BIG STAR


In 1980, aclaimed director Steven Spielberg joined George Lucas to develop a project called "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Their first choice for the main character, an archeologist called Indiana Jones, was the actor Tom Selleck. But he couldn't accept it because was involved in another project called Magnum P.I. The second Spielberg's choice was Harrison. For instance, he scored once again starring Jones in the successful Raiders film and two sequels (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)

 



A gritty performance as a cop in the futuristic Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1982 demonstrated that he could deliver more than popcorn heroics.

Another cop role, in Witness (1985), had a warmer side and some repressed romantic sparks; his performance earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe nomination and cemented his stardom with "grown-up" audiences.


 


When the 90's came, Harrison was offered the part of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
Another Golden Globe nomination came from The Fugitive (1993). Harrison's other well-known films include Presumed Innocent (1990), Sabrina (1995), The Devil's Own (1997) and Air Force One (1997) when he played the president of the United Stated being hijacked by terrorists.
While often playing the leading man or the hero of many action films, he took to the dark side as an adulterous husband with a terrible secret in What Lies Beneath (2000)

 



The 2001 edition of the Guinness Book of Records listed him as the richest actor alive: his reported salary for the 2002 film K-19: The Widowmaker was more than 25 million dollars. Nowadays the U.S. box office grosses of all HF films combined totals of more than 3.18 billion dollars, with worldwide grosses of approximately 5.65 billion.