John Ford

John Martin Feeney was born in 1894 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the tenth of eleven children of Irish immigrants; his father ran saloons, among other trades. In 1914 he joined his elder brother, an actor, in Hollywood and became a stuntman and extra. He directed more than a hundred and thirty films and won the Oscar for best director four times, a record. A reserve naval officer during the war, he headed a film unit and was wounded while filming the battle of Midway. He died in Palm Desert, California, in 1973.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaStagecoachJohn Ford · 1939Cinema
• CinemaThe SearchersJohn Ford · 1956Cinema