Iconic Characters: Harrison Ford’s Unforgettable Roles in Hollywood Cinema

Harrison Ford is celebrating because nothing more and nothing less than 81 years old. He is not yet an octogenarian nor does he enter the list of the longest-lived actors in Hollywood, but he is on his way to it. He has shot more than 50 films and as many series and has achieved a worldwide reputation as a result., despite the fact that he has never considered that his work goes beyond being a simple “job” and has said that his vocation is not to make the viewer happy, but rather to help him to be more altruistic. Contrary to his opinion, the accomplished Mike Nichols called them “the actors’ Ferrari” and it is for less, since has participated in some of the most famous, grossing and popular films in history and has come to charge up to 20 million dollars for his performances. These are his most unforgettable characters in Hollywood cinema.

Replicants, Outlaws, Adventurers

The American actor has an extensive and incredible filmography since the 1960s. He has worked with great film directors such as Coppola, Ridley Scott, George Lucas or Steven Spierlberg, among many others. And he is famous throughout the world for his action-adventure roles that have marked him so much throughout his long film career, making him an international star from head to toe and the highest-earning actor in history box office But, What are the most emblematic characters of Harrison Ford? Well, if we start at the beginning, we would have to start by highlighting Bob Falfa, one of his first characters in the cinema. he gave it to her George Lucas, the film director who discovered his talent con American graffiti in 1973. Right away, Coppola offered him the following year to offer him the role of Martin Stett in The conversationwhich was the beginning of his career towards stardom.

The mythical saga of Star Wars returns

Han Solo, the best pilot in the galaxy

And not only to stardom, but also… To the stars in space! Harrison Ford became world famous (and a full-fledged icon of culture geek popular) with his interpretation of Han Solo in 1977 in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. He became an essential part of the George Lucas saga and played the same space mercenary who flies through space on the back of his beloved Millennium Falcon on four other occasions: Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), Star Wars: Episode IX – The Force Awakens (2015) y Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

Replicant… Or no?

Thanks to the George Lucas saga, Harrison Ford became an unstoppable actor and job offers in Hollywood did not stop raining down on him. His next big role would come in 1979 as Colonel Lucas in Apocalypse nowby Coppola, in 1979. And later, became the symbol of the replicants of Blade Runner in 1982, by the hand of Ridley Scotta movie where many still wonder if the agent Rick Deckard was a replicant or not, since it was not entirely clear in the second part of the story either, Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

Ana Blanco’s interview with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling on TVE’s Newscast

An unforgettable saga being “Indy”

Although a year before playing Agent Deckard, he had already been crowned with another emblematic character that would end up developing its own saga: Indiana Jones. Spielberg cast Harrison Ford to play the charismatic university doctor and adventurer for in search of the lost arkin 1981, and ended up repeating the character in 1984 with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doomand in 1989, with Indiana Jones and the last crusade. In the latter, Harrison Ford shared the screen with Sean Connery, the eternal and young James Bond. The world’s most famous archaeologist returned to the big screen in 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulland he has done it, again, with the fifth film in the saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate.

Images of Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones IV.

In the 90’s, Harrison Ford wanted to distance himself from all his previous stage —although she is also the most famous in her film career— and began to play very different roles and more related to today. In this way, the actor played Rusty Sabich in presumed innocent (1990) and he went to the more spy side playing the mythical character of Tom Clancy in his books: Jack Ryan. He did it twice: in patriot game (1992) and in Imminent Danger (1994). And without leaving the action and adrenaline aside, a couple of years later he starred in the film the wantedas Dr. Richard Kimble, in 1993, and dared to be President James Marshall of the United States in the iconic Air Force One: The President’s Planede Wolfgang Petersen, en 1997.

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