John Ford

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John Ford

Born 1894-02-01 Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA 40 films

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. …

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Filmography

40 films
Five Came Back poster

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollyw…

Five Came Back

★ 7.9 2017

Shooting War poster

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by o…

Shooting War

★ 6.4 2000