Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford was a Canadian-American actor whose career that lasted more than 50 years. Ford was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Some of his most significant roles were in Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955).

Ford received three Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy movie, winning for Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He also played Clark Kent's adoptive father in Superman (1978).

Five of his films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and Superman (1978).