John Ford

Person · Open Library

Died

1750

Works

173

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Film & TV

Directing · Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA

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…

Known for

• Filmmakers for the Prosecution — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2023
• John Ford: The Man Who Invented America — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
• Five Came Back — Self (archive footage)2017
• Spanish Western — Self (archive footage)2015
• John Ford & Monument Valley — Self (archive footage)2013
• The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth — Self (archive footage)2009
• 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)2009
• Monument Valley: John Ford Country — Self (voice) (archive footage)2006
• Serenity at Sea: John Ford and the Araner — Himself (archive footage)2006
• Shooting War — himself2000

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1919-02-13

Active to

1991-10-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,514

Total plays

11,103

There are multiple artists called John Ford: 1: John Ford was a Vancouver, Canada based garage rock band. They released two albums, a self-titled alt-country tinged debut in 2000 and Bullets For Dreamers in 2003. 2: John Ford is an English singer-songwriter who as well as releasing several solo records also performed as a member of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, The Strawbs, Hudson Ford, The G.B.'s, The Monks and High Society. 3: John Ford is an Italian three piece band playing a blend of math rock, post rock and psychedelic influences. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Ford">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2000 · cited 36,896x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,562x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,125x

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Quotes

• “What? [...] I understood the question but what does it mean? [...] I don't have a method. I tell them what to do. They do it. If I'm not satisfied, I correct their errors, I tell them to raise their voice, or to emphasize such-and-such sentence, and they do it again; that's all. Anyway, most of the time the actors are very good friends of mine and I know their personality and their range. There's no method involved there."”
• “Maureen O'Hara is one of the actresses I most dislike. Everybody thought I was her lover. Actually, I hated her and she hated me, but she was right for the parts.”
• “Do you know that Eugene O'Neill loved [(1940), based on a cycle of O'Neill's one-act sea plays]? Every month he had a print screened for him. It's a little thing that made me very proud of this picture.”
• “Never. It's awful. When I am asked why I hardly ever move the camera, I answer that the actors are better paid than the stagehands and grips, so it's normal that they should work and move about a little more. You should never use technical gimmicks to create emotion.”

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