Once a struggling actor hammering out a living as a carpenter, Ford was making a cabinet for George Lucas when the filmmaker handed him the script for a little space opera film called Star Wars.

Blade Runner follows Deckard (Ford), a Blade Runner who must pursue and terminate four escaped Replicants who stole a ship in ...

"Ford had not been given much of a chance, particularly since Star Wars, to show what he was made of," Deeley is quoted as ...