Harrison Ford is in The Guns of Navarone! - The Guns of Navarone (1961) Discussion

[–] pauglase 14 years ago

You are mixing two films together. Harrison Ford starred in the much inferior sequel from the seventies, Force 10 from Navarone(1978).

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[–] Citizen88 14 years ago

He's right. Read the trivia and watch the scene.

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[–] BillyFisher 13 years ago

Here's a pic: http://www.mobypicture.com/user/davidlrattigan/view/10142962

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[–] thatguy_78757 13 years ago

it looks a LOT like him

but why would they pay to fly an unknown struggling american actor to Greece for a 2 second bit part with no dialogue? I think its just a local Greek actor who looks a lot like Ford

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[–] BillyFisher 13 years ago

There'd be no need for him to fly to Greece. If he's even seen in that particular location, it's only from behind, from a distance. His face only appears once or twice, in medium shot. He could have filmed that anywhere.

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[–] alvink 12 years ago

thanks, you have shown me enough that i now know that that is not him. no way, jose.

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[–] Julia-Caesaris 12 years ago

Looks a bit like him, isn't him.

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[–] Knoxcountyjail 13 years ago

No--just watched & rewound scene several times, even befire I was aware of this argument. If that's not him(would-be sniper in truck) it's a seperated at birth twin!!

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[–] BillyFisher 13 years ago

You're right. I was convinced that bit of trivia was a mistake, so I rewound the scene, and it's almost certainly him. He would have been about 18 at the time of filming.

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[–] The_Other_Snowman 13 years ago

I did a little research to satiate my curiosity and discovered that Harrison Ford moved to Los Angeles in 1964. In 1960 he would have been either at college or still in high school in Illinois. The bits of the movie not filmed in Rhodes were finished in Elstree Studios, England, where Harrison Ford was not living at the time.

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[–] laaksonen-rj 13 years ago

There also was some stuff shot at the Iverson Ranch, California. I have not found information about the scenes that might have been shot there.

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[–] lordhack_99 13 years ago

Looks like Harrison Ford?? You people must be brain damaged. Do us a favor and stay away from police line-ups.

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[–] mikeyg24 13 years ago

Looks like Harrison Ford?? You people must be brain damaged. Do us a favor and stay away from police line-ups.

No I think they're just plain retarded. This individual doesn't look remotely like Harrison Ford and there exists no evidence to prove he was in the movie.

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[–] Marvelouis 12 years ago

I hadn't seen this until recently myself. He clearly shows his potential and what was to come. Like watching a future hall of famer in the minor leagues.

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[–] garyedgecombe 12 years ago

Er. NO! It categorically is NOT Harrison Ford!!
How do i know? I was lucky enough to get his autograph a few years ago, & having heard this story (& T.G.O.N. being a favourite film) i asked him!
"I wasn't in it pal"
Hope that puts this topic to bed!

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[–] rdoyle29 11 years ago

This is without a doubt the stupidest thing I have read on IMDB. That's quite an accomplishment too.

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[–] markall31 11 years ago

His first role was in 1966 in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, he played a bellhop and was uncredited.

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[–] Tashtago 11 years ago

That's not him. its Trunk Davis.

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[–] hobnob53 10 years ago

I really don't know how so many people could be so insistently delusional about this.

Harrison Ford? He was 18 when TGON was filmed. Living in the Midwest. Not in show business. Not in Europe. The guy in the truck not only doesn't look a thing like Ford but is obviously several years older. The poster who claimed part of the movie was shot at the Iverson Ranch in California (thereby implying that Ford was in it) is an idiot because this entire picture was filmed in Greece (including this location shot) and at a studio in England.

As for Ford's alleged participation being in the trivia section, this is just one more instance of no one at IMDb actually bothering to read or check up on the claims some people insert.

TGON is not listed in Ford's credits because he wasn't and couldn't have been in it. As someone has pointed out, his first film was a bit in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round in 1966. Doesn't anybody check these things out?

One poster asked Ford himself and he denied it. That should be enough.

I agree with the poster who said the people who insist Harrison Ford was in this movie should stay away from police line-ups. The first soldier Peck shoots in the guardhouse outside the gun cave reminds me very slightly of David Letterman but I assure you he wasn't in The Guns of Navarone either!

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