Han Solo Actor Harrison Ford Once A Roadie For The Doors
Believe It Or Not? Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford Has had an unbelievable acting career with 59 nominations and 46 awards. He had a long resume of movies with roles that made him a household name. One credit to his resume you might not know about. This is one fact about the actor that few knew about Harrison Ford. The story he lived to tell about an unbelievable week and a half of his life.
The Doors
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In 1968 Harrison Ford Was A Roadie For The Doors
A week and a half story that will forever be in the memory of rock and roll music. The Interview clip from MTV’s Big Picture show in 1989 promoting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade about his brief time on the camera crew for The Doors. Youtube video Harrison explains the experience in an interview in the ’80s. The legendary actor says: “I worked on a road tour film of The Doors, we went around for about a week and a half. A concert tour.” He continues, “When it was over, I was one step away from joining a Jesuit monastery. I thought it was cool, I thought it was hip, but I couldn’t keep up with those guys. It was too much.”
Watch The Full Special from MTV’s Big Picture Show Here:
How Did The Offer Of Being A Rodie For The Doors Come To Reality?
In 1968, he was still working as a carpenter when a call soon after from his friend from UCLA, Paul Ferrara, asked him to come out and help out as a cameraman for a new film. In another interview with Farout magazine. Harrison Ford Says’ ”
“I was part of the camera crew, second camera. I don’t think any of it was in focus. Not a bit of it. Those were the old days.”
He survived being around the Doors when they were well into their party days on tour. Some of the footage survived the cutting room floor.
Read more on the incredible job of being a roadie for Jim Morrison and The Doors from Far Out Magazine
2024 Oscar Nominations
With the 96th annual Academy Awards taking place on March 10, nominations for the coveted awards show have been announced Tuesday morning (January 23).
Jack Quaid and Zazie Beetz announced the nominees live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. In addition to the Oscars airing live on March 10 from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, the ceremony will start an hour earlier at 7 p.m. ET. Jimmy Kimmel is returning as the host for the second year in a row, his fourth time hosting the event overall. Watch the show on ABC, streaming on Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV, or on ABC.com and the ABC app by authenticating with your provider.
About This Year’s Films
Fantastic films are nominated for this year’s Oscars, with Oppenheimer, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Holdovers, The Color Purple, Maestro, American Fiction, and Past Lives taking a lot of nominations in the major categories. This year, 321 feature films were eligible for the Oscars, and 265 of those qualified for the Best Picture category. For the first time in history, three of the ten movies nominated for best picture were directed by a female, the most in Oscars history. Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Celine Song’s Past Lives are battling it out against directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Bradley Cooper. Only four years have included films directed by women for best picture: Lone Scherfig’s An Education, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, Siân Heder’s CODA, and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Three of these women-directed films won best picture in their respective Oscar-nominated years: The Hurt Locker, Nomadland, and CODA.
Take a look below at this year’s Oscar nominations:
Born in Mt Clemens, Screamin’ Scott has been a part of the Detroit airwaves for 30-plus years. With 40 years of experience in radio. When he’s not out on the streets for WCSX, you can find him devoting time to local charities with his, “Screamin Angels”; and for 16 years with Rock 4 Tots charity. And last 10 years with his local band, "Chit!." Screamin Scott likes to write about nostalgic Detroit area memories, classic rock, and local metro Detroit topics.
