In "Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens," Ford, who always wanted Solo to die in the film series, finally got his wish. So, at age 73 when the film was released on December 18, 2015, Ford officially appeared to be done with "Star Wars." However, "Episode VII" director J.J. Abrams had other plans and brought Ford's Solo back for a brief fantasy encounter with Adam Driver's Ben Solo-Kylo Ren in "Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker," making the actor 77 when the film was released on December 20, 2019.
Of course, "Star Wars" didn't mark the first time Ford reprised a character decades after first playing him. Nearly 19 years after the May 24, 1989 release of the last film in the original Indy trilogy, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Ford returned for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
When the fourth Indy film hit theaters on May 22, 2008, Ford was 65 years old. When Ford reprised Indy for the fifth and final chapter in the saga, he was 80 years old when the film was released in theaters on June 30, 2023.
