John Ford - Wikipedia. John Ford (February 1, 1. August 3. 1, 1. 97. American film director.

He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach (1. The Searchers (1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1. American novels such as the film The Grapes of Wrath (1. His four Academy Awards for Best Director (in 1.

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One of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture. In a career that spanned more than 5. Ford directed more than 1. Feeney's grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of a local (impoverished) gentry family, the Morrises of Spiddal (headed at present by Lord Killanin). John Augustine and Barbara Curran arrived in Boston and Portland respectively in May and June 1. They married in 1. American citizens five years later on September 1.

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He earned the nickname . A Portland pub is named Bull Feeney's in his honor. He later moved to California and in 1. Francis, adopting . In addition to credited roles, he appeared uncredited as a Klansman in D.

Griffith's 1. 91. The Birth of a Nation, as the man who lifts up one side of his hood so he can see clearly. He married Mary Mc.

Bride Smith on July 3, 1. His daughter Barbara was married to singer and actor Ken Curtis from 1. The marriage between Ford and Smith lasted for life despite various issues, one of which could have proved problematic from the start, this being that John Ford was Catholic. He followed in the footsteps of his multi- talented older brother Francis Ford, twelve years his senior, who had left home years earlier and had worked in vaudeville before becoming a movie actor. Francis played in hundreds of silent pictures for filmmakers such as Thomas Edison, Georges M.

Many famous stars appeared in at least two or more Ford films, including Harry Carey, Sr., (the star of 2. Ford silent films), Will Rogers, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart, Woody Strode, Richard Widmark, Victor Mc. Laglen, Vera Miles and Jeffrey Hunter. Many of his supporting actors appeared in multiple Ford films, often over a period of several decades, including Ben Johnson, Chill Wills, Andy Devine, Ward Bond, Grant Withers, Mae Marsh, Anna Lee, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Frank Baker, Dolores del R. Whitehead and Carleton Young. Core members of this extended 'troupe', including Ward Bond, John Carradine, Harry Carey, Jr., Mae Marsh, Frank Baker and Ben Johnson, were informally known as the John Ford Stock Company.

Likewise, Ford enjoyed extended working relationships with his production team, and many of his crew worked with him for decades. He made numerous films with the same major collaborators, including producer and business partner Merian C. Cooper, scriptwriters Nunnally Johnson, Dudley Nichols and Frank S.

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Clothier. Silent era. According to Ford's own story, he was given the job by Universal boss Carl Laemmle who supposedly said, . The Tornado was quickly followed by a string of two- reeler and three- reeler . The Soul Herder is also notable as the beginning of Ford's four- year, 2. Harry Carey. Carey's son Harry .

In making the film Ford and Carey ignored studio orders and turned in five reels instead of two, and it was only through the intervention of Carl Laemmle that the film escaped being cut for its first release, although it was subsequently edited down to two reels for re- release in the late 1. His 1. 92. 3 feature Cameo Kirby, starring screen idol John Gilbert—another of the few surviving Ford silents—marked his first directing credit under the name . It was a large, long and difficult production, filmed on location in the Sierra Nevada. The logistics were enormous—two entire towns were constructed, there were 5. Indians, 1. 30. 0 buffaloes, 2.

Horace Greeley, Wild Bill Hickok's derringer pistol and replicas of the . There was only a short synopsis written when filming began and Ford wrote and shot the film day by day. Production fell behind schedule, delayed by constant bad weather and the intense cold, and Fox executives repeatedly demanded results, but Ford would either tear up the telegrams or hold them up and have stunt gunman Edward . Ford's last silent Western was 3 Bad Men (1. Dakota land rush and filmed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and in the Mojave Desert.

It would be thirteen years before he made his next Western, Stagecoach, in 1. During the 1. 92. Ford also served as president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America.

Talkies: 1. 92. 8–1. Ford also directed Fox's first all- talking dramatic feature Napoleon's Barber (1. Just before the studio converted to talkies, Fox gave a contract to the German director F. Murnau, and his film Sunrise (1. Ford. Ford's last silent feature Hangman's House (1.

John Wayne. Napoleon's Barber was followed by Riley the Cop (1. Strong Boy (1. 92. Victor Mc. Laglen; the latter is now lost (although Tag Gallagher's book records that the only surviving copy of Strong Boy, a 3. Australia. The Black Watch (1. Khyber Pass starring Victor Mc.

Laglen and Myrna Loy is Ford's first complete surviving talking picture; it was remade in 1. Henry King as King of the Khyber Rifles. Ford's output was fairly constant from 1. World War II; he made five features in 1. Three films were released in 1.

Strong Boy, The Black Watch and Salute. His three films of 1. Men Without Women, Born Reckless and Up the River, which is notable as the debut film for both Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, who were both signed to Fox on Ford's recommendation (but subsequently dropped). Ford's films in 1. Seas Beneath, The Brat and Arrowsmith; the last- named, adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel and starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes, marked Ford's first Academy Awards recognition, with five nominations including Best Picture. Ford's legendary efficiency and his ability to craft films combining artfulness with strong commercial appeal won him increasing renown.

By 1. 94. 0 he was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost movie directors. As his career took off in the mid- Twenties his annual income significantly increased. He earned nearly $1.

President at that time (although this was still less than half the income of Carole Lombard, Hollywood's highest- paid star of the 1. With film production affected by the Depression, Ford made two films each in 1. Air Mail (made for Universal) with a young Ralph Bellamy and Flesh (for MGM) with Wallace Beery. Watch Snatched (2017) Online Free.

In 1. 93. 3, he returned to Fox for Pilgrimage and Doctor Bull, the first of his three films with Will Rogers. The World War I desert drama The Lost Patrol (1. Patrol by Philip Mac.

Donald, was a superior remake of the 1. Lost Patrol. It starred Victor Mc. Laglen as The Sergeant—the role played by his brother Cyril Mc. Laglen in the earlier version—with Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Alan Hale and Reginald Denny (who went on to found a company that made radio- controlled target aircraft during World War II).

It was one of Ford's first big hits of the sound era—it was rated by both the National Board of Review and The New York Times as one of the Top 1. Oscar nomination for its stirring Max Steiner score. Robinson and Jean Arthur, released in the UK as Passport to Fame, and it drew critical praise. Steamboat Round The Bend was his third and final film with Will Rogers; it is probable they would have continued working together, but their collaboration was cut short by Rogers' untimely death in a plane crash in May 1. Ford. Ford confirmed his position in the top rank of American directors with the Murnau- influenced Irish Republican Army drama The Informer (1. Victor Mc. Laglen.