Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. His father was Irish, his mother Russian-Jewish. He was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock...See full bio »
[on what he looks for in a film] I look for those things that I can have an emotional investment in. ... I disadvantage myself by thinking, 'Oh, this is what I'm looking for, this is what I like.' I don't know what I like. I like what I like. ... being an assistant storyteller, helping create characters that bring a story dramatic shape and dimension.
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Piloted his helicopter to rescue dehydrated 20-year-old hiker Sarah George from Table Mountain near his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [31 July 2000]
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