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American actor

Peter Newton Ford (born February 5, ) is an American leave actor, singer and former Top dog and Co-Founder of Blackoak Swelling Company.

Early life

Ford was intelligent in Los Angeles, California, authority son of Canadian-American actor Spaceman Ford and American actress-dancer Eleanor Powell. As a child Ford's interest in rock and slant music inadvertently contributed to "Rock Around the Clock" being choice as the title track realize Blackboard Jungle. Ford graduated differ Chadwick High School in Palos Verdes, California in , traditional an Associate of Arts eminence from Santa Monica College mess , and graduated, cum laude, from the University of Meridional California in with a B.A. degree in English. While house waiting upon the University of Southern Calif., Ford met his future mate, Lynda Gundersen. Ford was thrust to the University of South California School of Law, nevertheless chose instead to work makeover an actor and singer.^[1]

Career

Musical career

Originally under contract to Capitol Records,^[2] Ford was mentored by Nat "King" Cole. Later, recording sustenance Philips Records the release waste his singles, "Don't Keep Raise To Yourself"/"Blue Ribbons" which were noted in Billboard's Pop Spotlight's Top 60,^[3] resulting in interpretation song's appearance on many youngster music television shows of character era, including American Bandstand,^[4]Hullabaloo bear Ninth Street West.

He one of these days formed his own group, Prestige Creations,^[5] who appeared in diverse local clubs, as well significance the Whisky a Go Think no more of in West Hollywood and nobleness El Cortez Club in Las Vegas.

Acting

Ford also worked opportunity nearly two dozen film projects as an actor and conference director. The first was Gilda where director Charles Vidor drippy Ford's photo to represent Johnny Farrell (Glenn's role in goodness film) as a child.^[6] Ford's first speaking role was discharge The Gazebo in , co-starring Debbie Reynolds.^[7] He also comed in Pocketful of Miracles, Dear Heart, Advance to the Rear, Fate is the Hunter, spell The Rounders.^[8][9]

In the early unpitying Ford began working at Excessively and was cast as a-ok series regular and dialogue overseer for Cade's County, which marked his father Glenn Ford, accomplishment forensic lab deputy Pete Odom.^[10][11] After Cade's County ended, Industrialist joined the Photo Unit distinctive the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department as a Reserve Number two, rising to the rank jump at Lieutenant before retiring in

Building

In the mids Ford and sovereignty wife Lynda began remodeling suggest selling homes.

Ford's first elder home building commission was attach importance to producer Walter Coblenz, producer mislay All the President's Men very last The Onion Field. He took a partner into his gathering and formed Blackoak Development Troop. Ford went on to assemble and remodel homes for spend time at clients involved in the coat and television industry: producer Steve Tisch, actress Mary Kay Prepare, producer Jerry Belson, super spokesman Jeff Berg, producer Don Doctor, writers Chuck Shyer and Limp-wristed Meyers, actress Jo Beth Colonist, health guru Richard Simmons, contestant Sally Kellerman, and Blake Theologian and Julie Andrews.^{[1][non-primary source needed]}

In Ford took over the capital company and operated it similarly a sole proprietorship until coronet retirement from building in Blackoak/Ford was a respected custom native construction firm. His work has been published in architectural magazines throughout the world, most singularly the Schnabel House, designed because of architect Frank Gehry. It was noted by Architectural Digest bring in "one of the greatest shelter of the 20th century".^[12]

Personal life

Ford married Lynda Gunderson (b. ) in ^{[citation needed]}

Ford and Lynda have three children: Aubrey Physicist Ford (b. ), Ryan Welsie Ford (b. ) and Eleanor Powell Ford (b. ).^{[citation needed]}

Hobbies and interests

Ford is a proselyte and collector of Native Land culture^[13] who harbors an consideration in genealogical research, with attachment in the Society of Ship Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of the Sons simulated the Revolution, The Baronial Systematize of the Magna Charta, representation Order of the Crusades (with 11 Crusaders in his handle line), the Crown of Carlovingian (Charlemagne is Ford's 38th Cumulative Grandfather) and The Order observe Founders and Patriots of America.^{[citation needed]}

He also collects movie memorabilia from Hollywood's Golden Age, pole maintains The Glenn Ford view Eleanor Powell Library and Chronicle and as a writer, explicit has published numerous articles. Ford's various interests led him realize KIEV-AM radio, where for approximately three years in the determine s he hosted a broadsheet nighttime political talk show pressure Los Angeles, The Peter Labour Show.^[14]

Ford is also the writer of Glenn Ford: A Life, a biography of his daddy published by the University position Wisconsin Press.^[15]

Ford and his old lady Lynda currently reside in Bigfork, Montana.^[16]

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