Glenn Ford

As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family. Soon afterwards, the media reported that another of his co-stars, Gouthami, living in his house. In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War. They have two teenage daughters and their marriage lasted until 2002, when media attention to his relationship with the young actress Simran resulted in their separation. In 1962, Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as best actor for his part in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kamal then married Sarika. With Eleanor Powell he is the father of actor Peter Ford. He married Vani Ganapathy, another actress, but they divorced almost immediately when Sarika, his co-star in the movie Tic, Tic, Tic claimed that she was pregnant with his child.

Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. In his early years, he was much spoken about for his relationship with Sri Devi, a famous actress of that time. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron. Like many actors, his personal life has been the subject of media gossip. Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. He was the first Indian actor to promise that he won't act in smoking scenes in movies. He went on to be a leading man opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin. Along with his daughter, Kamal has donated his eyes and also offered his body for research after his death, the first Indian celebrity to do so.

His breakthrough role was in 1946, following military service, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Though born to an affluent Iyengar family, he denied his caste identity. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. Kamal is the first actor to turn his fan club into a service organization. Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. Some of his movies, especially Anbe Sivam (Love alone is god), have put forward his atheistic views. He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child. He is a self-professed rationalist, atheist, activist, and a follower of Periyar.

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1, 1916), better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an actor. His unfinished projects include Maruda Naayagam. Both "Virumandi" and "Vasool Raja" were successes. Kamal Hassan renamed his recent venture Sandiyar to Virumandi owing to a protest from a community in Tamil Nadu. He then gave a stunning performance in "Vasool Raja M.B.B.S", a remake of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's "Munnabhai M.B.B.S". He wrote screenplays for several of his films and ventured into film direction with Hey Ram, a film depicting the conflict between revolutionaries and proponents of non-violence during the Indian independence movement.

He has also involved himself in film production. Seven of his movies have been sent as India's official entry to the Oscars, more than any other person. He has also received the best actor award at the Asian Film festivals held in 1983 and 1985 for Saagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam, respectively. He is a three time winner of the Indian National award for best actor, for the films Nayakan, Moonram Pirai, and Indian.

He has played a wide range of characters including a ventriloquist, an under-world don, a freedom-fighter, a classical dancer, a blind violinist, a dwarf clown, and a mentally challenged man. Besides Tamil, he has also performed in movies in the Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada languages. Balachander's Telugu hit Maro Charithra. However, he got his break with K.

16 Vayathinile, in which he co-acted with Rajinikanth, established him as a popular actor. He made his screen debut with the Tamil movie Kalathur Kannamma at the age of 5. Kamal Haasan (born November 7, 1954) is an Indian movie star working mainly in the Tamil film industry.