Harrison Ford
| Name: | Harrison Ford |
| Also Known As: | |
| Occupation: | actor |
| Medium: | film, television |
| Works: | American Graffiti, Hanover Street, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, The Fugitive, Witness, The Virginian |
| Official Website(s): | |
| Fan Website(s): | Harrison Ford Web |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Harrison Ford is an American actor, best known in fandom for his roles as Han Solo in Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones movies.
Other roles include those in Blade Runner, Witness, Heroes, The Frisco Kid, Apocalypse Now, and The Mosquito Coast.
Relationship to Fandom
Ford has had an uneasy relationship with fandom. In 1981, a fan wrote to the Harrison Ford zine, Rogue's Gallery #3 about their zine's beginning:
I'm not surprised that you haven't heard from Harrison about the fan club. We started out intending to be a fan club, got in touch with Pat McQueeney [1] and got the ball rolling. It didn't roll very far. Harrison said flatly that he didn't want any kind of club! Ok, we're flexible. So we went ahead with the club zine, FACETS, AND he's quite happy with it this way, I guess. [2]
This connection was established, though did not bring as much joy as fans had hoped. In 1985, Emerson wrote McQueeney asking her to ask Ford if he would attend Harrison Ford Mini Con. McQueeney's answer was discouraging. See The McQueeney Letter.
In 1997, Ford said: "I lost my privacy in a pact with the devil but I don't want your sympathy." [3]
Zine Fandom
Harrison Ford fanzines started as an offshoot of Star Wars fanzines, and were usually Han Solo-centric zines that branched out to include fan fiction from the Indiana Jones movies, Witness, and other films starring Ford. They usually included gen and het stories, sometimes explicit, that paired Ford's characters with female characters from the movies or original characters.
The Harrison Ford Filmography was a 1982 fanzine listing all his film and television appearances. Hi-Gain was a 1970s Harrison Ford newsletter.
Through the 80s and 90s, there were several long-running Harrison Ford fanzines, such as Facets (10 issues, 1979 - 1983), Flip of a Coin (17 issues at least, 1983 - 1996), and Choice Parts, which often included fanfiction from Ford's films, including (but not limited to) Star Wars and Indiana Jones. The Fanzine Library collection of Ford zines also includes four issues of Absorbing Ford (4 issues, 1982-1985).
Harrison Ford Fan fiction had its own section on the Corellian Embassy archive.
Indiana Jones fanzines included: Archaeology 101, Field Studies, Fortune and Glory, and Well of the Souls.
Harrison Ford Fanzines
| Zine Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|
| Absorbing Ford | 1983-1985 |
| Archaeology 101 | 1981-1985 |
| BetterIdeaZine (letterzine) | 1987-1996 |
| Chameleon | mid 1980s |
| Choice Parts | 1987-1989 |
| Crack of a Whip | |
| Facets | 1979-1983 |
| Fans of Ford Newsletter | 1982-1984 |
| Field Studies | 1983-1994 |
| Flip of a Coin | 1983-1996 |
| Fortune and Glory | 1985-1989 |
| HA-EF (German zine) |
1986-ish |
| Harrison Ford Filmography | 1982 |
| Harrison Ford Fun Book | 1983 |
| Hi-Gain | c. 1979 |
| Know Where Your Heroes Are | 1983 |
| Perceptions | 1984 |
| The Rogue | ?-1986 |
| Rogue's Gallery | 1981-1985 |
| Shadow Dance | 1983 |
| VHF: The Complete Book of Lyrics | 1982 |
| Well of the Souls | 1982-1991 |
Vid Fandom
- In 2009, a Vimeo community for Harrison Ford-related vids was just at harrisonfordfanvideos.
Other Fanworks
- VHF, set of nine audiotapes of filk songs about many of Ford's roles (1982-1984)
- Harrison Ford Calendar (2002-2003)
- RPF: e.g. works tagged Harrison Ford at Archive of Our Own
References
- ^ Harrison Ford's publicity agent
- ^ comment by Jane Firmstone in Rogue's Gallery #3
- ^ from an interview or article in "Express," September 10, 1997