“putting out derogatory information about a director, whether he is a Communist, beats his mother-in-law, or beats dogs.”
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John Ford
John Martin Feeney, better known 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 130 films between 1917 and 1970, and received a record four Academy Awards…
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entertainment · American film director (1894–1973) · film director · film producer · naval officer · director · producer · writer · military officer · military personnel · film screenwriter · screenwriter · also John Ford, Jack Ford, John Martin Feeney, Jack Feeney, Sean Aloysius, Sean Aloysius O'Feeney
Born 1 February 1894 · Died 31 August 1973 · Q51114
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2026· 2 entries
“protect ourselves against producers.”
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘It made him an A-lister’: John Ford’s breakthrough film The Iron Horse at 100
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2022· 1 entry
FACTLY rated the claim “Richest Man in America, John Ford, converted to Islam” FALSE.
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2021· 2 entries
Alt News rated the claim “John Ford who owns 190 channels in the USA and is the richest man coverts to Islam” Partially True.
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Alt News rated the claim “John Ford who owns 190 channels in the USA and is the richest man coverts to Islam” Half True.
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2019· 1 entry
Jean-Christophe Klotz released the documentary film John Ford, l'homme qui inventa l'Amérique ("the man who invented America"), about his influence in the legend of the American West in films like Stagecoach (1939), The
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2016· 1 entry
With the discovery of the court transcript, which was released as part of the Mankiewicz archives
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2010· 1 entry
Featuring a newly commissioned score by Michael Mortilla
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2009· 1 entry
A trove of 75 Hollywood silent films was rediscovered in the New Zealand Film Archive, among which was the only surviving print of Ford's 1927 silent comedy Upstream
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2008· 2 entries
Ford was cited by his superiors for bravery, taking a position to film one mission that was "an obvious and clear target"
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And also placed 12th on the institute's 2007 list of the Top 100 greatest movies of all time
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2007· 1 entry
Twentieth Century Fox released Ford at Fox, a DVD boxed set of 24 of Ford's films
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Bullets for Dreamers”.
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2002· 1 entry
The only known surviving print was discovered in the archives of the French National Center for Cinematography and it has since been restored and digitized
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1998· 1 entry
A statue of Ford was unveiled in Portland, Maine, across the street from where his father once owned a pub
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1973· 5 entries
At Palm Desert and his funeral was held on September 5 at Hollywood's Church of the Blessed Sacrament
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Died 1973-08-31.
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Richard Nixon (1973).
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Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1973).
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Was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Nixon, whose campaign he had publicly supported
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Owen Wister Award (1972).
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1971· 2 entries
Called The American West of John Ford, featuring clips from Ford's career interspersed with interviews conducted by Wayne, Stewart, and Fonda, who also took turns narrating the hour-long documentary
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Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
But not released until 1976, three years after Ford's death
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1968· 1 entry
And became a supporter of the Vietnam War
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1966· 2 entries
Supported Ronald Reagan in his governor's race and again for his reelection in 1970
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“a million other Americans, I am naturally bewildered and hurt by the outcome of the Republican Convention in Chicago.”
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1965· 1 entry
Ford began work on Young Cassidy (MGM), a biographical drama based upon the life of Irish playwright Seán O'Casey, but he fell ill early in the production and was replaced by Jack Cardiff
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1962· 1 entry
Ford directed his fourth and last TV production, Flashing Spikes, a baseball story made for the Alcoa Premiere series and starring James Stewart, Jack Warden, Patrick Wayne and Tige Andrews, with Harry Carey Jr
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1961· 3 entries
Which is anthologized in Massoud Farasati's 2014 collection of writings by and about Ford in Persian
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“Our job was to photograph both for the records and for our intelligence assessment, the work of guerrillas, saboteurs, Resistance outfits.”
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Ford told a magazine, "Our job was to photograph both for the records and for our intelligence assessment, the work of guerrillas, saboteurs, Resistance outfits
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1955· 4 entries
And 1957, Ford was awarded the George Eastman Award given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film
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Ford was hired by Warner Bros to direct the Naval comedy Mister Roberts, starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, William Powell, and James Cagney, but there was conflict between Ford and Fonda, who had been playing the lead r
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Ford made the lesser-known West Point drama The Long Gray Line for Columbia Pictures, the first of two Ford films to feature Tyrone Power, who had originally been slated to star as the adult Huw in How Green Was My Valle
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Directing two half-hour dramas for network TV
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1954· 1 entry
By Henry King as King of the Khyber Rifles
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Quiet Man (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Ford hoped for a Robert Taft/Douglas MacArthur Republican presidential ticket
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1950· 1 entry
Producer Herbert Yates and Republic executive Rudy Ralston visited the location and when Yates pointed out the time (it was 10am) and asked when Ford intended to start shooting, Ford barked, "Just as soon as you get the
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1949· 1 entry
Ford briefly returned to Fox to direct Pinky
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1948· 1 entry
By the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, and it was a solid financial success, grossing $2
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1945· 1 entry
Ford executed affidavits testifying to the integrity of films taken to document conditions at Nazi concentration camps
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for How Green Was My Valley (1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Grapes of Wrath (1941).
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1937· 1 entry
With an independent cooperative called Renowned Artists Company)
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Informer (1936).
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1934· 1 entry
And on which he lavished hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs and improvements over the years; it became his chief retreat between films and a meeting place for his circle of close friends, including John Wayne an
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1933· 1 entry
Returned to Fox for Pilgrimage and Doctor Bull, the first of his three films with Will Rogers
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1932· 1 entry
And 1933—Air Mail (made for Universal) with a young Ralph Bellamy and Flesh (for MGM) with Wallace Beery
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1931· 1 entry
Were 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 includin
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1929· 1 entry
And made over $100,000 per annum every year from 1934 to 1941, earning a staggering $220,068 in 1938—more than double the salary of the U
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1928· 1 entry
And then made either two or three films every year from 1929 to 1942, inclusive
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1920· 1 entry
When he moved to Fox, he was paid $300–600 per week
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1919· 1 entry
As Marked Men, also with Carey and thought lost
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1917· 1 entry
Eight in 1918 and fifteen in 1919—and he directed a total of 62 shorts and features between 1917 and 1928, although he was not given a screen credit in most of his earliest films
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1914· 1 entry
Began working in film production as well as acting for his older brother Francis, adopting "Jack Ford" as a professional name
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1894· 2 entries
(though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone)
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Born 1894-02-01.
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1875· 1 entry
And became American citizens five years later on September 11, 1880
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1868· 1 entry
Texas but shot on location in Monument Valley Utah-Arizona, it tells of the embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards who spends years tracking down his niece, kidnapped by Comanches as a young girl
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