Actor Glenn Ford dies at 90

Yahoo AP ^ | 08/30/06

[RobbyS]

One of my favorites, and a war veteran.

[RobbyS]

That was good casting, plus I think he had met Spruance.

[RobbyS]

Their historical memory only goes back thirty years. English education has regressed even more than American.

[SuziQ]

For his actions, Commander Glenn Ford was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal, and was decorated with the Vietnamese Legion of Merit First Class by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky on Feb. 4, 1967. He retired from the active reserve on Oct. 1, 1978."

Just damn!

[Howlin]

If that far, IMO.

Reporters today are so shallow it's flabbergasting to me.

I realized that last year during Katrina, with all the moaning and sniveling. They had never SEEN a storm do that to any place in this country.

They're too dumb to realize, as Haley Barbour said last night, that NO had the same resources and access to cash as Mississippi did; they wouldn't dare contemplate WHY it is that Mississippi is so far along in their reconstruction and NO isn't.

[SuziQ]

Saw a quirky movie the other night, Sam. Jeanne might like it. It stars Elijah Wood, and is called Everything is Illuminated. It's about a Jewish man going to the Ukraine to look for someone his Grandmother had mentioned, and a town noted on an old photograph. It was a VEY good movie; hilarious and poignant at the same time. We got it from Netflix.

[Inyo-Mono]

For years I would make up stories and tell jokes only to hear them 3-4 days later on the Johnny Carson's show. (And I am not joking! Commuter traffic from the Bay Area to LA...)

Stevens and Grdnic must have near by.

[RayChuang88]

I have often said that people who lived beyond 80 when they pass away nowadays should consider themselves lucky. This is the generation that was seriously addicted to cigarette smoking; those who have lived this long should consider themselves lucky.

[Finalapproach29er]

During the late 1990's he said he watched Fox news channel!

[Treader]

Ya did good ol' cowboy. May you rest on high, upon that mountain, your work is done...

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

dont forget Fate is the hunter.

[DemforBush]

Loved him in just about everything he did. Torpedo Run was a particular favorite.

[skr]

Jane Powell, who started as a child star in the 1940s, is still around and was working as recently as 2002 at age 73. Glynis Johns is also still with us.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

George raft has passed.buried in hollywood hills cemetery. head stone reads:I spent my money on wine,women and song and the rest i just pissed away.Classic

[DemforBush]

I'm always amazed at how much Hollywood has changed when it comes to the military. Old time actors like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Eddie Albert, and Sterling Hayden all put their acting careers on hold to do their bit for the country during wartime. Nowadays they'd probably be blackballed by studio execs!

[henbane]

ONE OF A KIND!

[fieldmarshaldj]

One of the best. May he rest in peace.

[M. Espinola]

Glenn Ford, a fine American actor.

3:10 To Yuma, with Van Heflin

[Mogollon]

One of my favorite actors. He played the USN Captain of the submarine 'Gray Fish' in Torpedo Run. It was a WWII movie about the sub that went into Tokyo Bay to sink the aircraft carrier Shenaru that was used in the Dec 7th attack on Pearl Harbor.

[BallyBill]

A true Patriot. When ever I hear about the Battle of Midway, I think of Glenn Ford. Apologies to the family of the real Ray Spruance.