What was the name of the TV series that starred Glenn Ford
"were Westerns. He suggested doing a Western series, instead, which resulted in the ""modern-day Western"" series, ""Cade's County"". Ford played southwestern Sheriff Cade for one season (1971–1972) in a mix of police mystery and western drama. In ""The Family Holvak"" (1975–1976), Ford portrayed a Depression-era preacher in a family drama, reprising the same character he had played in the TV film, ""The Greatest Gift"". In 1978 Ford was host, presenter and narrator of the disaster documentary series 'When Havoc Struck'. In 1981, Ford co-starred with Melissa Sue Anderson in the slasher film ""Happy Birthday to Me"". In 1991, Ford agreed"
"one of the most popular stars in the US: Glenn Ford Gwyllyn Samuel Newton ""Glenn"" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship. His career lasted more than 50 years. Although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age. Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1, 1916 in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, the son of Hannah Wood (""née"" Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Through his father,"
"combat camera crew from the demilitarized zone south to the Mekong Delta. For his service in Vietnam, the Navy awarded him a Navy Commendation Medal. He finally retired from the Naval Reserve in the 1970s at the rank of captain. He was awarded the Marine Corps Reserve Ribbon, which recognizes those who spend 10 years of honorable reserve service. In 1971, Ford signed with CBS to star in his first television series, a half-hour comedy/drama titled ""The Glenn Ford Show"". However, CBS head Fred Silverman noticed that many of the featured films being shown at a Glenn Ford film festival"
"Glenn Ford Gwyllyn Samuel Newton ""Glenn"" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born American actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship. His career lasted more than 50 years. Although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age. Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1, 1916 in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, the son of Hannah Wood (""née"" Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Through his father, Ford was a great-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister,"
"as a television feature film, occasionally broadcast by independent television stations. The musical theme for the show was composed by Henry Mancini. The title music appeared in an expanded version in the album ""Big Screen, Little Screen"". Cade's County Cade's County is a modern-day Western/crime drama which aired Sundays at 9:30 pm (EST) on CBS during the 1971–1972 television season. There were 24 episodes. ""Cade's County"" starred well-known Hollywood actor Glenn Ford as Sam Cade, the sheriff of the fictional Madrid County, a vast and sparsely populated desert area that was apparently located well inland in the American Southwest. The"
"they undergo an arduous debriefing and brainwashing at the hands of their somewhat mysterious captors. It uses on-screen time stamp titles to lend the feeling of a documentary, similar to the 1971 film ""The Andromeda Strain"". After its broadcast premiere, ""The Disappearance of Flight 412"" was destined for late-night TV and lately, home media release. Later reviews have relegated the film to an also-ran due to its ""cheesy"" production values with a reliance on stock footage. The Disappearance of Flight 412 The Disappearance of Flight 412 is a 1974 made-for-television science fiction drama film starring Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David"
"Cade's County Cade's County is a modern-day Western/crime drama which aired Sundays at 9:30 pm (EST) on CBS during the 1971–1972 television season. There were 24 episodes. ""Cade's County"" starred well-known Hollywood actor Glenn Ford as Sam Cade, the sheriff of the fictional Madrid County, a vast and sparsely populated desert area that was apparently located well inland in the American Southwest. The state in which it was located was never mentioned; it could have been California (where much of the location filming took place), Utah, Nevada, New Mexico or Arizona. Cade made occasional references to going to ""Capital City"""
"Krypton. On that mantel is a picture of Glenn Ford as Pa Kent. In 1950, Ford played the title role in ""The Adventures of Christopher London,"" created by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by William N. Robson. London was a private investigator in the weekly adventure series, which ran on Sundays at 7 p.m. on the NBC radio network between January and April 1950. Ford's first wife was actress and dancer Eleanor Powell (1943–1959), with whom he had his only child, actor Peter Ford (born 1945). The couple appeared together on screen just once, in a short film produced in"
"for only two seasons. Its first season was broadcast from New York City on NBC with such actors as Ed Begley, Shirley Booth, Gary Merrill, Everett Sloane and Vicki Vola. This season ran from October 5, 1947 to June 27, 1948. Due to poor ratings, Ford moved the show to Hollywood and CBS for the second season, where top Hollywood actors headed the casts. This season, which lasted from October 8, 1948 to July 1, 1949, received much higher ratings. However, with television rising in popularity, Ford decided to end its radio show and focus solely on television. The first"
"name came from his father's hometown of Glenford, Alberta. His first major movie part was in the 1939 film, ""Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence"". Top Hollywood director John Cromwell was impressed enough with his work to borrow him from Columbia for the independently produced drama, ""So Ends Our Night"" (1941), where Ford delivered a poignant portrayal of a 19-year-old German exile on the run in Nazi-occupied Europe. Working with Academy Award-winning Fredric March and wooing (onscreen) 30-year-old Margaret Sullavan, recently nominated for an Oscar, Ford's shy, ardent young refugee riveted attention even in such stellar company. ""Glenn Ford, a"
"The Disappearance of Flight 412 The Disappearance of Flight 412 is a 1974 made-for-television science fiction drama film starring Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David Soul and Guy Stockwell. The film was shown as an NBC World Premiere Movie in 1974. U.S. Air Force Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is the commander of the Whitney Air Force Base 458th Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To find the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412, with Captain Bishop (David Soul) as commander. Lt Podryski (Greg Mullavey), Capt Riggs (Robert F. Lyons), and Lt"
"Night Movie"" opened its fall schedule with the premiere of a low-budget, made-for-TV movie, rather than a proven Hollywood blockbuster guaranteed to lure mass viewership, it became CBS's way of declaring its commitment to product that, although cheaply manufactured, was nevertheless new and topical. In this case, the movie was ""The Brotherhood of the Bell"", and the film's star was Glenn Ford, a movie actor who had never appeared in a television-film. In fact, before shooting on the project even began, Ford had been warned by friends in the industry that he would hate the experience. Instead, the actor reported"
"hoping for, Ford had been serving his country for longer than it had technically been at war and was awarded several service medals for his three years in the Marines Reserve Corps: American Campaign Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal, created in 1945 for anyone who had been on active duty since December 1941. The most memorable role of Ford's career came with his first postwar film in 1946, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in ""Gilda"". This was Glenn Ford's second pairing with Hayworth; his first was in ""The Lady In Question"" (1940), a well-received"
"starred in several episodes of the syndicated 1957-1958 series ""The Silent Service"", a show dedicated to the US Navy's submarine service during World War II. He played Mr. Kelley in 15 episodes of ""The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"" and other classics like ""The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"", ""The Twilight Zone"", and ""Make Room for Daddy"". Over the years, Flynn achieved recognition in television, earning credits as a regular on William Bendix's ""The Life of Riley"" and on ""The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"". He appeared at least twice on NBC's ""The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford."""
"NBC from September 1958 to September 1960 and then moved to ABC, where it continued for another year. The series was produced by Blake Edwards, who also wrote and directed many of the episodes. The iconic theme music for the series was composed by Henry Mancini. On May 7, 1959, Stevens was a guest star on the NBC variety series ""The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford."" He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit based on ""Peter Gunn."" He sang on ""The Dinah Shore Chevy Show"" with Dinah Shore. During the run of ""Peter Gunn"" Stevens guest starred"
"a sophisticated Vienna-born expatriate, though Glenn Ford always denied any awareness of the latter in his character's fervent loyalty to his boss, who had unwittingly married the love of Johnny's life. The film was entered in the Cannes Film Festival, then in its first year. Ford went on to be a leading man opposite Hayworth in a total of five films. and the two, after their location romance (his marriage survived, hers did not) became lifelong friends and next-door neighbors. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Rudolph Mate, ""Gilda"" has endured as a classic of film noir. It has a"
"Leon Ford Leon Ford is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television and theatre productions. He is best known for his roles in the television series ""The Cooks"", ""Changi"" and the telemovie ""Stepfather of the Bride"". Ford portrayed 1st Lt. Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones in the Emmy award winning HBO miniseries ""The Pacific"", which follows the story of World War II Marines through different battles of the Pacific theater of war. . He has also appeared in many other television series including ""All Saints"", ""East West 101"" and ""McLeod's Daughters"", the 2005 movie ""The Great Raid"" and voiced a"
"the 1950s entitled ""Have Faith in Our Children"". When they married, Powell was more famous than Ford. Ford dated Christiane Schmidtmer during the mid-1960s, but subsequently married actress Kathryn Hays (1966–1969); Cynthia Hayward (1977–1984), and Jeanne Baus (1993–1994). All four marriages ended in divorce. Ford was not on good terms with his ex-wives, except for Cynthia Hayward, with whom he remained close until his death. He also had a long-term relationship with actress Hope Lange in the early 1960s, although they never married. At the height of his stardom, Glenn Ford supported the Democratic Party. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt"
"Glenn Ford comedy ""Advance to the Rear"" (1964), but as he had no more film offers, he turned to television, appearing in shows such as ""Bonanza"", ""The Andy Griffith Show"", ""McHale's Navy"", ""The Great Adventure"" and ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". In the next decade, Pearson narrated the film ""The Norseman"" (1978), a Viking saga starring Lee Majors and Cornel Wilde and, as expressions of sexuality became more free and frequent, he directed ""The Legend of Lady Blue"" (1978) and wrote ""Pro-Ball Cheerleader"" (1979), under the name A. Fabritzi. Pearson was also the narrator of many albums, including Rod McKuen's ""The Sea"""
"Stephen Sean Ford Stephen Sean Ford (formerly Lunsford; born November 25, 1989) is an American actor, writer, director and internet content producer. He played the titular character in The CW's """". Ford was born in Sacramento, California. According to Ford's interview with ""NerdSociety"", his “center of attention” mentality as a child caused his ""troublemaker"" reputation. To ease the situation, and to escape relentless bullying, he participated in various sports but ultimately acting and filmmaking provided an outlet for him to grown into himself. Ford's excited reputation regenerated as a means of self-expression that led to his interest in acting. Ford"
"series she was made to be far more ordinary. Her character departed from the series at the conclusion of the 1964 serial ""The Dalek Invasion of Earth"", but returned briefly for both the series's 20th-anniversary TV special, ""The Five Doctors"" (1983), and 30th-anniversary charity special, ""Dimensions in Time"" (1993). She appeared as a different character in the independent ""Doctor Who"" spin-off film """" (1995). Ford mostly stopped acting following an illness in 1977 which led to a dramatic weight reduction and the loss of her voice, (it recovered later). Since then, she since taught voice and presentation skills and dialogue"
"term during his disc jockey days on KXLA. In 1956 he released ""Hymns"", his first gospel music album, which remained on ""Billboard's"" Top Album charts for 277 consecutive weeks; his album ""Great Gospel Songs"" won a Grammy Award in 1964. After the NBC show ended, Ford moved his family to Portola Valley in Northern California. He also owned a cabin near Grandjean, Idaho, on the upper South Fork of the Payette River where he would regularly retreat. From 1962-65, Ford hosted a daytime talk/variety show, ""The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"" (later known as ""Hello, Peapickers"") from KGO-TV in San Francisco,"
"prolific, in Ford's early work he cast himself as George Armstrong Custer, Sherlock Holmes (with his younger brother as Dr. Watson) and Abraham Lincoln, a role in which he specialized. By 1912, Ford was directing alongside Thomas Ince. It rapidly became clear that Ince was routinely taking credit for Ford's work, so Ford moved to Universal in early 1913. His 1913 ""Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery"" was Universal's first serial, and the first of a string of very popular serials starring Ford's collaborator and lover Grace Cunard. The 1915 serial ""The Broken Coin"" was expanded from 15 to 22 episodes"
"Colton Ford Colton Ford (born October 12, 1962) is the stage name of the former American gay pornographic actor Glenn Soukesian, who returned to his original career path of singer and actor. As of May 2007, he resides in New York City. Colton Ford appeared in a dozen gay adult celebrated films. Notable performances include ""Conquered"" that earned him 2002 Grabby Awards for ""Best Group Sex Scene"", ""Gang Bang Café"" that nominated him for the 2003 GayVN Awards for ""Best Performers"" and his lead role in ""Colton"" for which he won ""Gay Performer of the Year"" during the 2003 GayVN"
"was a regular on this show and would later find his own success as a rock and roll singer and as an actor. In 1955, Powell made her last-ever film appearance when she appeared in ""Have Faith in Our Children"", a three-minute short film produced for the Variety Club of Northern California in which Powell asked viewers to donate to the charity. The short, which other than its title had no relation to the TV series, marked the only time Powell appeared on screen with Glenn Ford. Powell divorced Ford in 1959, and that year, encouraged by Peter, launched a"
"This?"", which co-starred friends and colleagues Joe Laurie, Jr. and Harry Hershfield. ""Can You Top This?"" ran on local radio in New York for two years until being picked up nationally by NBC, where it ran for another twelve years. There were two television versions of the show, the first version ran on ABC from October 1950 to March 1951; the second, which premiered January 26, 1970 (the day before Ford's death), aired in first-run syndication only eight months. Ford's first wife died in 1957. He married Louise Grace July 11, 1957. Ford died at Eastern Long Island Hospital in"
"Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda film of the same name. Patrick also served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard. Throughout the 1970s he portrayed Marathon John in commercials for Mars Inc's Marathon candy bar. Following work on his father's 1971 film ""Big Jake"", Wayne earned recognition in the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy ""Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger"" (1977), then in ""The People That Time Forgot"" (1977). Wayne also screen-tested for the title role of ""Superman"". He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley"
"Angeles, The Peter Ford Show. He is also the author of ""Glenn Ford: A Life"", a biography of his father published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Peter and his wife Lynda currently reside in Bigfork, Montana. Peter Ford (actor) Peter Newton Ford (born February 5, 1945) is a retired American actor, singer and former President and Co-Founder of Blackoak Development Company. Ford was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Canadian-American actor Glenn Ford and American actress-dancer Eleanor Powell. As a child Peter's interest in rock and roll music inadvertently contributed to ""Rock Around the Clock"" being chosen"
"The Ford Show The Ford Show (also known as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show) is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956, to June 29, 1961. The show was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, whose founders shared a last name with the host but had no known relation. Beginning in September 1958, the show began to be telecast in color. Ford first gained attention as the host of ""Hometown Jamboree"" in Los Angeles. In 1954,"
"A Time for Killing A Time for Killing is a 1967 Western film directed originally by Roger Corman but finished by Phil Karlson. Filmed in Panavision and Pathécolor, it stars Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, and Harrison Ford (credited as Harrison J. Ford) in his first credited film role. 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 bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves"
"of schematic. But Glenn Ford is in it, and he's so good in these type of adventure roles that he at least keeps the flawed pic entertaining."" The Green Glove The Green Glove (aka The White Road) is a 1952 French/American international co-production film noir directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and George Macready. Mike Blake (Glenn Ford) is an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try to recover a jewel-encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest"
"footage be used to expand the episode into a two-part story. The Colter Craven Story ""The Colter Craven Story"" is the November 23, 1960 black-and-white episode of the American television western series, ""Wagon Train"", which had an eight-season run from 1957 to 1965. Presented as the 9th installment of the hour-long program's 4th season, it is the third of four television series episodes directed by filmmaker John Ford, the only four-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Director. Cast with a collection of actors who repeatedly appeared in Ford's films and were known as the John Ford Stock Company,"
"to acting for a career. His first professional acting job was in an Off-Broadway production in 1939. In 1955, Ford played the bank president in the NBC comedy series ""Norby"". He became an ""overnight"" success at age 54 when he played Colonel John T. Hall opposite Phil Silvers on Silvers' ""The Phil Silvers Show"" TV show (often known as Sergeant Bilko or just Bilko). His signature role may well be the part of Mayor George Shinn, a befuddled politico in the film adaptation of the Broadway show ""The Music Man."" Ford played the role straight and received glowing reviews. The"