John Ford
Born: 1894-02-01 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA
Died: 1973-08-31
Known For: Directing
Biography
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His four Academy Awards for Best Director (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record, and one of those films, How Green Was My Valley (1941), also won Best Picture. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although nearly all of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Ford's films and personality were held in high regard by his colleagues, with Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles among those who have named him as one of the greatest directors of all time. In particular, Ford was a pioneer of location shooting and the long shot which frames his characters against a vast, harsh and rugged natural terrain.
Filmography
2023
- Filmmakers for the Prosecution as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019
- John Ford: The Man Who Invented America as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
- Five Came Back as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Spanish Western as Self (archive footage)
2013
- John Ford & Monument Valley as Self (archive footage)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Serenity at Sea: John Ford and the Araner as Himself (archive footage)
- Monument Valley: John Ford Country as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2004
- Battleground ... (Director)
2000
- Shooting War as himself
- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self (archive footage)
- John Wayne-A Life on Film as Self (archive footage)
1999
- National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway as Himself - Filmmaker (archive footage) (unaccredited)
1992
- Unforgiven ... (Thanks)
- Fonda on Fonda as Self (archive footage)
- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Self
- Omnibus: John Ford, Part One as Self (archive footage)
1989
- John Ford's America as Himself (Archive Footage)
1976
- Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend as Himself/Interviewer
1973
1971
- Directed by John Ford as Self (uncredited)
- The American West of John Ford as Self
- Vietnam! Vietnam! ... (Executive Producer)
1970
1965
- 7 Women ... (Director)
- Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland as self
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn ... (Director)
1963
- Donovan's Reef ... (Director)
1962
- How the West Was Won ... (Director)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... (Director)
- Flashing Spikes ... (Director)
1961
- Alcoa Premiere ... (Director)
- Two Rode Together ... (Director)
1960
- The Alamo ... (Second Unit Director)
- Sergeant Rutledge ... (Director)
- The Colter Craven Story ... (Director)
1959
- The Horse Soldiers as Ned (uncredited)
- Korea ... (Director)
1958
- The Last Hurrah ... (Director)
- Gideon's Day ... (Director)
- The Western: A Lost TV Special as Self
1957
- Wagon Train ... (Director)
- The Wings of Eagles ... (Director)
- The Rising of the Moon ... (Director)
- The Growler Story ... (Director)
1956
- The Searchers ... (Director)
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Self - Introduction
- Mister Roberts ... (Director)
- The Jane Wyman Show ... (Director)
- The Long Gray Line ... (Director)
- The Red, White and Blue Line ... (Director)
1953
- Mogambo ... (Director)
- The Sun Shines Bright ... (Producer)
1952
- The Quiet Man ... (Producer)
- What Price Glory ... (Director)
- Ton Diagonismon Dia Thn Anadixin Tis Star Ellas as Himself (Grand Ball Attendee)
1951
- The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
- This Is Korea! ... (Director)
1950
- Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Wagon Master ... (Director)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home ... (Director)
1949
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ... (Director)
- Mighty Joe Young ... (Executive Producer)
1948
- Fort Apache ... (Director)
- 3 Godfathers ... (Director)
1947
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
1946
- My Darling Clementine ... (Director)
- It's Your America ... (Director)
1945
- They Were Expendable ... (Director)
- Nazi Concentration Camps ... (Producer)
1944
- In Memoriam Manuel Quezon ... (Director)
1943
- Show-Business at War as Self
- December 7th ... (Director)
- Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines as J.P. Baldwin
- At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army ... (Director)
- We Sail at Midnight ... (Director)
- German Industrial Manpower ... (Director)
1942
- The Battle of Midway ... (Director)
- Sex Hygiene ... (Director)
- Torpedo Squadron ... (Director)
1941
- How Green Was My Valley ... (Director)
- Tobacco Road ... (Director)
- Women in Defense ... (Director)
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath ... (Director)
- The Long Voyage Home ... (Director)
1939
- Stagecoach ... (Director)
- Drums Along the Mohawk ... (Director)
- Young Mr. Lincoln ... (Director)
1938
- Four Men and a Prayer ... (Director)
- Submarine Patrol ... (Director)
1937
- The Hurricane ... (Director)
- Wee Willie Winkie ... (Director)
1936
- The Prisoner of Shark Island ... (Director)
- Mary of Scotland ... (Director)
- The Plough and the Stars ... (Director)
- The Last Outlaw ... (Story)
1935
- The Informer ... (Director)
- The Whole Town's Talking ... (Director)
- Steamboat Round the Bend ... (Director)
1934
- The Lost Patrol ... (Director)
- Judge Priest ... (Director)
- The World Moves On ... (Director)
1933
- Pilgrimage ... (Director)
- Doctor Bull ... (Director)
1931
- Arrowsmith ... (Director)
- Seas Beneath ... (Director)
- The Brat ... (Director)
1930
- Men without Women ... (Director)
- Up the River ... (Director)
- Born Reckless ... (Director)
1929
- Salute ... (Director)
- Strong Boy ... (Director)
- The Black Watch ... (Director)
- Big Time as John Ford (uncredited)
1928
- Four Sons ... (Director)
- Hangman's House ... (Director)
- Riley the Cop ... (Director)
- Napoleon's Barber ... (Director)
1927
- Upstream ... (Director)
- Mother Machree ... (Director)
1926
- 3 Bad Men ... (Director)
- The Blue Eagle ... (Director)
- The Shamrock Handicap ... (Director)
1925
- The Iron Horse ... (Director)
- Thank You ... (Director)
- The Fighting Heart ... (Director)
- Lightnin' ... (Director)
- Kentucky Pride ... (Director)
1924
- Hearts of Oak ... (Director)
1923
- Cameo Kirby ... (Director)
- The Face on the Barroom Floor ... (Director)
- North of Hudson Bay ... (Director)
- Hoodman Blind ... (Director)
- Three Jumps Ahead ... (Director)
1922
- Little Miss Smiles ... (Director)
- Silver Wings ... (Director)
- The Village Blacksmith ... (Director)
1921
- Sure Fire ... (Director)
- Action ... (Director)
- The Freeze-Out ... (Director)
- Desperate Trails ... (Director)
- The Wallop ... (Director)
- Jackie ... (Director)
- The Big Punch ... (Director)
1920
- Just Pals ... (Director)
- Hitchin' Posts ... (Director)
- The Girl in Number 29 ... (Director)
- The Prince of Avenue A ... (Director)
1919
- Bare Fists ... (Director)
- Marked Men ... (Director)
- By Indian Post ... (Director)
- The Fighting Brothers ... (Director)
- A Fight For Love ... (Director)
- Roped ... (Director)
- The Rustlers ... (Director)
- The Gun Packer ... (Director)
- Riders of Vengeance ... (Director)
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat ... (Director)
- The Ace of the Saddle ... (Director)
- Gun Law ... (Director)
- The Last Outlaw ... (Director)
- A Gun Fightin' Gentleman ... (Director)
- Rider of the Law ... (Director)
1918
- Wild Women ... (Director)
- Hell Bent ... (Director)
- Thieves' Gold ... (Director)
- The Scarlet Drop ... (Director)
- A Woman's Fool ... (Director)
- Three Mounted Men ... (Director)
- The Phantom Riders ... (Director)
- The Craving ... (Writer)
1917
- Straight Shooting ... (Director)
- Bucking Broadway ... (Director)
- Cheyenne's Pal ... (Director)
- The Trail of Hate as Lt. Jack Brewer
- The Soul Herder ... (Director)
- The Secret Man ... (Director)
- The Scrapper as Buck, the scrapper
- A Marked Man ... (Director)
- The Tornado as Jack Dayton (as Jack Ford)
1916
- The Purple Mask as (unconfirmed)
- The Bandit's Wager
1915
- The Birth of a Nation as Klansman (uncredited)
- The Broken Coin as Sacchio's Accomplice (as Jack Ford)
1914
- A Study in Scarlet as John H. Watson, M.D.
- Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery