* 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

In The Threepenny Opera, the moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( who was in turn based on the historical thief Jack Sheppard ).

Standing from left to right: James Messer, Jr., Edward Hill, John A. Rudd, George C. White, and Arvah B. Hopkins.

He defeated State Representative Luke Messer ( 28 %), Dr. John McGoff ( 19 %), State Representative Mike Murphy ( 9 %), Brose McVey ( 8 %), Andy Lyons ( 4 %), and Ann Adcock ( 3 %).

Radio / television pioneer Don Messer debuted on Saint John station CFBO in 1929, later gaining fame as the host of the popular CBC program Don Messer's Jubilee.

A month later on December 9, 1995 at the Table Mountain Casino in Fresno California Trevino anxiously re-matched Messer for ( IMTO ) International Muay Thai Organization Championship title belt sanctioned by B John productions.

Others who worked with Thompson on Orioles broadcasts included Frank Messer ( 1964 – 1967 ), Jim Karvellas ( 1968 – 1969 ), John Gordon ( 1970 – 1972 ), Brooks Robinson ( 1978 – 1987 ), and Tom Marr ( 1980 – 1982 ).

Messer had organized a small studio band of musicians by that point and in 1934, they began a regular radio show for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( forerunner to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or CBC ), broadcasting from CHSJ in Saint John under the name the New Brunswick Lumberjacks.

Messer left Saint John in 1939 and moved to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where he joined CFCY as music director.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

Columbus is host to the oldest theater in the State of Indiana, the Crump Theatre, which was built in 1889 by John Crump.

* 1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American politician ( d. 1947 )

* 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American jurist ( d. 1889 )

* John C. Brown ( 1827 – 1889 ), Confederate general, Tennessee governor, ( D )

* John Robert Brown ( Virginia politician ) ( 1842 – 1927 ), U. S. representative ( R-VA, 1887 – 1889 )

* John Walker ( Canadian politician ) ( 1832 – 1889 ), industrialist and member of the Canadian House of Commons

* 1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Cadbury ( b. 1801 )

* 1889 – John B.

* 1889 – John Bright, English statesman ( b. 1811 )

* 1811 – John Bright, British politician ( d. 1889 )

The Philadelphia City Council named Edison the recipient of the John Scott Medal in 1889.

Most of the estate of John Henry Challis was bequeathed to the University, which received a sum of £ 200, 000 in 1889.

** John B. Kelly, Sr., American Olympic rower, father of Grace Kelly ( b. 1889 )

* July 31 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer ( d. 1889 )

His father was John Herbert Porter, who together his grandfather, James ran James Porter & Son, the brewery in Burton upon Trent that bought Robinson & Sons brewery in Burton in 1889.

John Dillinger's older sister, Audrey, was born March 6, 1889.

* John T. Abbott ( 1850 – 1914 ), United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1889 – 1893

In 1889 the abbey was sold to Colonel John North, who presented it to Leeds City Council.

The pass had been discovered by John Frank Stevens, principal engineer of the Great Northern Railway, in December 1889, and offered an easier route across the Rockies than that taken by the Northern Pacific.

Standard Oil ( Indiana ) was formed in 1889 by John D. Rockefeller as part of the Standard Oil trust.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

An early example was the members of the Toronto Police Ambulance Service receiving a mandatory five days of training from St. John as early as 1889.