* John M. Ford

* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )

The song plays during the opening credits for the highly acclaimed John Ford movie " My Darling Clementine.

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

Like his contemporary, director John Ford, Capra defined and aggrandized the tropes of mythic America where individual courage invariably triumphs over collective evil.

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

He briefly held the record for winning the most Best Director Oscars when he won for the third time in 1938, until this record was matched by John Ford in 1941, and then later surpassed by Ford in 1952.

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

To form the development team, Ford also hired the ex-Aston Martin team manager John Wyer.

In order to bring the car more " in house " and lessening partnership with English firms, Ford Advanced Vehicles was sold to John Wyer and the new car was designed by Ford's studios and produced by Ford's subsidiary Kar Kraft under Ed Hull.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".

* Pippin, Robert B. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy ( Yale University Press, 2010 ) 208 pp.

John Ford ( 1894 – 1973 ) was an American film director who won four Academy Awards.

John Ford or Johnny Ford may also refer to:

* John of Ford ( ca. 1140 – 1214 ), English religious leader who, from 1191 until his death, served as abbot of Dorset Cistercian monastery Forde Abbey ; ally of King John

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory

* John Ford ( bishop ) ( born 1952 ), English curate, chaplain and diocesan missioner who rose through Church of England hierarchy to become Bishop of Plymouth in 2006

* John Ford ( before 1395 – after 1416 ), English legislator who briefly represented Colchester ( UK Parliament constituency ) in 1416

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( b. 1911 )

* John Gay, English dramatist and poet

** St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author ( b. 1883 )

** John Day, English dramatist ( d. 1640 )

* probable – John Ford, dramatist ( b. 1586 )

* June 25 – John Marston, English dramatist ( b. 1576 )

* December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic ( b. 1658 )

* March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist ( b. 1664 )

* September 22 – John Home, Scottish dramatist ( d. 1808 )

* April 17 – John Ford, English dramatist and poet ( d. 1640 )

** John Heywood, English dramatist ( b. 1497 )

* September 16 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic ( d. 1734 )

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

Warbeck's story subsequently attracted writers — most notably by the dramatist John Ford, who dramatized the story in his play Perkin Warbeck, first performed in the 1630s.

Saunders Lewis ( born John Saunders Lewis ) ( 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985 ) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

* W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and author, who with Arthur Sullivan wrote the Savoy Operas, ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Stanmore.

Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 ( baptised ) – 26 March 1726 ) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn.

* John Home, poet and dramatist