Harrison Ford Used To Be The ‘It’ Man, What Happened?

He was in fact the It man, being a huge star for decades. Then he got really old and semi retired.

That’s what “happened.”

I liked that movie Hollywood Homicide he made.

He turned down the role Michael Douglas went on to play in Traffic, which was a mistake.

He's almost 80. That happened.

Ford also turned down the lead role in JFK to make Clear and Present Danger instead.

He's fucking old. It's part of life, OP.

The most average of average white guys.

I have NIL interest in this man.

But a director of Oscar-winners has said Ford has the eloquence of a monosyllabic Neanderthal.

He turned into an old guy.

It happens.

I can't decide if it would be a blessing or a curse in your old age to have a filmography to remind you how hot you were, back in that long-departed day.

[quote]The most average of average white guys.

PLEASE. Looks, charisma and lots of sexual energy. He was phenomenal as Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

He didn't become a star until his mid-thirties, and then he had a hell of a run that lasted until he was in his fifties! Pretty good for a guy who really wasn't much of an actor. Really, his career outlasted his interest in acting, by the mid-90s he was over it all and it showed. He and Hollywood slowly parted ways after that, by mutual agreement.

My favorite piece of gossip about him is that he can fly a helicopter, and volunteers his own helicopter and piloting services for the search-and-rescue service in Colorado where he lives. So every few years, you hear about some lost hiker being flown out of danger by Han Solo, which is so awesome that it makes me want to go to Colorado and get lost in the woods.

FF OP for such a moronic question.

Stupid ass question! Yo! Ppl grow and age. Harrison Ford is a legend. But he's earned he's privacy

[quote]I heard he loves his booze and pot.

Then he'll NEVER be a Broadway star!

OP must think the world stopped evolving when he did.

R11 No doubt he did that for years, but I think he's been put on ice after his crash.

What happened is he's arguably the most successful movie star of all time.

He almost crashed his plane into another passenger plane at Santa Monica airport b/c he is getting too old to fly. Sit down Harrison.

9-months of cataloguing performers who "Used To Be The 'It' Man, What Happened?" on DL threads in 3, 2, 1 ...

He lost his looks by the time he hit 60. Boyishly handsome stars are hot as young men but age poorly, such as Dennis Quaid, Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell.

Where are today's Cary Grants!?

[quote]The most average of average white guys.

The person who wrote this is the most idiotic of idiot racists.

Hot pic, though, Didn't Helen Mirren say he was a lousy kisser on that movie Mosquito Coast?

Someone needs to explain the aging process to you bitches. He’s still pretty hot imo

After people get old and usually less attractive- they die.. Don't mean to rain on your day..

Before he became famous I hired him to build a deck at my house in Malibu. He was stoned all the time and never finished the job!

He’s fuck’n old, and an old white dude at that. We’ve moved on.

He has a huge dick.

One of the hottest ever

This is OP. I am an Eldergay. I wasn’t saying what happened to his looks... I was merely saying I miss his acting. He is still very handsome and is in great shape. Ever since he and Calista have been together he has been MIA.

I know he has had several plane crashes, too. I really enjoyed his movies. I miss him.

He got old. It happens to all of us. It'll happen to you too, OP.

He started wearing an earring.

Wasn't he a Hollywood pot dealer before he became famous?

R21 all those guys aged pretty well. Val Kilmer would make a better example.

He has plenty of money and he's not Johnny Depp-stupid. He doesn't need to work if he's not interested.

He was Fred Roos' pot dealer. Fred was George and Steven's casting agent. Then he became George and Steven's pot dealer.

I don't think he went anywhere. His role as a leading man may be finally over at seventy something, but he still had his iconic franchises to fall back on. Blade Runner, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars.

R37 truth

From the looks of that basket in the OP photo he's hauling a quite large love tackle.

R39 that was my reason for posting photo.

An eldergay told me this guy showed off his butt-cleavage in the second Star Wars movie.

I don't remember anything.

Harrison? Downward slide since “The Fugitive”.

Me? Upward slide since “The Fugitive”.

I remember seeing "Witness" upon its release as a young gayling and being completely in love with him to the extent of writing to his fan club (remember those?) to get a signed shirtless photo of him. A few years ago, I was in NYC and bump into this hobo walking around with a stick figure on his arm in the Village. After a few moments, I realized it was Harrison Ford with Calista and it took me the whole block to process how awful he looked. I'm walking and thinking "That was the man who was my teenage crush..." It's not the fact that he aged, because we all do, but he looked like shit, kind of like Ted Kaczynski, someone who had completely given up on civilization.

[quote] [R39] that was my reason for posting photo.

And we love you for it.

What happened to Warren Beatty? Jack Nicholson? Burt Reynolds (RIP)?

A friend asked him to critiqued a house he was considering buying. Apparently, Ford takes that very seriously because he pointed out large things and the most minute things that were wrong. Friend said he was stunned at his knowledge because he was better than any home inspector he'd ever hired.

Only has a couple of different facial expressions & emotions, as an actor. He got into two pilot (plane) mishaps in a short period of time. He was and is handsome, though.

I remember reading a review of "Working Girl" that went something like this: what this movie teaches us is... that Harrison Ford should never be cast in a role that requires him to wear a necktie.

For an actor who has been in some of the biggest movies of all time, I think Ford is a bit underrated. By the mid-'80s, he started to take on roles in different genres - Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Working Girl, Presumed Innocent. He was excellent in all of them. In particular, I love his performance in Witness, for which he received his only Oscar nomination.

And I thought he was very funny and very sexy in Working Girl. The scene where he's in his office putting on his clothes and talking on the phone is brilliant.

He should have received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Age of Adeline. He was really great in that movie. The scene where he sees Blake Lively is really moving.

[quote]He should have received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Age of Adeline. He was really great in that movie. The scene where he sees Blake Lively is really moving.

He was the best part of the movie. I wanted him to end up with her. He looked good too.

I knew him back when he was a carpenter in LA -- stoned all the time, so no one knew if he was stupid or just out of it. Neither a nice guy nor a bad guy, just someone who spent all his time thinking about himself, but not in a creepy way. Just completely self-involved. Used to look at the mirror a lot. We always thought he was trying to figure out if he was handsome or not. But then a friend suggested he was so stoned he was actually just trying to figure out if that was him or not.

YOU GAYS ARE JUST JEALOUS. HE PLUNGES THAT MAJESTIC MAN MEAT INTO MY COOTER EVERY NIGHT. PLUS HE'S RICH AND I GOT TO RETIRE .

Carrie Fisher said he was a lousy lay.

He got old, so he can't do leading man roles anymore. And he is not good enough an actor to play the roles the other guys in his age range get. Plus I think he's not really into it. He's not someone who is driven to act for the sake of the "craft." He just wants to smoke weed and fly his planes, and why not?

Would definitely still smash R14. But another one in his younger days.

The last movie I saw him in, some action flick with Nicole Kidman, he looked like he moved very carefully and dodderingly. Too old for action and paired with a too young woman.

You would definitely smash his old brittle bones, r55. Unless you weigh 85 pounds.

[quote] Carrie Fisher said he was a lousy lay.

She was probably too high to know what he was doing.

Bad kisser usually equals bad sex R58.

Young Harrison reminds me of young Kevin Costner. They both had a high degree of blue collar hotness about them. They looked like hot construction workers who didn't realize how gorgeous they were until someone told them.

As an old guy, he can be dismissed.

But as a young one (here circa American Graffiti), well that's another story . . .

As others have stated, he aged out of his career. He did have a remarkable run starting with Star Wars in 1977 when he was 35 years old. It was supposed to make Mark Hamill a star, but everyone fell in love with roguish Han Solo instead, who was really supposed to be a supporting character. Raiders of the Lost Ark catapulted him into leading man roles at the age of 39. He proved he could be a box office draw outside of Raiders and Star Wars with Witness. He had hits and misses in the 1980s but showed a range with comedy (Working Girl), drama (Witness) and sci-fi/adventure movies (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). In the 1990s, he continued to excel in leading man roles. I loved him in The Fugitive, which was a box office smash. He was 50 years old when The Fugitive was filmed.

Enter the 2000s. By 2002, he was 60 years old. In my observation, even most men who have held up well start to lose their looks in their mid- to late-50s. Ford was no exception. Age starts to diminish your looks no matter who you are with rare exceptions, so Ford aged out of the handsome leading man roles that made him famous. To Ford's credit, he did not do a bunch of plastic surgery. Tom Cruise has and it's been good work, but he's starting to look a bit plastic. Someday, there will be a reckoning for all that surgery for Tommy Boy.

Ford still does ok. I thought Ford was the best thing in The Force Awakens. It's too bad they killed him off in the first movie. Now he's older, married to a younger woman, and he doesn't seem to give a fuck anymore. Good for him. He earned it. He's worth millions and never has to work again.

What happened? Really, OP? This is an actual question you have?

Time happened. The man is in his seventies. It’s no longer 1983. At least two entire generations have come of age since his film debut. This is like someone in 1989 asking why Fred Astaire isn’t still relevant. Glance at a calendar once in a while. You’ve completely lost touch.

His nose veers to one side. More apparent as he’s gotten older.

Blame it on Calista

OP, I have to take 5 points off for not wording it as "why did Harrison Ford's career go straight down the shitter?".

In his prime, didn't he have sex with four and five and six women a day? Count me in--I'd have been happy to be no. 7!!!!

He was a very good actor in the Clark Gable mode, and he was hot as fuck.

So shut up, you hoors.

FYI

Michael Peterson (the Staircase killer) had such an odd demeanor. I think Christopher Walken could play MP. At this point, both Ford and Walken are actually too old to play the part.

His kid was touring Wesleyan a couple of years ago and I passed him, the kid and Calista on the street. He looked really old!

He had a great run and it’s way way over. He was a fine manly piece of ass for a good chunk of time, I’ll just keep those memories.

I thought he was also great in Blade Runner 2049. There was talk of an Oscar nomination but it never happened.

The other night I watched my Blu-ray double disc of Presumed Innocent and Frantic. He was great in both. He's actually a very strong dramatic actor which he doesn't get enough credit for.

He's also great in What Lies Beneath.

Age happened. Can’t stay on top forever. I love Harrison Ford. He was my first crush. I was horny for him before I even knew what it meant.

Harrison Ford. He'll be 78 in July.

He was so good in Witness and Kelly McGillis was brilliant and beautiful. I can't believe Alexander Godunov drank himself to death. He was also beautiful.

Kelly McGillis was beautiful compared to the way she looks now. I always found her unattractive. Her face was horsey.

Need you ask.

DUMBEST thread setup in years.

Agreed dumb thread. He got older. Happens to all humans. But on the other hand, this is the first time, I thought "what a hunk"

He was really good in that Age of Adelaide movie with Blake Lively

Regarding Henry is my favorite movie of his

he was comfortably handsome in Missing and then again in Working Girl. He's not a large man.