Today he is one of the biggest movie stars! Did you know who brought this letter to James Coburn?

During his long and prosperous career, he in turn donned Han Solo’s coat and cape in the Star Wars saga, the famous Indiana Jones hat and Inspector Rick Deckard’s long coat in Los Angeles. Raincoat from Blade Runner, Richard Kimble’s prison suit. in The Fugitive and even the costume of the President of the United States of America in Air Force One.

Now at the age of 81, having just seen him star in the excellent 1923 alongside Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford is without the slightest doubt one of the most popular and successful actors in the history of prestigious Hollywood.

• Everyone knows him today! Do you know who that young guy is on his bike?

But like most of the holy monsters who figure among the mainstays of cinema today, Harrison Ford began his career as a simple extra. 57 years ago today, more than a decade before George Lucas offered him the role that would change his career, he took his first steps on the Hollywood stage by gravitating around other monuments.

From his first scene in front of the cameras in the 1966 Bernard Girard cop drama The Ugly, we actually saw a very young Harrison Ford texting (and even replying to!) James Coburn, who played. The main character of the feature film.

A year later, Harrison Ford (who almost had a small role in a feature film by Frenchman Jacques Demmy) did even better with Jack Lemmon in the comedy Luv.

Considered a “hype”, he angrily got out of his car – which Lemmon’s character had accidentally run a red light – and threw a violent punch at the man, who was among Hollywood’s biggest stars at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDfk8z7UUTk

Harrison Ford seemed to have already carried his future charisma from his initial modesty, making a sensational arrival on the set. Still racking up small roles – but in more prominent films like Apocalypse Now – for a few years, the young actress really took off when she met George Lucas.

After offering him the lead role in the second feature film “American Graffiti”, the filmmaker asked him to embark on an intergalactic journey that would forever change the history of cinema, playing the role of smuggler Han Solo in the first film of the Star Wars saga.

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