The Fugitive

Harrison Ford (Actor) .. Dr Richard Kimble

Born: July 13, 1942 in Chicago

Best Known For: Playing Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

Early-life: Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago. He has a younger brother called Terence. Harrison started acting while at Ripon College, Wisconsin, and after dropping out, moved to LA, where he hoped to get a job as a radio announcer. Instead, he signed a contract with Columbia and later Universal and made ends meet as a carpenter. His big-screen debut came in the 1966 James Coburn offering Dead Heat On a Merry-Go-Round.

Career: After being hired to make cabinets for George Lucas, Ford was cast in the director's 1973 film American Graffiti. They reunited for the original Star Wars trilogy, which made both their names. His role as intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels cemented his position as one of the world's best-loved heroes. Ford was Oscar-nominated for Peter Weir's thriller Witness. He worked with the director again on 1986 project The Mosquito Coast, which despite being a flop remains one of his favourite movies. Other notable projects include The Fugitive, Blade Runner, Working Girl, Patriot Games and Cowboys & Aliens.

Quote: "It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."

Trivia: In 2014, he suffered an ankle injury during the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).

Tommy Lee Jones (Actor) .. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard

Born: September 15, 1946 in San Saba, Texas

Best Known For: The Men in Black movies and his Oscar-winning role in The Fugitive.

Early-life: Born in San Saba, Texas, on September 15, 1946. His father worked in the oil industry, his mother spent time as a police officer, teacher and beauty salon owner. They married and divorced twice. After graduating from high school, he attended Harvard College on a scholarship, where one of his room-mates was future American vice-president Al Gore. He was also a star American Football player for the university team.

Career: Jones landed an agent and a role in a Broadway production of A Patriot for Me just 10 days after graduating from Harvard in 1969. A year later he made his film debut in Love Story, based on Erich Segal's novel of the same name. Segal claimed he based the lead character of Oliver (played by Ryan O'Neal) on Jones and Gore. Jones then spent four years in soap opera One Life to Live. The film Coal Miner's Daughter made critics sit up and notice him in 1980. Acclaimed performances in Lonesome Dove, The Fugitive, JFK and Men in Black followed. Other well-received projects include No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah (for which he received an Oscar nomination), Lincolm and The Homesman.

Quote: "It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That too is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on."

Joe Pantoliano (Actor) .. Cosmo Renfro

Julianne Moore (Actor) .. Dr Anne Eastman

Born: December 03, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Best Known For: Her numerous acclaimed movie performances.

Early-life: Born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. She changed her name to avoid clashing identities with another actress. Her brother is author Peter Moore Smith, and she also has a younger sister named Valerie. The daughter of a Scottish social worker mother and a military judge father, she lived in many different places as a child. After high school, she studied acting at Boston University, making ends meet as a waitress, and moved to New York on graduating in 1983.

Career: Moore started her professional career on stage and made her TV debut in 1984 with a recurring role in soap Edge of Night. She then had a two-year stint in As the World Turns, before taking roles in numerous forgettable movies. First made a mark on the big screen in 1993 with small roles in Benny and Joon, Short Cuts and The Fugitive. She followed those up with bigger parts in Nine Months and The Lost World. Her first Oscar nomination followed for 1997's Boogie Nights. She's since been nominated for The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours. Other projects include The Kids Are All Right, Carrie and playing Sarah Palin in Game Change.

Quote: "At school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."

Trivia: She is an ambassador for Save the Children.

Sela Ward (Actor) .. Helen Kimble

Born: July 11, 1956 in Meridian, Mississippi

Best Known For: Playing Lily Manning in Once and Again.

Early-life: Sela Ann Ward was born in Meridian, Mississippi on July 11, 1956. She attended the University of Alabama and graduated with a degree in fine art and advertising in 1977. As a student, she was Homecoming Queen, a cheerleader for the Crimson Tide football team and a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She moved to New York to work in advertising and supplemented her income with modelling work, leading her to be featured in TV adverts. Eventually, she moved to California to pursue acting.

Career: Ward's first TV role was in Emerald Point N.A.S. and her first film role was in The Man Who Loved Women (1983). She got guest roles in TV and film throughout the rest of the 1980s, such as in Nothing in Common (1986). From 1991 to 1996, she played Teddy Reed in the TV series Sisters. She has since had recurring roles in Once and Again, House, CSI: NY and Graves. Her film credits include The Fugitive (1993), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Gone Girl (2014) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

Quote: "If I wasn't an actress, I would run a fortune 500 company."

Trivia: Won a Golden Globe in 2001 for her performance in Once and Again.

Andreas Katsulas (Actor) .. Sykes

Jeroen Krabbe (Actor) .. Dr Charles Nichols

Daniel Roebuck (Actor) .. Biggs

L Scott Caldwell (Actor) .. Poole

Tom Wood (Actor) .. Newman

Andrew Davis (Director)

11:45 pm - 01:00 am, Thursday, January 8 on 5 HD (105)

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