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John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur. In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 140 films between 1917 and 1965 (although most of his silent films are now lost), and received six Academy Awards including a ...
John Ford. Director: The Quiet Man. John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, counting (he always did) the two that he won for his WWII documentary...
John Ford with portrait and Academy Award, circa 1946. John Ford (1894–1973) was an American film director whose career spanned from 1913 to 1971. During this time he directed more than 140 films; however, nearly all of his silent films are lost. Born in Maine, Ford entered the filmmaking industry shortly after graduating from high school with the help of his older brother, Francis Ford, who had established himself as a leading man and director for Universal Studios.
John Ford: His 35 Best films. by cafg-0 • Created 12 years ago • Modified 3 weeks ago. One of the greatest directors of American cinema. A master directing westerns and dramas. List activity. 4.4K views • 31 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 35 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Grapes of Wrath. 1940 2h 9m Approved. 8.1 (101K) Rate. 96 Metascore. An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the ...
Jun 26, 2024 · John Ford (born February 1, 1894, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, U.S.—died August 31, 1973, Palm Desert, California) was an iconic American film director, best known today for his westerns, though none of the films that won him the Academy Award for best direction ...
Jan 24, 2020 · O n 24 January 1940, John Ford’s film adaption of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, set during America’s great depression, was released to universal acclaim.
John Ford is, arguably, The Great American Director. When Orson Welles, who repeatedly screened Ford's Stagecoach (1939) as a crash course in filmmaking before helming his first film, Citizen Kane (1941), was asked who his three favorite directors were, he answered, "John Ford, John Ford and John Ford."Along with D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, the first-generation pioneers who created the narrative film in America, if not the world, Ford -- who came of age when movie production began ...
Jan 30, 2015 · Lieutenant Commander John Ford USNR won his fourth Oscar for the documentary short The Battle of Midway (1942), which was narrated by Henry Fonda. However, fists flew when the pair returned to the Pacific base for this wartime saga. Having played the title character on Broadway some 1,100 times, Fonda felt he knew him better than Ford, who sought solace in booze after having his authority and artistic integrity challenged. He was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy after suffering a gallbladder attack ...
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, director John Ford on set, 1945 FLESH, Wallace Beery, director John Ford, Karen Morley rehearsing dialogue on set, 1932 THE LOST PATROL, John Ford, Victor McLaglen, Douglas ...
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 ...
