He was married four times. The first marriage, to dancer Eleanor Powell in 1943, ended in divorce in 1959. They had a son, Peter. Ford married actress Kathryn Hays in 1966, but the marriage lasted only a year. In 1977, he wed actress Cynthia Hayward, a union that ended in divorce in 1984. In 1993, he married Jeanne Baus.
As a commander in the Naval Reserve, Ford spent a month in South Vietnam in 1967. Accompanied by a Marine Corps camera crew, he filmed combat locations for "Global Marine," a documentary training movie for recruits.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday September 02, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 3 inches; 113 words Type of Material: Correction
Glenn Ford obituary: The obituary of Glenn Ford in Thursday's California section said the actor "was found dead at his Beverly Hills home by Fire Department paramedics just before 4 p.m." According to information supplied to The Times by the family after the obituary appeared, paramedics were called to the family home by Ford's daughter-in-law, Lynda, after a caregiver had determined that Ford was having difficulty breathing. Paramedics were unable to resuscitate the 90-year-old actor. Efforts to find a representative of the family for further information on Ford's death Thursday night were unsuccessful, and initial information in the obituary should have been attributed to an official statement from the Beverly Hills Police Department.
"People who come out here for a visit and go back with pat opinions about how the war is going to be won are fools," Ford told The Times at the end of his trip to the war zone.
"This is a vicious war, a unique war, with no simple answer, but I think the complicated problem we face here cannot be appraised and judged by anyone who has not been here."
In the mid-to-late 1960s, Ford created three quality film roles that enriched his reputation: the footloose cowboy in "The Rounders," the good cop gone bad in "The Money Trap" and the frontiersman trying to recapture his family from Indians in "Day of the Evil Gun."
If Ford gravitated toward a single genre in his later years, it was the western, where the simple plot lines and sparse dialogue suited him. "You don't have to speak English to understand what's going on," he once told The Times. "I've always said the talking pictures talk too much anyway."
Besides, he added, "I'm out of place doing sophistication. I'm so uncomfortable in a tuxedo."
Information about survivors and funeral plans was unavailable late Wednesday.
