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John Ford

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JOHN FORD: Hollywood's First Great Author

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My Top 10 John Ford Westerns

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DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Interview)

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Icon of the film industry, John Ford, didn't suffer fools.

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Spielberg Meets John Ford

John Ford was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His four Academy Awards for Best Director remain a record. One of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture.