Actor Glenn Ford dies at 90

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Glenn Ford, who brought a quiet reserve to the screen in movies dating back to Hollywood's golden era, has died at 90 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Paramedics called to his home Wednesday afternoon found him dead, police told The New York Times. Ford had suffered several strokes in the 1990s.

Ford was best known for his roles in such films as "Blackboard Jungle," "Gilda" and "Pocketful of Miracles."

His credits also included "Teahouse of the August Moon," "Don't Go Near the Water" and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."

Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford May 1, 1916, in Quebec, the only child of Newton and Hannah Ford.

His family moved to Santa Monica, Calif., when he was 7. He began working with local theater groups after high school, and broke into Hollywood in the 1939 feature "Heaven with a Barbed-Wire Fence," the Times said.

He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943, where he met actress-dancer Eleanor Powell. They married, and had a son, Peter, but divorced after 16 years of marriage.

Ford married actress Kathryn Hays in 1966, but the marriage ended quickly, and Ford's 1977 marriage to Cynthia Hayward ended in 1984.

Ford also married his nurse, Jeanne Baus, in 1993, but the marriage lasted just a short time, the newspaper said.