Harrison Ford Profile – Episode #5 (September 10th, 2014)

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🗓️ 10 September 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. In today's episode it's all about Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father had Irish and German ancestry, and his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and television (Ironside (1967), The Virginian (196 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the Schmo's No Network Studios in Los Angeles, California, it's time for Profiles with your host, Alicia Malone and Scott Mance.
0:17.0	Hello, Schmovell! Welcome to Profiles. Episode 5. And you know what? Episode 5 has a lot in common with the title of a movie starring our featured spotlight, one of the greatest, one of the most famous and most popular actors, not only on this planet, but also a galaxy far, far away.
0:40.9	Harrison Ford.
0:42.9	I'm a little scared because Scott just had his first Red Bull.
0:45.5	Yes.
0:46.2	This could be an interesting show.
0:48.1	Harrison Ford, though, what a fantastic actor.
0:51.1	One of the most famous carpenters since Jesus.
0:54.0	Yes, that's for sure.
0:55.6	And he's played Hans Solo, Indiana Jones, president of the United States, a blade runner.
1:01.2	Yep.
1:01.6	A career that spanned six decades.
1:03.7	His movies have grossed over $6 billion.
1:07.0	That's a lot of money.
1:08.8	But look at the movies he's made.
1:13.3	What is it about Harrison Ford that did it for you?
1:21.7	Well, I say it comes down to five S's. He's got swag. He's got sarcasm. He's got a great smile.
1:28.5	He's very smart. And he's got the scowl. That's scow, the five S's. The reluctant action hero.
1:29.8	The reluctant action hero. And, you know, for me, it was the fact that I came of age at a time when the movies
1:35.9	that shaped my childhood, a lot of them, he was in them.
1:39.8	Yeah.
1:40.1	I mean, you just mentioned Star Wars, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones, Raiders.
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