Harrison Ford’s 1970s side-hustle supplying the stars: ‘That’s my pot dealer!’By now, it’s tough to imagine a time when Harrison Ford was anything other than Harrison Ford, the movie star. He needed money, especially because, by the end of the 1970s, Ford already had a wife and two kids, and those mouths won’t feed themselves. Harrison Ford being interviewed in 1990. The cover is that Ford was actually just the Didions’ carpenter, that’s why he was always at their house. At one point, he really did build them a front porch, or at least the guise of building that porch allowed him to bring home some money to support his family, but I’m not really sure what’s a wilder story: Harrison Ford the weed dealer to the stars, or Harrison Ford the self-caught semi-professional carpenter to the literary icons.