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Ford was born July 13, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois ' Swedish Covenant Hospital.

His mother, Dorothy ( née Dora Nidelman ), was a homemaker and former radio actress, and his father, Christopher Ford ( born John William Ford ), was 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 and his brother were raised, Ford has jokingly responded, " Democrat ," " to be liberals of every stripe ".

In a television interview shown in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had on his life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated " As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've always felt Jewish.