- Source of Wealth: Film, Television
- Age: 77
- Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Weight: 218 lbs (98.88 kg)
- Marital Status: Married (Calista Flockhart)
- Full Name: Harrison Ford
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: July 13, 1942
- Ethnicity: Irish, German, Ashkenazi Jewish
- Occupation: Actor, Film Producer
- Education: Ripon College, Wisconsin
- Children: 4 (Liam, Benjamin, Willard, Malcolm, Georgia)
Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer who has an estimated net worth of $230 million. This former carpenter went on to star in some of Hollywood’s biggest films and become one of the industry’s most bankable stars.
Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago and raised in a middle-class suburb, he had an average childhood. An introverted loner, he was popular with girls but picked on by school bullies. Ford quietly endured their everyday tortures until he one day lost his cool and beat the tar out of the gang leader responsible for his being repeatedly thrown off an embankment. He had no special affinity for films and usually only went to see them on dates because they were inexpensive and dark. Following high school graduation, Ford studied English and Philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. An admittedly lousy student, he began acting while in college and then worked briefly in summer stock. He was expelled from the school three days before graduation because he did not complete his required thesis.
In the mid-’60s, Ford and his first wife, Mary Marquardt (his college sweetheart) moved to Hollywood, where he signed as a contract player with Columbia and, later, Universal.