But he always looked younger than he was - we'll give him that. With some good luck, he managed to impress George Lucas in an audition for the 1973 movie "American Graffiti." And just like that, Ford's career took off kind of like the Millenium Falcon. Ford has led two major franch...
Although Harrison Ford began taking flight training courses in the 1960s, he quit because he couldn't afford classes. Decades later, Ford bought a used Gulfstream II plane and completed his flight training. He has since purchased numerous vintage planes and served as chairman of the Young Eagles...
The actor, who reprises his role as Han Solo in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' crash-landed his single-engine, World War II-era plane in March.
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Ford’s rep issued a statement on the actor’s condition later on Thursday clarifying that he is expected to make a full recovery. “Harrison was flying a WW2 vintage plane today which experienced engine failure upon take off,” said the statement. “He had no other choice but to make an...
"Get off my plane!" Just reading that sentence, you can hear Harrison Ford barking the famous catchphrase at Gary Oldman during a climactic sequence in "Air Force One." It's a familiar line, since we've all seen the classic 1997 thriller about a president (Ford) thwarting the Russian ...
“One of the few pleasures of celebrity is rides that have come my way,” Ford says, as the pilots perform preflights nearby. “Like this morning, I’m really looking forward to flying with the AeroShell team. I’m riding everything from an F-16 to the Tiltrotor. It’s been a wonde...
Ford, who infamously wanted George Lucas to kill off Solo in "Return of the Jedi," had a "why not?" attitude about suiting back up as Solo. He wasn't surprised by Disney's Death Star-sized plan to revive the franchise after acquiring San Francisco-based Lucasfilm in 2012 f...
And I said, well, I’m going to, I’m going to take a couple weeks and get out of town. And I remember renting a cobalt blue Ford Mustang on a one-month rental and I grabbed a Bible. I grabbed a carton of Marlboro Reds. I grabbed a bottle of scotch. And I was just going ...
I said that might actually be kind of funny and interesting: Harrison Ford doing errands. “Well, what I mean is I’m getting my hair cut,” he said. “The guy is coming here to the house to cut my hair for this Marvel movie. You want to come and see me get my hair cut?” ...