Before he was a president duking it out with terrorists on "Air Force One" or even before he was a fugitive, Harrison Ford was just a man trying to make it in Hollywood.


Ford, now 71, was in his late thirties in this vintage 1980 photo and little did he know, his best years were ahead of him with the Indiana Jones franchise taking off and an Oscar nomination on the way.


This was decades before his Calista days, but judging by this picture, we think he still would have made her swoon.



(h/t Reddit)





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