Soon after a man dying of rabies staggers into town, Dr. Reuben himself is bitten by the same rabid dog. ...more about Rage
- Not Available on DVD
84
When his son Andy (Bobby Clark) is kidnapped and held for ransom, David Stannard (Glenn Ford) liquidates his assets to meet the half-million dollar demand. A casual remark by newspaper reporter Charlie Telfer (Leslie Nielsen) makes him change his mind. ...more about Ransom!
- Not Available on DVD
85
Jimmy Clayton is a race car driver who has visions of the murders that have been happening locally. The police do not believe him and he is not aware of what is happening to him. ...more about Raw Nerve
- Not Available on DVD
86
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. ...more about Redhead and the Cowboy
- Not Available on DVD
88
Ben and Howdy are a couple of aging cowboys who bust broncos out of Sedona for Jim Ed Love, a slick operator if ever there was one. Sisters, Meg and Agatha, have their eyes on Ben and Howdy, but the boys aren't ready to settle down yet. ...more about Rounders
- Not Available on DVD
92
Ralph Staub spends his time in this edition of Screen Snapshots dropping in on various Hollywood people and their children, including Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, George Montgomery and Dinah Shore, and Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell. ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Small Fry
- Not Available on DVD
93
In this entry of Columbia's Screen Snapshots series (Columbia production number 5858), Glenn Ford visits Ralph Staub to promote his latest Columbia film, and Staub shows him some filmed skits footage from some radio shows. ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians
- Not Available on DVD
94
Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man who not only framed him, but committed the crime. ...more about Secret of Convict Lake
- Not Available on DVD
96
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. ...more about Smith!
- Not Available on DVD
98
During the Civil War Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way they kill a Union courier who has a message that the war is over. ...more about Time for Killing
- Not Available on DVD
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