In the 1993 film "The Fugitive," Harrison Ford plays the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble.
Kimble is a Chicago vascular surgeon convicted of murdering his wife, Helen, despite insisting that a one-armed man committed the crime. After escaping custody in a dramatic bus-and-train wreck, he investigates the conspiracy while being pursued by Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard, played by Tommy Lee Jones.
The film was directed by Andrew Davis and adapted from the 1960s television series of the same name. It became a major commercial and critical success, earning seven Academy Award nominations. Tommy Lee Jones won Best Supporting Actor for Gerard, while Ford received a Best Actor nomination.
A common mix-up is confusing Ford’s role with Jones’s: Ford is the fugitive surgeon, while Jones is the relentless marshal hunting him. The film also helped establish Ford in a more vulnerable, physically demanding dramatic role beyond his better-known action-hero characters.