- 2009: Played Immigrations officer Max Brogan in "Crossing Over"
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male Star
- 2008: Reprised role of Indy for the fourth installment of the adventure series, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"; film re-teamed Ford with George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg
- 2006: Cast as a security specialist, forced into robbing a bank in order to protect his family in the thriller, "Firewall"
- 2003: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (June)
- 2002: Received a reported $25 million salary to star as a Russian submarine officer in "K-19: The Widowmaker"
- 2000: Played a professor whose wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) is haunted by a ghost in "What Lies Beneath"
- 1999: Starred as widower cop obsessed with learning details of his late wife's affair in Pollack's "Random Hearts"
- 1998: Played a cargo pilot opposite Anne Heche in the romantic comedy "Six Days, Seven Nights"
- 1997: Starred as a NYC detective opposite Brad Pitt's Irish terrorist in "The Devil's Own"
- 1997: Portrayed the President of the United States in Wolfgang Petersen's "Air Force One"
- 1995: Played role originated by Humphrey Bogart in Sydney Pollack's ill-advised remake of "Sabrina"
- 1994: Reprised role of Jack Ryan in "Clear and Present Danger"
- 1993: Cast as Dr. Richard Kimble in big screen adaptation of "The Fugitive"
- 1992: Assumed the Jack Ryan Character (replacing Alec Baldwin) in Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games"
- 1991: Played a ruthless litigator transformed by a brain injury in Mike Nichols' "Regarding Henry"
- 1990: Played an adulterous husband with a terrible secret in Alan J Pakula's "Presumed Innocent"
- 1989: Donned the fedora again for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
- 1988: Did rare comic turn opposite Melanie Griffith in Mike Nichols' "Working Girl"
- 1986: Teamed with Weir again for "The Mosquito Coast"
- 1985: Earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination as a detective in Peter Weir's "Witness"
- 1984: Reprised role of Indy for "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
- 1983: Returned to the role of Han Solo for "Return of the Jedi"
- 1982: Portrayed android bounty hunter in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner"
- 1981: First feature starring role, playing the swashbuckling archaeologist Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"; executive produced by Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg
- 1980: Reprised the role of Han Solo for "The Empire Strikes Back"
- 1977: Breakthrough role, playing Han Solo in George Lucas' "Star Wars"
- 1973: First major success, George Lucas' "American Graffiti"
- 1970: TV-movie debut, "The Intruders" (NBC)
- 1968: Moved over to Universal from Columbia; featured in film "Journey to Shiloh"
- 1968: Gave up acting and worked as a carpenter; built Sergio Mendes' $100,000 recording studio; also built elaborate entrance for Francis Ford Coppola's offices at Goldwyn Studios
- 1966: Film acting debut, a one-line appearance as a bellboy in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round"
- 1964: Signed a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures at $150 per week
- 1964: Moved to Laguna Beach, California and appeared in a local production of "John Brown's Body"
- 1963: Professional debut in a variety of musicals and dramas in summer stock in Williams Bay, Wisconsin
- Grew up in Park Ridge and Morton Grove, Illinois




