John Ford

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1894 age 0

   Born

2. 1915 age 21

   CreditThe Birth of a Nation

3. 1935 age 41

   CreditThe Informerdirector

   CreditThe Informerproducer

4. 1939 age 45

   CreditStagecoachdirector

   CreditYoung Mr. Lincolndirector

5. 1940 age 46

   CreditThe Grapes of Wrathdirector

6. 1941 age 47

   CreditHow Green Was My Valleydirector

7. 1946 age 52

   CreditMy Darling Clementinedirector

8. 1948 age 54

   CreditFort Apachedirector

   CreditFort Apacheproducer

9. 1949 age 55

   CreditShe Wore a Yellow Ribbondirector

   CreditShe Wore a Yellow Ribbonproducer

10. 1950 age 56

    CreditRio Grandedirector

11. 1952 age 58

    CreditThe Quiet Mandirector

    CreditThe Quiet Manproducer

    CreditThe Quiet Manscreenwriter

12. 1953 age 59

    CreditMogambodirector

13. 1956 age 62

    CreditThe Searchersdirector

14. 1962 age 68

    CreditHow the West Was Wondirector

    CreditThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valancedirector

15. 1973 age 79

    Died

• JPJack Pennick11 titles
• JWJohn Wayne8 titles
• WBWard Bond7 titles
• MMMae Marsh7 titles
• FFFrancis Ford6 titles
• HFHenry Fonda5 titles
• MCMerian C. Cooper5 titles
• HTHarry Tenbrook5 titles
• JMJack Murray5 titles
• VMVictor McLaglen5 titles

• Siblings

  • FFFrancis Ford

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• The people who say such things are crazy. I am a Northerner, I hate segregation, and I gave jobs to hundreds of Negroes at the same salary the whites were paid. I had production companies hire poverty-stricken Indians and pay them the highest Hollywood salaries for extras. Me, a racist? My best friends are black: , and a caretaker who has worked for me for thirty years. I even made , about a character who was not just a nice black guy but someone nobler than anybody else in the picture. They wouldn't let me make that picture because they said that a movie about a 'nigger' wouldn't make any money and couldn't be exhibited in the South. I got angry and told them they could at least have the decency to say 'Negro' or 'colored man,' because most of those 'niggers' were worth better than they. When I landed at there were scores of black bodies lying in the sand. Then I realized that it was impossible not to consider them full-fledged American citizens.

  John Ford, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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."

  John Ford, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  John Ford, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  John Ford, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  John Ford, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Cause of death

stomach cancer

Height

183 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1913–1966

Education

Portland High School