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12 unusual facts about John Ford


David Milhous

David cites John Ford, Philip Glass and Henri Cartier-Bresson as his greatest creative influences and is a lifetime member of The American Film Institute and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Eva Simatou

She has played several lead female parts in many plays including: “Titus Andronicus” by William Shakespeare (Tamora), “Broken Heart” by John Ford (Penthea), “Attempts on her Life” by Martin Crimp (Anne), the “Gravedigger’s Complaint” by Emmanuel Roides (Daughter), at renown Athenian theatres such as: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens Art Theatre (Theatro Technis Karolos Koun), City of Athens Festival, Odos Kefallinias Theatre etc.

Frank Hotaling

His association with famed director John Ford led to an Oscar nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Jr. and Charles S. Thompson, for Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Color, for 1952's The Quiet Man.

Gideon of Scotland Yard

In Gideon's Day (1958, directed by John Ford, USA title: Gideon Of Scotland Yard), Gideon is played by Jack Hawkins.

Grierson's Raid

The movie The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and the Harold Sinclair novel of the same name on which it is based, are fictional variations of Grierson's Raid.

James Warner Bellah

Some of his short stories were turned into movies by John Ford, including Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande.

Jon and Al Kaplan

In 2007, they scored (for clarinet, violin and piano) the John Ford silent film entitled Just Pals, which was included in the Ford at Fox DVD Box Set.

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-41

The exploits of PT-41 are portrayed in the 1945 film They Were Expendable directed by John Ford with

Parviz Nouri

Nouri was promoted to the editor of Setareh Cinema in 1959 and began an era in the magazine's history promoting and introducing Iranian film enthusiasts to great directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Howard Hawks and John Ford.

Sue Lyon

In 1965, she played a mission worker in China in director John Ford's last feature film, 7 Women.

Walter D. Edmonds

One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), was successfully adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.

Willis Bouchey

Throughout his career, Bouchey worked in twelve different productions for director John Ford and was one of the more frequently-used members of Ford's stock company.


Dunce cap

John Ford's 1624 play The Sun's Darling is the first recorded mention of the related term "dunce table," a table provided for duller or poorer students; "dunce cap" appears first in the 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.

E. H. Crump

One of Crump's lieutenants in the black community was funeral director N. J. Ford, whose family (in the persons of sons Harold Sr. and John Ford, daughter Ophelia and grandson Harold, Jr.) is still influential in Memphis politics today.

Eagle Pennell

His last name comes from 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell, a character from John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).

Eire Society of Boston

Recipients in entertainment have included filmmakers John Ford and John Huston, Irish actresses Siobhan McKenna, Anna Manahan and Maureen O'Hara, Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and musicians The Chieftains and Tommy Makem.

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Despite that it was exposure to the work of Akira Kurosawa, John Ford and Nicholas Ray which proved crucial in his decision to become a filmmaker.

Herman Whitaker

His novel Over the Border (1916) was adapted for the John Ford western 3 Bad Men (1926).

June Lang

She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).

Mike Fleming

He also strongly criticized the powerful political Ford family, particularly former state senator John Ford and former U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Jr..

Ophelia Ford

She is the younger sister of former state senator John Ford and former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr., and the aunt of former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. She represents Senate District 29, located in northwestern Shelby County.

Sayre, Oklahoma

In 1940 film director John Ford would use Sayre’s Beckham County Courthouse in the film The Grapes of Wrath, based on the famous book by writer John Steinbeck.

The Great Meadow

The story of The Great Meadow written by Elizabeth Madox Roberts is similar in theme to that of Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds and made into a 1939 film titled Drums Along the Mohawk by John Ford.

The Spanish Gypsy

The play was likely a collaboration between several dramatists, including Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford.

The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne and featuring Donna Reed.

Tim Holt

Following the war, Holt returned to films, appearing as Virgil Earp to Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp in the John Ford western My Darling Clementine (1946).

Tragicomedy

And many of their contemporary writers, ranging from John Ford to Lodowick Carlell to Sir Aston Cockayne, made attempts in the genre.

Yellowstone Kelly

The film was originally supposed to be directed by John Ford with John Wayne in the Clint Walker role but Ford and Wayne opted to make The Horse Soldiers instead.