George Ford

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

121

Movies

116

Born: March 31, 1905 – July 30, 1983
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Tall distinguished looking George Ford started out as a contract player in the early 1930s but like most contract players, it didn't work out. Never discouraged, Ford moved on to roles as dancers, socialites, and chorus boys. Ford would occasionally have dialog but he was constantly used for his good looking appearance and his unique ability to ballroom dance. During the 1950s, Ford developed a reputation for being one of the best dancers in Hollywood. Musicals weren't his specialty though, it was the nice ballrooms and the socialite parties. He continue to work these throughout his career. He also managed to appear in a lot of various war films playing soldiers and high ranking military officers. With the popularity of television westerns increase, Ford found himself frequently appearing at square dances and as a dancer to show the leading ladies off. Eventually he became a regular townsman for a few years on Gunsmoke appearing in the bar scenes and playing bank tellers and town dignitaries. By 1968, Ford's work started to decrease and he decided to retire to Colorado where he could take up skiing and where he and his wife regularly competed in ballroom dancing contest. Like many extras, Ford's talents were not known to the general film public but he leaves behind a legacy of making the other dancers he danced with look better than they were and a large amount of film work that can be appreciated by future generation.

Works

116 films

Singin' in the Rain

19528.1

White Christmas

19547.2

Some Like It Hot

19598.1

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

19537.3

Torn Curtain

19666.6

The Great Race

19657.1

Pillow Talk

19597.1

Cat Ballou

19656.4

The Enemy Below

19577.2

North to Alaska

19606.5

Warlock

19596.8

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

Dragonwyck

19466.6

Elmer Gantry

19607.3

Monsieur Verdoux

19477.7

The Band Wagon

19537.2

Imitation of Life

19597.4

The Buccaneer

19586.5

Angel Face

19537.1

Top Hat

19357.3

The Bad and the Beautiful

19527.3

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

19436.2

Cimarron

19606.2

The Country Girl

19547.0

The Opposite Sex

19565.4

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

19566.7

His Kind of Woman

19516.8

Love Affair

19397.0

Son of Flubber

19636.1

Lover Come Back

19617.0

The Glass Bottom Boat

19666.3

The Letter

19407.3

Raintree County

19576.4

Show Boat

19516.2

Seven Thieves

19606.6

It's Always Fair Weather

19556.9

Advise & Consent

19627.2

Man's Favorite Sport?

19647.0

Artists and Models

19556.7

The Last Hurrah

19587.2

Cult of the Cobra

19556.0

You Were Never Lovelier

19427.1

Hellzapoppin'

19417.2

The FBI Story

19596.1

Born to Be Bad

19506.0

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

19516.3

My Man Godfrey

19576.5

Riff-Raff

19476.2

Designing Woman

19576.7

The Thrill of It All

19637.1

The Eddy Duchin Story

19566.3

Born to Kill

19476.7

Black Angel

19466.1

The Gay Bride

19346.0

The Rack

19566.6

Two Weeks in Another Town

19625.9

The Man from Galveston

19635.6

The Silver Chalice

19544.5

It Started with a Kiss

19595.5

On Moonlight Bay

19516.5

Carefree

19386.7

Fate Is the Hunter

19646.5

Who Was That Lady?

19606.4

All Through the Night

19426.7

The Damned Don't Cry

19507.0

The Helen Morgan Story

19575.3

Wee Willie Winkie

19376.6

The Stooge

19516.7

Under the Yum Yum Tree

19636.1

City for Conquest

19406.9

Thunder Over the Plains

19535.6

The Hypnotic Eye

19605.8

Who Done It?

19427.0

Ransom!

19567.2

The Killer That Stalked New York

19506.2

Critic's Choice

19635.6

Law of the Lawless

19646.5

The Garment Jungle

19576.5

The Wet Parade

19326.2

Youngblood Hawke

19646.3

Roadblock

19515.9

Go Naked in the World

19615.1

Hollywood Party

19345.7

The Buster Keaton Story

19575.2

The Falcon Takes Over

19426.3

Lucky Me

19546.8

Winchester '73

19676.7

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Three for the Show

19555.9

Mississippi

19356.8

Bombardier

19435.7

The Turning Point

19526.3

A Lady Takes a Chance

19435.8

Sol Madrid

19686.9

The Square Jungle

19556.1

The Werewolf

19565.6

Broadway

19426.4

Slightly French

19497.5

My Forbidden Past

19515.5

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

19616.4

Heartbeat

19465.2

Holiday for Lovers

19596.3

Death in Small Doses

19575.1

Around the World

19436.3

Brave Warrior

19524.3

King of the Royal Mounted

19407.5

Callaway Went Thataway

19515.6

The Crowd Roars

19387.0

Vicki

19535.5

College Holiday

19365.7

Johnny Stool Pigeon

19496.3

Pawnee

19576.2

The Notorious Lone Wolf

19466.0

Eve Knew Her Apples

19455.6

Give Me Your Heart

19365.9

Beauty for the Asking

19395.7