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Also Known As John Martin Feeny • Sean Aloysius O’Feeney • Sean Aloysius O’Fearna
Born February 1, 1894 • Maine
Died August 31, 1973 (aged 79) • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1953) • Academy Award (1942) • Academy Award (1941) • Academy Award (1936)
Notable Works “Drums Along the Mohawk” • “Fort Apache” • “How Green Was My Valley” • “How the West Was Won” • “Judge Priest” • “Mister Roberts” • “Mogambo” • “My Darling Clementine” • “Rio Grande” • “Stagecoach” • “Steamboat ’Round the Bend” • “The Grapes of Wrath” • “The Informer” • “The Long Voyage Home” • “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” • “The Quiet Man” • “The Searchers” • “They Were Expendable” • “Two Rode Together”

Photos

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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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
John Wayne
John Wayne
American actor
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Joel Coen
American filmmaker
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.
Woody Allen
American director, writer, and actor
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director, actor, and writer
William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
George Cukor
George Cukor
American film director
Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
American director
Fred Zinnemann stands between Marlon Brando, left, in a suit, and Montgomery Clift, right, in a tank top, on the set of From Here to Eternity, with lockers in the background.
Fred Zinnemann
American director
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage
American film director and producer
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
American director and producer

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