Biography: life and films
John Ford was an Irish-American film director and screenwriter whose birth name was John Martin Feeney. He was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA on 1st February 1894 and died in Palm Desert, CA, USA on 31st August 1973, aged 79.His best films as a film director include The Whole Town's Talking (1935), Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and My Darling Clementine (1946), and whose best work as a screenwriter include A Marked Man (1917), Wild Women (1918), Three Jumps Ahead (1923) and Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's Addio fratello crudele (1971).
John Ford directed 124 films (including 6 shorts), scripted 19 films and appeared in 14 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Francis Ford (5 films).
His most frequent genres include: drama (62 films), Western (50), romance (16), comedy-drama (15), War (14), comedy (10), Biography (5), history (4), comedy-romance (4), Documentary (4) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for John Ford over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer; c = cinematographer
Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914) [a]
The Broken Coin (1915) [a]
The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916) [a]
The Purple Mask (1916) [a]
A Marked Man (1917) [d,w]
Bucking Broadway (1917) [d]
Straight Shooting (1917) [d]
The Secret Man (1917) [d,w]
A Woman's Fool (1918) [d]
Hell Bent (1918) [d,w]
The Craving (1918) [d,w]
The Phantom Riders (1918) [d]
The Scarlet Drop (1918) [d,w]
Thieves' Gold (1918) [d]
Three Mounted Men (1918) [d]
Wild Women (1918) [d,w]
A Fight for Love (1919) [d]
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman (1919) [d,w]
Ace of the Saddle (1919) [d]
Bare Fists (1919) [d]
Marked Men (1919) [d]
Rider of the Law (1919) [d]
Riders of Vengeance (1919) [d,w]
Roped (1919) [d]
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) [d]
Hitchin' Posts (1920) [d]
Just Pals (1920) [d]
The Girl in Number 29 (1920) [d]
The Prince of Avenue A (1920) [d]
Action (1921) [d]
Desperate Trails (1921) [d]
Jackie (1921) [d]
Sure Fire (1921) [d]
The Big Punch (1921) [d,w]
The Freeze-Out (1921) [d]
The Wallop (1921) [d]
Little Miss Smiles (1922) [d]
Silver Wings (1922) [d]
The Village Blacksmith (1922) [d]
Cameo Kirby (1923) [d]
Hoodman Blind (1923) [d]
North of Hudson Bay (1923) [d]
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923) [d]
Three Jumps Ahead (1923) [d,w]
Hearts of Oak (1924) [d]
The Iron Horse (1924) [d]
Kentucky Pride (1925) [d]
Lightnin' (1925) [d]
Thank You (1925) [d]
The Fighting Heart (1925) [d]
3 Bad Men (1926) [d]
The Blue Eagle (1926) [d]
The Shamrock Handicap (1926) [d]
Upstream (1927) [d]
Four Sons (1928) [d]
Hangman's House (1928) [d]
Mother Machree (1928) [d]
Riley the Cop (1928) [d]
Big Time (1929) [a]
Salute (1929) [d]
Strong Boy (1929) [d]
Born Reckless (1930) [d]
Men Without Women (1930) [d,w]
Up the River (1930) [d,w]
Arrowsmith (1931) [d]
The Brat (1931) [d]
Air Mail (1932) [d]
Flesh (1932) [d]
Doctor Bull (1933) [d]
Pilgrimage (1933) [d]
Judge Priest (1934) [d]
The Lost Patrol (1934) [d]
The World Moves On (1934) [d]
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) [d]
The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [d]
His Lordship (1936) [a]
The Last Outlaw (1936) [w]
The Plough and the Stars (1936) [d]
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) [d]
The Hurricane (1937) [d]
Wee Willie Winkie (1937) [d]
Four Men and a Prayer (1938) [d]
Submarine Patrol (1938) [d]
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) [d]
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) [d]
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [d]
The Long Voyage Home (1940) [d]
How Green Was My Valley (1941) [d]
Tobacco Road (1941) [d]
They Were Expendable (1945) [d]
My Darling Clementine (1946) [d]
3 Godfathers (1948) [d]
Fort Apache (1948) [d]
Everybody Does It (1949) [a]
Pinky (1949) [d]
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) [d]
Wagon Master (1950) [d,w]
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) [d]
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) [a]
This Is Korea! (1951) [d]
The Quiet Man (1952) [d,w]
What Price Glory (1952) [d]
Mogambo (1953) [d]
The Sun Shines Bright (1953) [d]
Mister Roberts (1955) [d]
The Long Gray Line (1955) [d]
The Rising of the Moon (1957) [d]
The Wings of Eagles (1957) [d]
The Last Hurrah (1958) [d]
The Horse Soldiers (1959) [d]
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) [d]
Two Rode Together (1961) [d]
How the West Was Won (1962) [d]
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) [d]
Donovan's Reef (1963) [d]
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) [d]
Young Cassidy (1965) [d]
7 Women (1966) [d]
Addio fratello crudele (1971) [w]
Directed by John Ford (1971) [a]
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976) [a,d]
The Oracle (1985) [a]
Broken Harvest (1994) [a]
Golden Times (2009) [c]
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