Harrison Ford has played many iconic movie roles such as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and a butt-kicking president aboard Air Force One, but his career had a shaky start.... Ford originally travelled to Los Angeles in 1964 to apply for a job doing radio voice-overs. He didnt get it and eventually started doing bit movie roles that required little or no talking for about $150 a week! He also ended up on the bottom of the hiring list after offending producer Jerry Tokovsky. After getting fed up with the roles that were offered to him, Ford decided to take up carpentry, teaching himself the tools of the trade to support his wife and two sons. He also managed to secure a job helping out as a stagehand for The Doors to make ends meet. But it was his carpentry skill that was to lead to his breakthrough... he was building cabinets for none other than George Lucas! Lucas offered him a role in “American Graffiti” and the rest is history... Ron Howard was also cast in this movie which led him to a starring role in Happy Days and this catapaulted his career, eventually to become one of the best Producer/Directors in the film industry today. :-)
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:16:16 +0000
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