Glenn Ford

As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family. George Grossmith died in Folkestone, Kent. In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War. George Grossmith wrote numerous humourous pieces for the magazine Punch, as well as three books, The Reminiscences of a Society Clown (1888), Diary of a Nobody (co-written with his brother Weedon Grossmith, 1892), and Piano & I (1910). In 1962, Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as best actor for his part in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Grossmith first retired from the stage in 1891, returned from 1894 - 1897, and made two more short stage appearances before his final retirement in 1900. With Eleanor Powell he is the father of actor Peter Ford. He also toured with the D'Oyly Carte Company around Great Britain and the United States of America.

Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. George Grossmith became a regular member of Richard D'Oyly Carte's Savoy Theatre company, and created most of the lead comic light baritone roles in Gilbert & Sullivan's famous operettas. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron. He was noted for his ability to get laughs, often improvising comic business in roles-- although he sometimes tended to do this too often, even at the expense of portions of productions that were supposed to be serious, and the main critisim often directed at Grossmith was that he seemed unable to content himself with playing any scene straight. Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. He soon became well known in London as a comedian. He went on to be a leading man opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin. After working some time as a legal reporter and a journalist with no great success, Grossmith took to the stage in 1870.

His breakthrough role was in 1946, following military service, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. George Grossmith was born in London, the son of a lecturer of the same name. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. George Grossmith (December 7, 1847 - March 1, 1912) was an English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan. Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child.

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1, 1916), better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an actor.