For the past five years, it seemed thatHarrison Ford was happier out of the spotlight than on the silver screen. Since 2000, Ford has appeared in only four movies, none of which made much of an impression at the box office.
That all changed in 2008 when Ford strapped back on his trusty whip and went adventuring again in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the fourth film in the Indiana Jones series. In order to lure Ford out of his semi-retirement, Paramount agreed to a lucrative deal that split almost all of the film's earnings (after the studio made back its production and advertising costs) between Ford, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
As a result of the deal, Ford earned $65 million between June 2008 and June 2009, making him the highest-paid actor on our annualCelebrity 100 list. (Even though the movie was released in May of 2008, Ford didn't earn his money until several months later.)
