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John Ford
Directing
01 Feb 1894
† 31 Aug 1973
Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA
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 ye...
Also Known As
Jack Ford, Jack Francis
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John Ford's Movies
60%
The Birth of a Nation
08 Mar 1915
70%
The Horse Soldiers
11 Jun 1959
79%
Five Came Back
31 Mar 2017
69%
Directed by John Ford
06 Sept 1971
62%
Spanish Western
04 May 2015
62%
The American West of John Ford
05 Dec 1971
57%
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
01 Jan 1943
59%
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
03 Feb 2019
75%
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
02 Jul 2009
51%
The Bandit's Wager
05 Nov 1916
59%
Shooting War
07 Dec 2000
70%
Show-Business at War
21 May 1943
55%
The Tornado
03 Mar 1917
55%
The Trail of Hate
28 Apr 1917
45%
The Scrapper
09 Jun 1917
80%
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
06 Jun 1992
65%
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
27 Jan 2023
65%
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend
04 Apr 1976
60%
The Broken Coin
21 Jun 1915
60%
Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
14 Apr 1914
