In the 1974 production of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Gene Hackman and John Cazale take center stage in a film about a paranoid surveillance expert who has a change of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. While this was a great movie in my opinion, It was definitely a movie that brought together a cast full of newer actors that would go on to become even bigger names in Hollywood. One of these rising stars in particular was a young Harrison Ford.
Ford was born July 13, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to an Irish Catholic father and a Russian Jewish mother. Growing up in the Illinois suburb of Des Plaines, young Harry (as he was referred to as a child) did not share the rugged, adventurous, heroic characteristics that he shares with most of his onscreen characters. While his high school years at Maine Township High were better, Ford was the scrawny, nerdy little boy that was a common target of neighborhood bullies. (Wills, n.d.)
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