* 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

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1947 – John Weider, English musician ( Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, and Stud )

John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas.

* 1910 – John H. Hammond, American musician ( d. 1987 )

* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

* 1937 – John Hartford, American musician ( d. 2001 )

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

* 1987 – John Spence, American musician ( No Doubt ) ( b. 1969 )

* 1952 – John Lurie, American actor, musician, painter, director and producer

In 1599 John Farmer dedicated a second book to Oxford, The First Set of English Madrigals, alluding in the dedication to Oxford's own proficiency as a musician.

* 1978 – John Nolan, American musician ( Straylight Run and Taking Back Sunday )

* 1945 – John Helliwell, English musician ( Supertramp )

* 1956 – Mark St. John, American musician ( Kiss ) ( d. 2007 )

* 1962 – John Balance, English musician ( Coil, Psychic TV ) ( d. 2004 )

* John Young ( musician ) ( born 1956 ), British keyboardist

* 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Mogul Thrash, Family, Roxy Music, UK, and Asia )

* 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician ( They Might Be Giants )

* 1944 – John " Charlie " Whitney, English musician ( Family, Axis Point, Streetwalkers )

John Uhler " Jack " Lemmon III ( February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001 ) was an American actor and musician.

* 1948 – John Ford, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera )

* 1949 – John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician

* 1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American musician ( d. 1977 )

* 1952 – Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Free, Sharks, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers )

* 1955 – John Waite, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Babys and Bad English )