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.
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  • 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. I just finished watching The Secret of Convict Lake and logged a review on Letterboxd. It was available on Youtube. It is listed 37 on your rating scale.

    Still have not watched The Trial which is listed as number 37.

    The Green Glove is available to me via youtube. I look forward to watching it.

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  2. I rewatched The Rounders earlier today as well as a couple of other westerns with Glenn Ford plus a B western called Quantril’s Raiders starring Steve Cochran:

    I cannot help but make another joke-like ribbing to film critic Richard Roeper who called Glenn For a second tier movie star:

    Look at the billing:
    GLENN FORD is listed BEFORE HENRY FONDA in The Rounders.

    Some second tier stardom?

    No.

    Second billing to Glenn Ford did not bother Henry Fonda.

    As Fonda’s character Howdy says: “Anything suits you just tickles me plum to death.”

    That line of dialogue which Henry Fonda repeats often in The Rounders reminds me of James Garner’s running joke line in Support Your Local Sheriff:
    “Basically, I ‘m just on my way to Australia.”
    LOL.

    ‘tickles me plum to death.”

    Great line.

    Watching TheRounders looks like the two leading men were friends and got along great together off screen.

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    1. That new to me Glenn Ford film today was Heaven With a Gun. I wrote a letterboxd review of it. It co-starred Keith Carradine and Carolyn Jones and a lot of famous nameless faces. Carradine met his wife on the set of the film.

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    2. Hey Flora….glad you enjoyed The Rounders…great quotes from Garner and Fonda…..as for Glenn Ford tier level….I think in the 1950s he was a top tier actor for sure….but like 99% of movie stars, his beginning and ending of his career were probably not top tier. In my mind anybody that makes it to the top tier is a star…..how long they stay a top tier is the one interesting questing in my mind. Thanks for a great comment.

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  3. Just finished watching Love Is A Ball which I recorded earlier today as part of the Star of the Month look at Charles Boyer.

    It stars Glenn Ford and Hope Lange.

    Glad to watch another new to me Glenn Ford film.

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    3. 1 I saw this film when I was serving in the Armed Forces in England and it is one of my favourite Glenn Ford non-Cowboy roles.

      2 Over her it was called All this and Money Too.

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  4. 1 I only just picked up your comment about Cowboy and it proves Steve’s point about how if we blink we miss some very interesting comments. I may be at a greater disadvantage than the rest of you in that respect as I live in a very different time zone. Who knows what exciting things you and Flora and the rest are saying while I’m asleep but which remain unknown to me !

    2 Lemmon’s character in Cowboy was based on a real life Irish newspaper editor, journalist and short-story author called Frank Harris. who also wrote a best-selling book called My Life and Loves which was banned in some countries because it was considered too explicit in those days.

    3 During one phase of his life Harris apparently did a Charlie Bill Stewart and went out West for a time and Cowboy was supposed to reflect some of his adventures while he was there as recounted by him.

    4 I can clearly recall film critics at the time telling us to take most of Cowboy with a pinch of salt as the critics claimed the real-life Harris was a compulsive liar about virtually every topic under discussion.

    5 So it’s no wonder that you found the Lemmon part unbelievable but Jack would probably have known that too. Given that Harris apparently DID Go West for a time whatever he got up to when he was out there I often wondered if that’s what attracted Glenn to the film because of his own belief that Charlie Bill too had done a Harris.

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    1. Hey Bob.
      1. I am about to make the comment box bigger….seems lately the comments have been coming fast and furious…which is a good thing.
      2. That is interesting that Lemmon’s character was based on a real person…maybe seeing Lemmon as a cowboy was the probably….grew up watching him in lots of non-westerns….although Cowboy was one of his first movies…it might be the last “new to me” Lemmon movie that I watched.
      3. Sounds like Frank Harris was a real character…I give him credit for writing the book…and having a movie based on that book is pretty impressive.
      4. It sounds like Harris did some of the stuff….but to me it seems Lemmon went from a stooge to an awesome cowboy in one cattle drive….maybe that is the part that I found the hardest to believe.
      5. I get most of my movies from my library…Cowboy is normally sitting there on the shelf ready to go….I might be picking it up again.
      Thanks for the trivia about Cowboy.

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      1. 1 I forgot to mention that the screenplay for Cowboy was written by our old pal Dalton Trumbo. The book upon which it was based was Out West with Frank Harris. Jack actually used Frank’s own name in the film.

        2 ObviouslyTrumbo wasn’t mentioned at the time [1958] but the quality still shone through. A leading film critic in those days was Margaret Hinxman and she dubbed the film “A western with spurs on.”

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        1. The more I read about Dalton Trumbo the more he impresses me. It makes me want to watch the movie again…..plus his Mexican bull fighting movie is one that I have not seen. I imagine by the time 1958 got around the Blacklist grip was starting to really really loosen.
          Thanks for the information.

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  5. Okay I had left a large comment and hit the wrong button and it disappeared before I published it.

    So I won’t repeat it.

    But in regards to the added films:

    I have NOT seen some of them. Most of these are either recorded and waiting for me like Trial.

    Others like Superman did not interest me until I knew he was in it.

    And then there are movies that are difficult to find or rated adult/x for violence.

    Overall, however, I have still seen 90% of his big screen films among the films I have been able to find.

    And regarding the added 16, I believe I have sen about half of them at least.

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