Glenn Ford Movies

During my research...I found Glenn Ford A Life by his son, Peter, very useful.....well worth checking out.
During my research…I found the book, Glenn Ford A Life by his son, Peter, very useful…..well worth checking out.

Want to know the best Glenn Ford movies?  How about the worst Glenn Ford movies?  Curious about Glenn Ford’s box office grosses or which Glenn Ford movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Glenn Ford movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

One of our first requested pages (5 years and 2 website homes ago) was for Glenn Ford (1916-2006).  So why the delay?  The main reason is that we generally stay away from Columbia Pictures performers.  The reason for this reluctance, is the fact that it is almost impossible to find box office numbers for Columbia Pictures movies from 1930 to 1980.  Getting box office numbers is one of the most important factors in our rankings.  Recently we got another request for Ford.  A deeper look into Ford’s career showed that many of his movies made Variety’s Top Grossing yearly movie charts.  So Søren, Flora, William, Hinton66 and Tom….finally here is your requested page.

Glenn Ford (1916-2006) was a Canadian-born American Golden Globe® winning actor.  Ford’s acting career covered 7 decades…from the 1930s to the 1990s. His IMDb page shows 110 acting credits from 1937-1991. This page ranks Glenn Ford movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.

Glenn Ford in 1946's Gilda
Glenn Ford in 1946’s Gilda

Glenn Ford Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Glenn Ford Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Glenn Ford movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Glenn Ford movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Glenn Ford movies by domestic yearly box office rank or by trivia for that movie
  • Sort Glenn Ford movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Glenn Ford movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Glenn Ford movie won.
  • Sort Glenn Ford movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.

 

Glenn Ford in 1957's 3:10 To Yuma....our favorite Ford performance
Glenn Ford in 1957’s 3:10 To Yuma….our favorite Ford performance

Possibly Interesting Facts About Glenn Ford

1.  Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born in Quebec, Canada in 1916.   Ford was related to U.S. President Martin Van Buren.

2.  Glenn Ford’s path to stardom: 1.  After graduating high school started working in small theater groups. 2. Was taught horsemanship by Will Rogers.  3.  Performed with West Coast stage companies. 4.  Signed a movie contract with Columbia.  5.  After some weak B movies hit a homerun with 1941’s So Ends Our Night.  6.  After serving in the Marines during World War 2 he returned to movies.  7.  In 1946, Ford appeared in one of his most famous roles, Gilda.  Ford was a star the rest of his life.

3.  Gummo Marx helped get Glenn Ford his first Columbia movie contract.  Gummo was the 2nd youngest Marx Brother.

4.  Glenn Ford was never nominated for an Academy Award®.  For more on this please visit our Classic Actors Who Got Hosed By The Academy page.

5.  Glenn Ford did get nominated for 3 Golden Globe® awards.  He received nominations for 1956’s The Teahouse of the August Moon and 1957’s Don’t Go Near The Water.  He won the Golden Globe® Best Actor for 1961’s A Pocketful of Miracles.

6.  Glenn Ford was married 4 times.  His first marriage to singer, dancer, actress Eleanor Powell was from 1943 to 1959.  They had one child….Peter Ford who became an actor and writer.

7.  Glenn Ford is credited with being the fastest “gun” in Hollywood westerns, able to draw and fire in 0.4 seconds.

8.  Glenn Ford was among Hollywood’s Top 10 box office stars 3 times:  He ranked 5th in 1956, 1st in 1958, and 6th in 1959.

9.  Glenn Ford appeared in 5 movies with Rita Hayworth: The Lady in Question (1940), Affair in Trinidad (1952), The Loves of Carmen (1948), The Money Trap (1965) and of course Gilda (1946).  The Ford/Hayworth team is one of the greatest in movie history.

10. Check out Glenn Ford‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Finally:  Just want to take a minute to acknowledge a very awesome book on Glenn Ford.  Glenn Ford A Life by Peter Ford is a fascinating read.  Book offers a look at both Ford’s screen life and his off screen personal life.  If you like Glenn Ford then you have to check out this book.  Glenn Ford A Life.

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  1. Hi, Bruce.

    I watched a couple of Glenn Ford comedies for the first time recently that I had recorded on PVR:

    One was his Golden Globes nominated Don’t Go Near the Water, a delightful service comedy with a lot of great supporting players.

    The other was the comedy Young Man with Ideas, a comedy which was fun, although not as fun as Don’t Go Near the Water. I wrote a review of it on TCM where I had an interesting time with the editing feature……

    1. Hey Flora….thanks for the mini-reviews on Don’t Go Near The Water and Young Man With Ideas. I will have to check out your review on TCM and the movie. Thanks for the update.

    1. I agree Carol Ann….this page has been a nice surprise with lots of comments and views…..thinking I should have done a page on him a long time ago.

  2. I added It Started With a Kiss to my seen list of Glenn Ford movies today. It was fun, but I prefer his other movie with Debbie better.

    I have also recorded Glenn Ford movies Don’t Go Near The Water and Young Man With Ideas which I have never seen.

    Cheers,

    Flora

    1. Hey Flora….thanks for the update. Don’t Go Near The Water got Ford one of his Golden Globe nominations….hopefully it will be a good one. I have not heard much about Young Man With Ideas….hoping the same think for that one too. Enjoy them whenever you get the chance to watch them.

        1. It was published on February 6th-you will have to go deep into that thread as it is very popular. You will be able to notice it as having a special look to it as it is contained in a bubble.

  3. No Blondie Plays Cupid featuring Glenn. His frequent femme fatale Rita Hayworth is in Blondie on a Budget. Of course as you say they’re Columbia and B films. I’ve never seen box office for any of the 28 Blondie films (1938 to 1950).

    1. Hey Dan. Yep I had no luck with Blondie Plays Cupid. I got lucky with Blondie on a Budget when I was doing the Hayworth page. I have been trying to do a Peter Lorre page for awhile…..but like the Blondie movies…..there is little information out there on his Mr. Moto movies…which makes doing a Lorre page very difficult when you can not include his most famous movie series. Thanks for the comment.

      1. There’s no info even on Charlie Chan flics from the same studio (Fox) and later Monogram and I think there are 48 of them.

    1. Hey OU812…Van Halen fan? Yep …Glenn Ford had a pretty stellar movie career….with the 1956 to 1959 years being his peak. Thanks for stopping by.

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