Harrison ford is an american actor. He was born in Chicago on this day in 1942. His dad, Christopher Ford had previous to his birth been an actor and his mum, Dorothy worked as a radio actress. Harrison Ford himself became fascinated with acting when he took an drama class in his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford got his first role as an actor in 1966 in the movie "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-round". His first credited role was in "A Time for Killing" in 1967. Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter in this time to support his family, as he was not able to live of acting. In 1973 played Ford in his first George Lucas film, American Graffiti, and the relationship between the two became important for Ford's later acting carrier. Harrison Ford was originally hired to read lines for the actors auditioning for roles in the Star Wars movie, but Georg Lucas was so impressed with his reading that he offered him the role as Han Solo. He was supposedly payed US 10.000 for his first role as Han Solo and 16 million dollars for his last. With the role as "Indiana Jones" was Harrison Ford's status as an leading actor established and he went on to play in several other more or less successful movies.
