Leon Ford is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television and theatre productions. He is best known for his roles in the television series The Cooks

The Cooks

The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters...

, Changi and the telemovie Stepfather of the Bride.

Ford portrayed 1st Lt. Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones in the Emmy award winning HBO miniseries "The Pacific", which follows the story of World War II Marines through different battles of the Pacific theater of war. The critically acclaimed series is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

He has also appeared in many other television series including All Saints

All Saints (TV series)

All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

, East West 101

East West 101

East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue....

and McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

, the 2005 movie The Great Raid and voiced a character in the 2008 stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animated movie $9.99

$9.99

$9.99 is a 2008 Australian/Israeli stop motion film written and directed by Tatia Rosenthal, with the screenplay by Etgar Keret. This film marks the third collaboration between Rosenthal and Keret...

.

In addition to acting, he is also both a director and screenwriter. In 2010, Ford both wrote and directed the movie "Griff the Invisible

Griff the Invisible

Griff the Invisible is an Australian romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Leon Ford.The story is about Griff a socially awkward office worker who spends his days being bullied by his workmates. At night he is Griff the Invisible, a superhero who roams the streets of his local...

", starring "Ryan Kwanten

Ryan Kwanten

Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 on the Australian soap-opera Home and Away...

" as a man who is bullied by his coworkers during the day, but a superhero by night. The film premiered at the 2010 "Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

" (TIFF), where it was well-received by audiences and critics.

It should also be noted that Ford is also an accomplished author, and in 2009 penned the story "What Doesn't Kill You", the story of a man waking up to find that, instead of the ideal life he’d been living, everything has gone horribly wrong overnight. He wakes up in the wrong house, his wife doesn’t love him anymore, he doesn’t have a job anymore, and one of his friends betrayed him in the worst possible way. Plus his car exploded.

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