JOHN FORD
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Date of birth
1 February 1894
Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA
Date of death
31 August 1973
Palm Desert, California, USA. (stomach cancer)
Birth name
John Martin Feeney
Nickname
Pappy
Coach
Uncle Jack
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Spouse
Mary McBryde Smith (3 July 1920 - 31 August 1973) (his death)
Trade mark
Regardless of where his westerns were set, most of the exteriors were filmed in Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah, USA.
Funerals goers in his movies usually sing the hymn "Shall We Gather at the River."
If a doomed character plays poker, the last hand he plays before going to his death will be the "death hand" (two aces, one of them the ace of spades, and two 8s; so-called because Wild Bill Hickock held this hand when he was murdered). The hand will be shown in close-up.
Trivia
There was a group of actors, known informally as the John Ford Stock Company (John Wayne, Harry Carey, John Carradine, Henry Fonda, etc.) that turned up regularly in Ford's films. They knew how to work with Ford and with each other, which suited Ford's directing style: "I tell the actors what I want and they give it to me, usually on the first take."
Father of Barbara Ford.
John Wayne called him by the nickname "Coach."
First recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award [1973]
Brother of actor-director Francis Ford.
Supporting members of Ford's "Stock Company" include Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Jane Darwell, Francis Ford, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Mae Marsh, Mildred Natwick, John Qualen, Woody Strode, Tom Tyler, and Patrick Wayne.
The character "John Dodge" in Ford's movie The Wings of Eagles (1957) is a spoof of Ford.
Ford often used members of his family (including his two brothers, Francis Ford and Edward O'Fearna) in his films, but only in subordinate roles. Patrick Ford recalled, "My conversations with him, as his only son -- that I know of -- were always 'Yessir', until one day I said 'no sir', and then I was no longer around. Our family life was pretty much that of a ship master and his crew, or a wagon master and his people. He gave the orders, and we carried them out".
His tombstone is marked 'Admiral John Ford'.
Served as actress Anna Massey's Godfather
John Wayne called him by the nickname "Pappy."
He has referred to English director Brian Desmond Hurst as his "cousin".
He was an infamously prickly personality, having constantly mocked John Wayne as a "big idiot" and having punched an unsuspecting Henry Fonda during the shooting of Mister Roberts (1955).
Was voted the 3rd Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, right after Orson Welles, who himself considered Ford to be the best director of all time.
Embarrassed Jean-Luc Godard, then a young journalist for Les Cahiers du Cinema, during an interview. When Godard asked the famous question: "What Brought you to Hollywood ?" Ford replied: "A train".
Personal quotes
[Darryl F. Zanuck on The Grapes of Wrath (1940)] "It's a good picture. It's meaty and down-to-earth. But I think it needs a happier ending."
"I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them."
"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
"It's no use talking to me about art, I make pictures to pay the rent."
"I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk."
"For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow the director to reveal his personality."
[On John Wayne] "Duke is the best actor in Hollywood."
Mini Biography
The most honored of all American movie directors, John Ford was lauded by critics for his poetic vision, but he always insisted he was simply "a hard-nosed director" and that filmmaking was just "a job of work" to him. In truth, Ford had a singular vision which he brought to a vast body of work; most of his films (excepting routine studio assignments) are immediately recognizable as his and his alone-a remarkable achievement in a time when most films conformed to a studio's "personality," not a director's. There is continuity in Ford's work, as well, not just in his use of a familiar stock company of actors, or in revisiting favorite locations like Utah's Monument Valley, but in recurring themes and a distinctive point of view. Few filmmakers in the history of the medium have left their mark so indelibly on so many outstanding films; and, to Ford buffs, even his minor films have much to offer.
His brother Francis took "Ford" as a stage name and entered pictures in 1907. Young Jack (as he came to be known) joined Francis and his costar/partner Grace Cunard at Universal in 1914, first working as a prop man, then as an actor in Francis' starring serials The Broken Coin (1915) and The Purple Mask (1916). Although Francis frequently quarreled with Universal executives and eventually left the studio, Jack remained; he directed his first two-reeler, The Tornado in 1917, and his first feature, Straight Shooting later that same year. Many of Ford's early films were Westerns, and most of them starred Harry Carey. His already apparent talent for pictorially striking compositions made Ford a natural for horse operas (with their outdoor action scenes, magnificent vistas, etc.), and he worked with top screen cowboys Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, and Tom Mix at Universal and Fox.
Formalizing his screen billing to John Ford in 1923 (an allusion to the Elizabethan playwright of the same name), the director scored with his handling of the John Gilbert vehicle Cameo Kirby (1923), but really shot to the top rank with The Iron Horse (1924), an epic Western detailing the building of the transcontinental railroad, filmed on location under arduous conditions. Another large-scale Western, Three Bad Men (1926), used the Oklahoma land rush as its backdrop; its somewhat lesser reputation stems mainly from the fact that was out of circulation for many years. Its story and characterizations presaged Ford's 1948 production of 3 Godfathers Ford's late silents-especially Four Sons 1928)(-were influenced by the Germanic style of filmmaking then prevalent in Hollywood, but he soon abandoned that highly impressionistic (and to many, highly pretentious) approach to moviemaking. The early talkie days saw Ford, like many other directors, groping for a command of the new storytelling techniques imposed by the addition of sound. He reunited with George O'Brien, the burly, brash young star of Iron Horse and Three Bad Men for Salute (1929) and The Seas Beneath (1931); both films were moderately successful, and Ford maintained his position as one of the top Hollywood directors.
The 1930s found Ford further developing a distinctive style, which he honed both on commercial, work-for-hire movies and on modest, more personal productions. Critics lauded The Informer (1935), a highly stylized story of betrayal during the Irish Revolution for which Ford won a Best Director Oscar; in retrospect, though, it may be that Ford's best work of the period is found in less pretentious efforts including his Will Rogers vehicles (1933's Dr. Bull 1934's Judge Priest 1935's Steamboat 'Round the Bend) and The Whole Town's Talking. By this time he was already one of Hollywood's most colorful and irascible filmmakers. Although publicity shots often showed him clad in tweed jacket, colorful ascot, and neatly creased fedora, he was more comfortable in untied sneakers, a khaki shirt, and a baseball cap. Often when he was nervous, or in deep concentration, Ford would chew on a corner of his handkerchief and let it hang from his mouth. He was contemptuous of authority, and could be vicious in his sarcasm to those he found pretentious, but he was also intensely loyal to his "stock company," and in turn inspired loyalty from cast and crew.
The single most important year of Ford's career was undoubtedly 1939, which saw the release of Drums Along the Mohawk (a stirring drama of colonial America starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert), Young Mr. Lincoln (an inspiring biopic with Fonda as the beloved president), and Stagecoach the latter a milestone not only because it made a star of John Wayne (who'd been an extra for Ford in 1928's Mother Macree, Hangman's House and Four Sons, but because it revitalized a genre long since abandoned to the producers of low-budget, Saturday-matinee "horse operas." Stagecoach which netted Ford another Oscar nomination, sparked interest in big-budget, "adult" Westerns-to which the director would return throughout the remainder of his career. He won back-to-back Oscars for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941), both of which centered on tight-knit families surviving in the face of adversity. Vastly different from his previous films, they showed a more mature talent at work behind the camera. World War 2 intervened and Ford, serving in the Field Photographic Branch of the OSS, turned out several documentaries; two of them, The Battle of Midway (1942) and December 7th (1943), were awarded Oscars. After the war, Ford returned to Hollywood and demonstrated that he hadn't forgotten how to make compelling entertainments: They Were Expendable (1945) vividly chronicled the exploits of PT-boat crews in the South Pacific, and My Darling Clementine (1946), an elegiac Western with some of the director's most memorable images, starring Henry Fonda as a considerably whitewashed Wyatt Earp.
In the late 1940s Ford and producer Merian C. Cooper formed Argosy Productions, a partnership that produced some of his best (and most personal) pictures.Fort Apache (1948)She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949),and Rio Grande (1950) comprised Ford's unofficial Cavalry trilogy; John Wayne starred in all three, supported by many Ford regulars including George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, and Ward Bond. Wagon Master (1950) repackaged elements from My Darling Clementine and was more notable for its western characters and atmosphere than for its story or action. The Quiet Man (1952), which starred Wayne as an American of Irish ancestry who settles on the Emerald Isle, gave Ford ample opportunities to trumpet his own Irish heritage; this stirring, beautiful film (much of it shot on location) won him an unprecedented fourth Oscar.
His other 1950s films vary in quality, although many film fans and critics single out The Searchers (1956), starring Wayne as a single-minded zealot who spends years pursuing the Indians who killed his relatives and kidnapped their young daughter, as the definitive Ford film. Still contentious, Ford was replaced as director of Mister Roberts (1955) by Mervyn LeRoy, reportedly because he quarreled with star Henry Fonda (who'd played the role on Broadway). To many, Ford's later films-including The Last Hurrah (1958), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964)-seemed increasingly sentimental and derivative of earlier, better films. His final feature film, 7 Women (1966), was an odd and unsuccessful throwback to the 1930s both in story and in technique. Although the aging and ill Ford delivered a curmudgeonly "performance" in Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 documentary, Directed by John Ford it is obvious even in his last years that the director's crusty exterior concealed a sentimental heart. Ford was the first recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
OTHER FILMS INCLUDE: 1931: Arrowsmith 1932: Air Mail, Flesh 1933: Pilgrimage 1934: The Lost Patrol, The World Moves On 1936: The Prisoner of Shark Island, Mary of Scotland, The Plough and the Stars 1937: Wee Willie Winkie, The Hurricane 1938: Four Men and a Prayer, Submarine Patrol 1940: The Long Voyage Home 1941:Tobacco Road 1947: The Fugitive 1952: What Price Glory? 1953: The Sun Shines Bright, Mogambo 1955: The Long Gray Line1957: The Wings of Eagles, The Rising of the Moon 1959: Gideon of Scotland Yard The Horse Soldiers 1960: Sergeant Rutledge 1961: Two Rode Together 1963: Donovan's Reef
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Filmography
Director
Blue....John Ford- Duke's Movies
Red.....John Ford's Other Movies
Green..John Ford's Documentaries
1. "Alcoa Presents": - Flashing Spikes (1962)(2002) TV Episode
2. Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976) (Documentary)
3. Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971) (Documentary)(Insufficient information for a profile)
4.7 Women (1966)
5. Young Cassidy (1965) (uncredited)
6. Cheyenne Autumn (1964) ... aka John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn (USA: complete title)
7. Donovan's Reefhttp://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=1889(1963)
8. How the West Was Won(1962) (segment "The Civil War")
9. "Alcoa Premiere" - Flashing Spikes(1962) TV Episode
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)
11. Two Rode Together (1961)
12. "Wagon Train" - The Colter Craven Storyhttp://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=1912 (1960)TV Episode
13. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
14. The Horse Soldiers(1959)
15. Korea (1959)(Documentary)(Insufficient information for a profile)
16. The Last Hurrah (1958)
17. Gideon's Day (1958) ... aka Gideon of Scotland Yard (USA)
18. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
19. The Wings of Eagles (1957)
20. The Searchers (1956)
21. "Screen Directors Playhouse" - Rookie of the Year(1955) TV Episode
22. Bamboo Cross (1955) (TV) "Fireside Theatre" series
23. Mister Roberts (1955)
24. The Long Gray Line (1955)
25. Mogambo (1953)
26. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
27. What Price Glory (1952)
28. The Quiet Man (1952)
29. This Is Korea! (1951) (as Rear Admiral John Ford USNVR Ret.) (Documentary)
30. Rio Grande(1950) ... aka John Ford and Merian C. Cooper's Rio Grande (USA: complete title)
31. Wagon Master (1950)
32. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
33. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)
34. Pinky (1949) (uncredited)
35. "Fireside Theatre" (1949) TV Series (See 22. Bamboo Cross)
36. 3 Godfathers(1948)
37. Fort Apache (1948)... aka War Party
38. The Fugitive .(1947).. aka Fugitivo, El (Mexico)
39. My Darling Clementine (1946)... aka John Ford's My Darling Clementine (USA: complete title)
40. They Were Expendable(1945)
41. We Sail at Midnight (1943)(Documentary)
42. December 7th (1943) ... aka December 7th: The Movie (Documentary)
43. The Battle of Midway (1942) (Documentary)
44. Sex Hygiene (1942)(Documentary)(Unsuitable material for a profile)
45. Torpedo Squadron (1942)(Documentary)
46. How Green Was My Valley(1941)
47. Tobacco Road (1941)
48. The Long Voyage Home(1940)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
50. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
51. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
52. Stagecoach (1939)
53. Submarine Patrol (1938)
54. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
55. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) (uncredited)
56. The Hurricane (1937)
57. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
58. The Plough and the Stars 1936)
59. Mary of Scotlandhttp://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=5757(1936)
60. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
61. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) ... aka Steamboat Bill
62. The Informer (1935)
63. The Whole Town's Talking (1935)... aka Passportto Fame (UK)
64. Judge Priest (1934)
65. The World Moves On (1934)
66. The Lost Patrol (1934)
67. Doctor Bull (1933)
68. Pilgrimage (1933)
69. Flesh (1932) (uncredited)
70. Airmail (1932)
71. Arrowsmith (1931)
72. The Brat (1931)
73. Seas Beneath (1931)
74. Up the River (1930)
75. Born Reckless(1930)
76. Men Without Women (1930)
77. Salute (1929) (uncredited)
78. The Black Watch (1929)... aka King of the Khyber Rifles (UK)
79. Strong Boy(1929) (**considered lost)
80. Riley the Cop (1928)(uncredited)
81. Napoleon's Barber (1928) (**considered lost)
82. Hangman's House(1928) (uncredited)
83. Four Sons (1928)
84. Mother Machree (1928) (uncredited) (**considered lost)
85. Upstream (1927)... aka Footlight Glamour (UK)
86. The Blue Eagle (1926) (uncredited)
87. 3 Bad Men (1926)
88. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)... aka 1732
89. The Fighting Heart (1925)... aka Once to Every Man (UK) (**considered lost)
90. Thank You (1925) (**considered lost)
91. Kentucky Pride (1925)
92. Lightnin' (1925)
93. Hearts of Oak (1924) (**considered lost)
94. The Iron Horse(1924) (uncredited)
95. Hoodman Blind (1923) (**considered lost)
96. North of Hudson Bay (1923) (as Jack Ford)... aka North of the Yukon (UK) (**considered lost)
97. Cameo Kirby (1923) (**considered lost)
98. Three Jumps Ahead (1923) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
99. The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Love Image (UK) (**considered lost)
100. The Village Blacksmith (1922) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
101. Silver Wings (1922) (as Jack Ford) (prologue only) (**considered lost)
102. Little Miss Smiles (1922) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
103. Jackie (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
104. Sure Fire (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
105. Action (1921) (as Jack Ford)... aka Let's Go (**considered lost)
106. Desperate Trails (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
107. The Wallop (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
108. The Freeze-Out (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
109. The Big Punch (1921) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
110. Just Pals (1920) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
111. Hitchin' Posts (1920) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Land of Promise (UK) (**considered lost)
112. The Girl in Number 29 (1920) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Girl in the Mirror (**considered lost)
113. The Prince of Avenue A (1920) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
114. Marked Men (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka Trail of Shadows (**considered lost)
115. A Gun Fightin' Gentleman (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Gun-Fighting Gentleman (**considered lost)
116. Rider of the Law (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka Jim of the Rangers (**considered lost)
117. Ace of the Saddle (1919) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
118. The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
119. The Last Outlaw (1919) (**considered lost)
120. Riders of Vengeance (1919) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
121. The Gun Packer (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka Out Wyoming Way (**considered lost)
122. By Indian Post (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Love Letter (**considered lost)
123. Gun Law (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Posse's Prey (**considered lost)
124. Bare Fists (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Man Who Wouldn't Shoot (**considered lost)
125. A Fight for Love (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka Hell's Neck (**considered lost)
126. The Fighting Brothers (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka His Buddy (**considered lost)
127. Roped (1919) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
128. Rustlers (1919) (as Jack Ford)... aka Even Money (**considered lost)
129. Three Mounted Men (1918) (as Jack Ford)... aka Three Wounded Men (USA) (**considered lost)
130. The Craving (1918) (**considered lost)
131. A Woman's Fool (1918) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
132. Hell Bent (1918) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Three Bad Men (USA: bowdlerized title) (**considered lost)
133. The Scarlet Drop (1918) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
134. Thieves' Gold (1918) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
135. Wild Women (1918) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
136. The Phantom Riders (1918) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
137. Bucking Broadway (1917) (as Jack Ford)... aka Slumbering Fires (UK) (**considered lost)
138. A Marked Man (1917) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
139. The Secret Man (1917) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Round Up... Up Against It (**considered lost)
140. Straight Shooting (1917) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
141. The Soul Herder (1917) (as Jack Ford)... aka The Sky Pilot (**considered lost)
142. Cheyenne's Pal (1917) (as Jack Ford)... aka A Dumb Friend... aka Cactus My Pal (**considered lost)
143. The Scrapper (1917) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
144. Trail of Hate (1917) (**considered lost)
145. Red Saunders Plays Cupid (1917) (**considered lost)
146. The Tornado (1917) (as Jack Ford) (**considered lost)
Producer
1. 7 Women (1966) (producer) (uncredited)
2. Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (producer) (uncredited)... aka John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn(USA:title)
3. Donovan's Reef (1963)(producer)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) (producer) (uncredited)
5. Two Rode Together (1961) (producer)
6. The Last Hurrah (1958) (producer)
7. The Sun Shines Bright (1953) (producer)
8. The Quiet Man (1952)(producer)
9. Rio Grande (1950) (producer) aka John Ford and Merian C. Cooper's Rio Grande (USA: complete title)
10. Wagon Master (1950) (executive producer) (uncredited)
11. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (executive producer)
12. Mighty Joe Young (1949) (executive producer) ... aka Mr. Joseph Young of Africa
13. 3 Godfathers (1948) (producer)
14. Fort Apache (1948) (executive producer) ... aka War Party
15. The Fugitive (1947) (producer) ... aka Fugitivo, El (Mexico)
16. They Were Expendable (1945) (producer)
17. December 7th (1943) (producer) ... aka December 7th: The Movie (video title (restored version)
18. The Battle of Midway (1942) (producer)
19. The Long Voyage Home (1940) (producer)
20. Stagecoach (1939) (producer) (uncredited)
21. The Informer (1935) (producer)
22. The Whole Town's Talking (1935) (producer) ... aka Passport to Fame (UK)
23. The Lost Patrol (1934) (producer) (uncredited)
24. Flesh (1932) (producer)
25. Seas Beneath (1931) (producer)
26. Men Without Women (1930) (producer)
27. Salute (1929)(producer)
28. Riley the Cop (1928) (producer)
29. Hangman's House (1928) (producer)
30. Four Sons (1928) (producer)
31. Mother Machree (1928) (producer)
32. The Blue Eagle (1926) (producer)
33. 3 Bad Men (1926) (producer)
34. The Shamrock Handicap (1926) (producer)... aka 1732
35. The Iron Horse (1924) (producer)
36. The Wallop (1921) (producer)
Writer
1. Wagon Master (1950) (story) (uncredited)
2. The Battle of Midway (1942)
3. The Last Outlaw (1936) (story)
4. Up the River (1930) (uncredited)
5. Men Without Women (1930) (story Submarine)
6. Three Jumps Ahead (1923) (as Jack Ford)
7. The Big Punch (1921) (as Jack Ford)
8. Under Sentence (1920) (story) (as Jack Ford)
9. A Gun Fightin' Gentleman (1919) (story) (as Jack Ford) ... aka The Gun-Fighting Gentleman (USA: review title)
10. The Last Outlaw (1919) (story)
11. Riders of Vengeance (1919) (as Jack Ford)
12. The Gun Packer (1919) (story) (as Jack Ford) ... aka Out Wyoming Way
13. The Craving (1918)
14. Hell Bent (1918) (as Jack Ford) (story) (as Jack Ford) .. aka The Three Bad Men (USA: bowdlerized title)
15. The Scarlet Drop (1918) (story) (as Jack Ford)
16. Wild Women (1918) (story)
17. A Marked Man (1917) (story) (as Jack Ford)
18. The Secret Man (1917) (scenario) (as Jack Ford) .aka The Round Up . aka Up Against It
19. Cheyenne's Pal (1917) (story) (as Jack Ford)... aka A Dumb Friend... aka Cactus My Pal
20. The Scrapper (1917) (as Jack Ford)
21. Trail of Hate (1917) (scenario)
22. The Tornado (1917) (as Jack Ford)
23. The Doorway of Destruction (1915) (scenario) (as Jack Ford)
Actor
1. Traviata, La (1955) (TV) .... Gaston
2. The Scrapper (1917) (as Jack Ford) .... Buck, the scrapper
3. Trail of Hate (1917) (as Jack Ford) .... The lieutenant
4. The Tornado (1917) (as Jack Ford) .... Jack Dayton
5. The Purple Mask (1916) (unconfirmed)
6. The Bandit's Wager (1916) (as Jack Ford)
7. The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916) (as Jack Ford) .... Lund's Accomplice
8. Peg o' the Ring (1916) (as Jack Ford) .... Dr. Lund Sr.'s accomplice
9. Chicken-Hearted Jim (1916) (as Jack Ford) .... Roughneck Crewman ... aka Chicken-Hearted Bill
10. The Strong Arm Squad (1916) (as Jack Ford)
11. The Lumber Yard Gang (1916) (as Jack Ford) .... Cecil's brother
12. The Campbells Are Coming (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Undetermined role
13. The Broken Coin (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Sacchio's Accomplice
14. The Doorway of Destruction (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Edward Feeney
15. The Hidden City (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Lt. Johns' Brother
16. Three Bad Men and a Girl (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Jim
17. The Birth of a Nation (1915) (uncredited) .... Klansman on horse holding up hood with hand
... aka In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (USA: shorter version)
... aka The Birth of the Nation; Or The Clansman (second copyright title)
... aka The Clansman (USA: Los Angeles première title)
18. Smuggler's Island (1915) (as Jack Ford) .... Smuggler
19. A Study in Scarlet (1914/II) (as Jack Ford) .... John H. Watson, M.D.
20. The District Attorney's Brother (1914) (as Jack Ford)
21. The Mysterious Rose (1914) (as Jack Ford) .... Dopey
... aka My Lady Raffles #6: The Mysterious Rose (USA: series title)
22. Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914) (as Jack Ford)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
1. Hondo (1953) (second unit director) (uncredited)
2. Mighty Joe Young (1949) (second unit director) ... aka Mr. Joseph Young of Africa
3. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) (second unit director) (uncredited)
4. What Price Glory (1926) (second unit director) (uncredited)
5. The Craving (1918) (assistant director) (as Jack Ford)
6. The Broken Coin (1915) (assistant director)
7. The Doorway of Destruction (1915) (assistant director)
Miscellaneous Crew
1. Directed by John Ford (1971) (thanks)
2. Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) (advisor) (uncredited) ... aka Torero (USA)
3. Wagon Master (1950) (presenter)
4. The Fugitive (1947) (presenter) ... aka Fugitivo, El (Mexico)
5. Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914) (production assistant)
Cinematographer
1. The News Parade of the Year 1942 (1942) ("Battle of Midway" segment) (as Commander John Ford)
2. The Battle of Midway (1942)
Stunts
1. Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914) (stunts)
Art Department
1. Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914) (props)
Himself
1. John Wayne's 'The Alamo' (2001) .... Himself (photo)
2. Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976) .... Himself ... aka Chesty (USA: informal English title)
3. The American Film Institute Salute to John Ford (1973) (TV) .... Himself (Honoree)
4. The American West of John Ford (1971) (TV) .... Himself .. aka The Great American West of John Ford
5. Directed by John Ford (1971) (uncredited) .... Himself
6. Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (1965) .... Himself
7. "Wide Wide World" - The Western (1958) TV Episode .... Himself
8. The Screen Director (1951) (uncredited) .... Himself (staged 'archive' footage)
9. Screen Snapshots: Reno's Silver Spur Awards (1951) .... Himself
10. At the Front (1943) .... Himself
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