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John Ford Henry Fonda stands in the center wearing a cap and jacket, with Darryl Hickman and Shirley Mills looking up at him in a scene from The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Stagecoach John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in They Were Expendable The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Black-and-white promotional photo of Henry Fonda in period frontier clothing and tricorn hat, holding a musket, from the film Drums Along the Mohawk. John Wayne kneeling with a cowboy hat and Henry Fonda standing hatless behind him, surrounded by soldiers holding rifles in a desert landscape in a scene from Fort Apache (1948). Director John Ford, seated with a megaphone at left, directs actors George Peppard and Russ Tamblyn in an outdoor night scene for How the West Was Won, surrounded by crew and equipment. John Ford, left, and Henry Hathaway, right, both wearing hats and casual jackets, stand together outdoors on the set of How the West Was Won. Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Alan Mowbray, and Tim Holt in a saloon scene from the film My Darling Clementine, with men in cowboy hats gathered around a bar.
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The most useful books about John Ford and his films include Andrew Sinclair, John Ford (1979, reissued 1984); J.A. Place, The Western Films of John Ford (1973); Dan Ford, Pappy: The Life of John Ford (1979, reissued 1998); Scott Eyman and Paul Duncan, John Ford: The Searcher (2004); Peter Bogdanovich, John Ford, revised and enlarged (1978); Peter Cowie, John Ford and the American West (2004); Tag Gallagher, John Ford: The Man and His Films (1978); Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford: A Life (1999); Gerald Peary (ed.), John Ford: Interviews (2001); Lindsay Anderson, About John Ford (1981); Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein (eds.), John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era (2001); Barry Keith Grant (ed.), John Ford’s Stagecoach (2003); and Scott Eyman, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (1999).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - John Ford. Oct 09, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 27, 2026
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - This Famed Director Was Used to Saying ‘Action,’ Now He Would Experience Some For Himself at Midway. May 02, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 28, 2026
Add new Web site: BFI - Where to begin with John Ford. Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Dictionary of Irish Biography - Ford, John. Aug 23, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Great Lives - John Ford. Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Irish Film and Television Academy - John Ford. May 30, 2025
Add new Web site: Golden Globes - Forgotten Hollywood: John Ford. Mar 20, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - John Ford. Nov 12, 2024
Links added. May 21, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Biography of John Ford. Mar 24, 2023
Changed the year of his birth from "1895" to "1894". Oct 02, 2019
Add new Web site: Official Site of John Ford Ireland. Apr 18, 2019
Add new Web site: Central Intelligence Agency - A Look Back ... John Ford: War Movies. Apr 18, 2019
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - John Ford: The Man Who Invented America. Jun 13, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of John Ford. Jun 13, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie - John Ford. Jun 13, 2013
Media added. Nov 17, 2010
New bibliography added. Nov 05, 2010
New article added. Nov 05, 2010
Media added. Jan 04, 2007
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