2006 Movie News Archives

Glenn Ford

May 2, 2006: Glenn Ford Turns 90

Glenn Ford, the actor who played Jonathan Kent in "Superman: The Movie", celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday.

    Legendary actor Glenn Ford, who turned 90 on Monday, had to cut short a birthday celebration with family and friends when failing health forced him to retire to his bedroom.

    The stalwart hero of Westerns, comedies and dramas from Hollywood's golden age of the 1940s and '50s was lucid and communicative Sunday morning, family members said, but his condition worsened in the afternoon.

    "Dad has had a series of ministrokes starting 15 years ago," said his son, Peter Ford.

    He has "good days and bad days," said Peter Ford, whose mother was tap dancer Eleanor Powell, the first of his father's three wives.

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