![]() ![]() ![]() Wry and funny without being quirky, extremely hunky but never greasy or creepy, and as reliable in the middle of a punch-up as he was slowly sleuthing out some murder in America’s heartlands, he could do it all. From the moment he emerged as roguish smuggler Han Solo, Harrison Ford was a household name. “And Francis would say, ‘George, I think we need real actors.’” One of those real actors was Ford, drafted in by producer Fred Roos to shine as a devil-may-care drag racer.Īfter American Graffiti, Coppola kept Ford around with small roles in The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, but it wasn’t until Lucas hired him to run lines with prospective actors during auditions for a little film called Star Wars and was won over by his easy charm that everything came together. “George would be at the airport, and he’d see two guys arguing, and he’d say, ‘They’re the exact people I want for my movie,’ so he’d bring them in for a reading,” American Graffiti screenwriter Willard Huyck said later. The young George Lucas was many things, but a keen-eyed talent spotter he wasn’t. ![]() He still needed a little push to get ahead, though. As every profile of Ford points out, he was a jobbing carpenter around Los Angeles before his acting career really got going. His is one of the most Hollywood of Hollywood stories: the straight-shooting, no-bull regular Joe who made his chance count. There are many, many legends about Harrison Ford. ![]()
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