Before he was a household name, Harrison Ford did everything from comedies to war dramas. We take a look back at some of his quirkiest roles.
It’s hard to think of a time when Harrison Ford wasn’t one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Although certain actors fade in popularity over the years, Ford’s stardom never seems to wane, due to the sheer amount of all-time classics that he appeared in during his golden years.
Harrison Ford Does Comedy It’s strange to juxtapose Ford’s role in Star Wars and its sequels with the sort of anti-establishment, yet mainstream roles he was taking on earlier in his filmography. Although the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises include some of the greatest films in motion picture history, they also led to a wave of commercialism and the rise of franchise filmmaking that became popular in the 1980s.
Ford gave a much more outrageous turn in Jeremy Kagan’s 1977 film Heroes, which marked an intended “dramatic turn” in the career of Henry Winkler following his role on Happy Days. It’s ironic now in retrospect that Winkler is intended to be the serious lead and Ford is the comedic relief, but at the time, Ford was simply taking the roles that he could get upon his return to acting.
Force 10 From Navarone isn’t a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but any fan of classic action films should enjoy getting to see Shaw and Ford chew the scenery alongside Carl Weathers, Barbara Bach, Franco Nero, and Richard Kiel. It hails from Guy Hamilton, director of James Bond classics like Goldfinger and Live and Let Die, and so the action sequences themselves are all top-notch.
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