"Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones".
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was born July 13, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois' Swedish Covenant Hospital,to Dorothy (née Dora Nidelman), a homemaker and former radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an advertising executive and a former actor. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945. Ford's paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively.Ford's maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). When asked in which religion he was raised, Harrison Ford has jokingly responded, "Democrat."He has also said that he feels "Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor."
