John Ford

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American person actor film director film producer screenwriter

John Ford was an influential American film director renowned for his classic Westerns and richly visual storytelling, which helped define Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American person → actor → film director → film producer → screenwriter →
academyAwards	Academy Award for Best Director for How Green Was My Valley → Academy Award for Best Director for The Grapes of Wrath → Academy Award for Best Director for The Informer → Academy Award for Best Director for The Quiet Man →
alsoKnownAs	Jack Ford → John Ford →
awardCount_AcademyAwardForBestDirector	4 →
burialPlace	Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, United States →
causeOfDeath	stomach cancer →
conflictParticipatedIn	World War II →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1894-02-01 →
dateOfDeath	1973-08-31 →
directedDocumentary	December 7th → The Battle of Midway →
era	Classical Hollywood cinema →
ethnicOrigin	Irish-American →
founded	Field Photographic Branch of the Office of Strategic Services →
fullName	John Martin Feeney →
genre	Western film → drama film → war film →
influenced	Akira Kurosawa → Martin Scorsese → Orson Welles → Sergio Leone → Steven Spielberg →
militaryService	United States Navy →
notableWork	Fort Apache → How Green Was My Valley → My Darling Clementine → Rio Grande → She Wore a Yellow Ribbon → Stagecoach → The Grapes of Wrath → The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance → The Quiet Man → The Searchers →
occupation	actor → film director → film producer → screenwriter →
placeOfBirth	Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States →
placeOfDeath	Palm Desert, California, United States →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
sibling	Francis Ford →
spouse	Mary McBride Smith →
styleCharacteristic	emphasis on community and family themes → long takes and deep focus compositions → use of Monument Valley landscapes →
yearsActive	1910s–1960s →

Referenced by (24)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
How Green Was My Valley → My Darling Clementine → Stagecoach → The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance → The Searchers →	director
Akira Kurosawa → Martin Scorsese → Peter Bogdanovich →	influencedBy
AFI Life Achievement Award → New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director →	firstRecipient
John Ford →	alsoKnownAs
Gregg Toland →	collaboratedWith
Office of Strategic Services →	employed
Rose of Sharon Joad →	filmAdaptationDirector
The Grapes of Wrath →	filmDirector
Ford →	hasNotableBearer
Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City) →	hasNotableBurial
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director →	hasNotableMultipleWinner
Academy Award for Best Director →	hasNotableMultipleWinners
Hollywood Golden Age →	notableDirector
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director →	notableRecipient
My Darling Clementine →	notableWorkOf
Red Dust →	remakeDirector
Merian C. Cooper →	workedWith