He held many odd jobs before making it big and was even a stagehand for the legendary rock group The Doors.
Ford originally traveled to Los Angeles in 1964 to apply for a job doing radio voice overs. Lucky for us, he didn't get it and eventually started doing bit movie roles that required little to no talking for about $150 a week.
Most of the films he appeared in he wasn't even credited for. He ended up on the bottom of the hiring list after offending producer Jerry Tokovsky.
After being fed up with the roles that were offered to him, Ford decided to take up carpentry, teaching himself the tools of the trade. He used this to support his then-wife and two sons, and managed to secure a job helping out as a stagehand for The Doors to make ends meet.
It was the carpentry skill that led him to build cabinets for George Lucas, landing him a role in “American Graffiti.” The rest is history.
