Want to know the best Harrison Ford movies? How about the worst Harrison Ford movies? Curious about Harrison Ford’s box office grosses or which Harrison Ford movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Harrison Ford movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information. And a lot more on all of Harrison Ford’s movies.
Harrison Ford (1942-) is one of our all-time favorite actors. He has been a movie superstar for 5 different decades. We have strong feelings that he is well deserving of a Honorary Oscar®. Watch our Give Harrison Ford His Damn Oscar Already. His IMDB page shows over 80 acting credits since 1966. This page will rank Harrison Ford movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, bit parts and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Harrison Ford Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Harrison Ford Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Harrison Ford movies by co-stars of his movies
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- Sort Harrison Ford movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Harrison Ford movie received.
- Sort Harrison Ford movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- If you use the search and sort buttons….this becomes a very fun table to play around with
Harrison Ford Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Harrison Ford.
1. Harrison Ford was born on July 13th 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He arrived in Hollywood in 1964 and signed a contract with Columbia Pictures that paid him $150 a week.
2. Harrison Ford first 12 years of making movies were filled with many uncredited parts and small quickly forgotten speaking parts. The highlight during this time frame would be his small roles in 1973’s American Graffiti and 1974’s The Conversation…both were nominated for Oscars® for Best Picture but neither movie really helped his career.
3. By 1976, Ford turned towards his carpentry skills to support his family. He was hired by George Lucas to build some cabinets for the Lucas house. Ford was building the cabinets at the same time Lucas was trying to cast actors for his latest movie. One thing lead to another and Ford found himself with a starring role in a little film called Star Wars.
4. Harrison Ford has been married three times in his life. He has two sons from his first marriage to Mary Marquard, he has a son and a daughter from his second marriage to Melissa Matheson and is currently married to actress Calista Flockhart.
5. His second wife, Melissa Matheson wrote the screenplay for E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Ford actually played the part of Elliott’s teacher but the part was cut at the last minute. Now that is a deleted scene that I really want to see.
6. Harrison Ford has only been nominated for one Oscar® ….Best Actor for Witness. He does have 4 Golden Globe® nominations…those were for Witness, The Mosquito Coast, The Fugitive and Sabrina.
7. In 2000, Harrison Ford proved he could be a hero in real life as well as on the screen. Ford piloted his helicopter to rescue a dehydrated hiker on Table Mountain near his house in Wyoming.
8. Roles Harrison Ford turned down or was seriously considered for: Dragonheart, The Hunt for Red October, Vanilla Sky, Jurassic Park, Syriana, JFK, The Untouchables, Dick Tracy, Proof of Life, Schlinder’s List, The Perfect Storm, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Alien.
9. Harrison Ford says his favorite movie that he performed in is….. The Mosquito Coast….and the most frustrating film he acted in was …..Blade Runner. Ford says Deckard was human….Ridley Scott the director says Deckard was a replicant….put me on the side that Deckard was human
10. Check out Harrison Ford‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Your video contains an unusually strong run of STILLS which along with a very even overall quality throughout lift the Ford video into the 99% rating bracket in my book and the best stills for me are: 1/with Anne Heche [whatever happened to her?] 2/The Exhamables 3/Cowboys & Hirschhorns 4/ensemble one from Force 10 from Manchester 5/with Northern Ireland’s Liam 6/with Pfeiffer 7/Ender’s Game 8/two for Indie/Crystal Skull 9/Gary Oldman in apparently The Donald’s favourite Harrison Ford Movie, Air Force One 10/Clear and Present Danger 11/the Working Guy with his two Working Gals 12/two for Temple of Doom [maybe the only Indie movie that I could watch again as I have nostalgic memories of taking my young son to see it – before he grew up and turned on Laddie] 13/all the ones with “Chewy” in them 14/solos of Harrison showing how young and handsome he once was.
You and The Big Guy agree on 5 of Harrison’s top 6 best reviewed movies. You include in your 6 Apocalypse Now instead of The Fugitive which WH goes for. No prizes for guessing whose side I’m on this time -when I saw The Work Horse had left ’Apoc’ out of his six I couldn’t help exclaiming “The Horror! The Horror!”
ADDITIONA RELATD TRIVIA I have just watched Joel McCrea in a repeat [sorry Steve – even you can’t teach an old dog like me new tricks!] of one of his “young man” roles, 1953’s western The Lone Hand. I have mentioned before how Joel, Scott and Astaire were habitually referred to as “young man” in their later movies when they were in advanced middle age and even later. “It’s good to see the young men coming to church on Sundays,” says a pastor to an ageing Randy in one western as Scott walks out of the church hand-in-hand with his ‘child bride’!
In Lone Hand Joel was around 50 in real life and in the film married Barbara Hale [of TV’s Perry Mason fame] who was in reality nearly 20 years his junior, and Roy Roberts the actor who played her father was, again in real life, a year younger than Joel! McCrea has a small son from a previous marriage in the movie and Barbara has a little brother just about the same age as Joel’s son, who sulks because he thinks he has to call Barbara’s little brother “Uncle”! When Joel marries Barbara a big fuss is made about what he’s going to get up to on their honeymoon!
In one scene Joel jumps onto the backs of 6 galloping horses which are pulling a stagecoach and falls between them, requiring him to scuttle like a spider under the horses and coach so that he can hoist himself back on top via the rear of the coach. He then grabs the reins and forces the horses to halt. And just think: he did all THAT without having to take off his shirt.
First the Jedi Returned in 1983; then Batman Returned in 1992; following which Superman Returned in 2006; and now it is the Return of Fu Manchu – welcome back Fu; you’ve kept your threat of 2 weeks ago!
I have previously recorded on this site my personal views on Harrison Ford. I see him as one of the greatest stars of the modern cinemas but I feel his box office grosses are to an extent flattered by the self-selling Star Wars franchise, which helped make him rather than vice-versa. I liked him in the first Star Wars movie and the first two Indie movies but after that I grew tired of both those series. I also liked some of his other heyday films like Witness, Working Girl, Regarding Henry and Sabrina but have little interest in him nowadays. Certainly I feel he’s too old to play action heroes. I therefore had to laugh at your opening quote in which he said “now I have a chance to play old guys.” I couldn’t help thinking “If only you would ACT your age all the time Harrison.” – but possibly he thinks at times that he’s Joel McCrea [see Part 2].
However that’s what I think of Harrison on-screen, and off-screen I retain considerable respect for his courage in publicly standing up for his political beliefs and actively championing causes that he supports. Anyway MY personal opinions are irrelevant when one considers that his net worth is currently estimated at $230 million and IMDB credits him with 41 acting awards and 40 nominations. To cap that, WH ranks him 9th in the Cogerson list of 25 Greatest Male Legends 1950-2010. Also regulars of this site will no doubt recognise -and The Work Horse certainly will- the inimitable style of the critic who wrote this flattering review-
“Harrison Ford is an action hero with dimension – humorous, unpretentious, a superman who looks like an ordinary Joe. Many of his films have been gigantically popular but his actual ability has hardly been tapped.” I am sure that fans of Statham and The Rock would kill for their man to get such a review! Neither of THEM look as if they have greater screen resources that are untapped; indeed the pair are over-hyped in my view.
Best POSTERS in your video 1/Hollywood Homicide 2/The Joel’s Own 3/Expendables 3 [possibly the definitive photo of the greatest collection of aging acting hams ever assembled!] 4/Ender’s Game 5/ Frantic 6/Witness 7/the set for 2049 Blade Runner 8/two for Force Awakens 9/ Return of the Jedi 10/foreign language one for The Conversation 11/All material for 19282’s Blade Runner 12/the set for Apocalypse Now 13/Raiders of Lost Arc 14/Star Wars 15/Empire Strikes Back. All marvellous posters really
Hello Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, it is appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Modern actors are the subject of this current wave of videos. I’ve already done a few in the past e.g. Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and The Stath. But there are plenty more. Truth is I’m running out of classical subjects.
Bruce and his mentor Joel can cover obscure and lesser known actors and actresses of the past on his site, while I extend my youtube breaks more and more. [Stop being lazy Steve!] I may continue a directors run of videos after this current wave, which will hopefully include classic Hollywood directors.
Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg still want to make another Indiana Jones film but the longer they delay the more ridiculous it will be, Ford will be 80 in 2022. And Spielberg is only 4 years younger.
Looking at my files there are 10 films scoring 10 out of 10 in Ford’s filmography, they are –
Star Wars V -The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars IV -A New Hope
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Conversation
American Graffiti
Witness
Star Wars VII -The Force Awakens
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Two more scored 9 out of 10 – The Fugitive and Return of the Jedi.
The Empire Strikes Back tops the charts at both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, Bruce has Star Wars (1977) as his no.1 on the critics chart. I’m with Bruce’s critics on this one, the very first Star Wars (1977) is still by far my favorite of the saga. But fans prefer the sequel.
Ford on the current state of cinema – “I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we’re seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I’m not a very nostalgic person – but I enjoy a good story.”
[Bob smiles and nods]
HI STEVE
Thanks for your reply – I have missed your feedbacks – and biting comments about my own tastes! I agree totally with the opinions in your final paragraph as you rightly guessed.
I have seen only the first 3 Star Wars films plus the Liam Neeson one as my son asked me to take him to it. My own order of preference is:
1/Star Wars 1977
2/Return of Jedi
3/Liam Neeson one
4/Empire Strikes Back.
When I mention my son it’s not unnatural I then think of Laddie. I actually watched Ladd at the weekend in 1948’s Whispering Smith. The last time I saw that one was way back in 1951 aged 10 so I am sure you will forgive my watching it again! I was amazed in hindsight at how Ladd was able to effectively underplay quiet menace just as in later years Charlie Bronson was the master of that style.
Good breakdown from Bob on Ford’s movies and Steve’s video. Good to see Steve producing another video after a 2 week break. Good stuff from the both of you.
ONCE AGAIN HARRISON FORD WAS LEFT AT THE ALTER! THIS YEAR’S HONORARY OSCAR WINNERS WERE ANNOUNCED. AND ONCE AGAIN NO FORD! OUR VIDEO STILL REPRESENTS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/give-harrison-ford-damn-oscar-already/
FYI…..congrats to the 5 that were announced.
Not thinking Harrison Ford was in a 1922 movie. He is old but not that old.
Hey Maria T. That is a mistake…sadly I can not fix it until I get back home. There was a Harrison Ford in that movie….it was the silent star versus the box office champ of today. Thanks for the heads up on that issue.
Bruce, I thought you might enjoy this fan video. Harrison Ford in Solo A Star Wars Story.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/harrison-ford-digitally-inserted-fan-made-solo-a-star-wars-story-trailer-1111944
Hey Steve….the best Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer I have seen yet…….it all worked for me, except for the American Graffiti clips….the old pickup truck seemed to out of place to me…..thanks for sharing. So to pay you back….check out this Ford/Solo surprise clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUopKu2Qjg
Speaking of American Graffiti….it is a reunion with Ford and Howard.
That was cool, the real Han Solo surprising the young pretender. 🙂
Yeah the pickup truck and cowboy hat looked out of place in that Solo fan video. I don’t think Han wore a cowboy hat in Star Wars but he did wear what looked like a cowboy outfit in the first movie.
George Lucas was at the premiere but Ford wasn’t there.
https://media.spokesman.com/photos/2018/05/11/ssan_at_the_Han_Solo_Premier.JPG_t1170.jpg?e2225bc5c1a75a1036ca3021fecba2b47792abfe