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It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

Harrison Ford

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Harrison Ford
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: July 13
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