Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is the actor who played Han Solo in the original trilogy and The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter at the time that Han Solo and the other characters were being cast. George Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss (who co-starred with Ford in American Graffiti) were in the same building Harrison was for Star Wars auditions. When Lucas saw Harrison, he asked Ford to read sides with the other actors. Eventually, as Ford says, "he just got used to me."