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The long-awaited memoir from spellbinding, award-winning author and actor Alex Cord with over 60 exclusive photos!. With chiseled good looks, a love for acting, and a smile that melted the hearts of millions, Alex Cord became a household name. During his fifty plus years career, he has played hundreds of leading roles in movies, TV shows, and on stage in New York and London. This is the story of his life. In From Wheelbarrow to Ferrari and Back Again, legendary film actor Alex Cord recalls the people who shaped his life and career. From Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr, Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Sir Laurence Olivier, Audie Murphy and Ernest Borgnine to Prince Charles, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Chuck Connors, Ann-Margret, Jean Simmons, Angie Dickinson, Stella Stevens and Britt Ekland. Alex pays homage to those he loved and respected. He recalls his life and career spanning generations with unexpected twists and turns on every page. He includes chapters on his early childhood, how he discovered acting, struck stardom with movies like Synanon, Stilleto, The Last Grenade, Stagecoach and Greyeagle, through to his golden years in Hollywood, his comeback in the 1980's with Airwolf and how his life led him through the devastating pain of losing a child. From Wheelbarrow to Ferrari and Back Again tells the gripping story of a boy who wanted to be an actor-and made his dreams come true. It's about the power of dreams and believing in them.

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Alex Cord is an American actor who is best known for his portrayal of Michael Coldsmith Briggs III, better known as Archangel, in fifty-five episodes of the CBS adventure television series Airwolf. ...I felt a real affinity with the characters and hope to see this book as a motion picture. HARRISON FORD, Actor Writers, said Anthony Burgess, must know about things as well as words. Alex Cord knows about cutting horses, love for a woman, and the long shadow cast by the headstone of a lost son. These he tells about with true feeling. THOMAS McINTYRE, Author, Seasons of Days: A Hunting Life Alex has written one of the finest love stories I've ever read. It's sure to make a great movie. ERNEST BORGNINE, Academy Award-winning Actor Alex is an excellent horseman, an excellent actor, and as expected has come up with an excellent book. SYLVESTER STALLONE, Actor, Writer CORD's award-winning second book 'A FEATHER IN THE RAIN' is currently heading towards its destiny as a Hollywood movie. CORD's new book THE MAN WHO WOULD BE GOD has just been released and you will love it.

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