Acting
George Ford
Biography
Tall distinguished looking George Ford started out as a contract player in the early 1930s but like most contract players, it didn't work out. Never discouraged, Ford moved on to roles as dancers, socialites, and chorus boys. Ford would occasionally have dialog but he was constantly used for his good looking appearance and his unique ability to ballroom dance. During the 1950s, Ford developed a reputation for being one of the best dancers in Hollywood. Musicals weren't his specialty though, it was the nice ballrooms and the socialite parties. He continue to work these throughout his career. He also managed to appear in a lot of various war films playing soldiers and high ranking military officers. With the popularity of television westerns increase, Ford found himself frequently appearing at square dances and as a dancer to show the leading ladies off. Eventually he became a regular townsman for a few years on Gunsmoke appearing in the bar scenes and playing bank tellers and town dignitaries. By 1968, Ford's work started to decrease and he decided to retire to Colorado where he could take up skiing and where he and his wife regularly competed in ballroom dancing contest. Like many extras, Ford's talents were not known to the general film public but he leaves behind a legacy of making the other dancers he danced with look better than they were and a large amount of film work that can be appreciated by future generation.
Movies with George Ford
Some Like It Hot
1959
Singin' in the Rain
1952
The Great Race
1965
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
The Enemy Below
1957
Warlock
1959
Cat Ballou
1965
The Band Wagon
1953
Dragonwyck
1946
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
White Christmas
1954
North to Alaska
1960
Imitation of Life
1959
The Country Girl
1954
Pillow Talk
1959
Elmer Gantry
1960
Torn Curtain
1966
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Lover Come Back
1961
Top Hat
1935
My Man Godfrey
1957
Artists and Models
1955
Raintree County
1957
Cimarron
1960
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
The Buccaneer
1958
His Kind of Woman
1951
Designing Woman
1957
Advise & Consent
1962
Seven Thieves
1960
The Last Hurrah
1958
The Rack
1956
Son of Flubber
1963
The Opposite Sex
1956
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
The Letter
1940
Love Affair
1939
Critic's Choice
1963
Riff-Raff
1947
Angel Face
1953
Born to Be Bad
1950
The Eddy Duchin Story
1956
The FBI Story
1959
Show Boat
1951
The Turning Point
1952
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
Winchester '73
1967
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
The Silver Chalice
1954
Cult of the Cobra
1955
It's Always Fair Weather
1955
The Thrill of It All
1963
You Were Never Lovelier
1942
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
The Glass Bottom Boat
1966
The Wet Parade
1932
Who Was That Lady?
1960
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
Born to Kill
1947
City for Conquest
1940
All Through the Night
1942
Hollywood Canteen
1944
The Stooge
1951
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963
Go Naked in the World
1961
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
King of the Royal Mounted
1940
It Started with a Kiss
1959
My Forbidden Past
1951
Ransom!
1956
Bombardier
1943
Thunder Over the Plains
1953
The Gay Bride
1934
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943
Hellzapoppin'
1941
Black Angel
1946
Sol Madrid
1968
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Lucky Me
1954
Hollywood Party
1934
Three for the Show
1955
Carefree
1938
The Garment Jungle
1957
The Werewolf
1956
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
Law of the Lawless
1964
Who Done It?
1942
Roadblock
1951
On Moonlight Bay
1951
The Man from Galveston
1963
Youngblood Hawke
1964
The Hypnotic Eye
1960
Brave Warrior
1952
Broadway
1942
Slightly French
1949
Heartbeat
1946
Vicki
1953
Mississippi
1935
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
The Crowd Roars
1938
Around the World
1943
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
The Square Jungle
1955
Pawnee
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
Callaway Went Thataway
1951
Death in Small Doses
1957
Holiday for Lovers
1959
College Holiday
1936
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
Beauty for the Asking
1939
Give Me Your Heart
1936
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946
Eve Knew Her Apples
1945
TV Shows with George Ford
Perry Mason
1957
Wagon Train
1957
Bonanza
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
Bat Masterson
1958
Batman
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Donna Reed Show
1958
The Wild Wild West
1965
Rawhide
1959
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
Burke's Law
1963
Cheyenne
1955
The Invaders
1967
The Untouchables
1959
The Virginian
1962
Father Knows Best
1954
Green Acres
1965
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Thriller
1960
Zorro
1957
The Lucy Show
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Gunsmoke
1955
The Jack Benny Program
1950
Honey West
1965
Mr. Lucky
1959
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
Sam Benedict
1962
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Lieutenant
1963
Dennis the Menace
1959
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Alcoa Theatre
1957
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Green Hornet
1966
Cimarron Strip
1967