![]() According to the book How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, casting director Fred Roos knew that Ford was a carpenter, so Roos hired him to install a door at the studio. However, the role in American Graffiti did not lead directly to Star Wars. American Graffiti was a huge surprise hit, which gave Lucas license to make a little space opera he had been thinking about. In that movie, Ford played the arrogant Bob Falfa, who challenges one of the protagonists to a drag race. That was 1973’s American Graffiti, a look back at the year 1962 that paid tribute to Lucas’ love of all things cars and racing. Star Wars wasn’t even Ford’s first movie for George Lucas. He has a small speaking part as a bellhop. That distinction goes to a 1966 film called Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round that is only remembered because it’s Harrison Ford’s first movie. Most people know that Star Wars was not Harrison Ford’s first movie.
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