Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.

He has appeared as Count Rugen in The Princess Bride, Charley Ford in The Long Riders, Lord Cromer in Mrs Henderson Presents and Dr. Stone in A Few Good Men.

He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

He appeared on May 2, 1957, on NBC's comedy variety series, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Former U. S. presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton appeared in another videotaped segment and recited some of the speeches by Abraham Lincoln.

On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a " Women for Ford " event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.

It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932, and died in 1957.

Starting in the late 1990s, Ford appeared in several critically derided and commercially disappointing movies, including Six Days Seven Nights ( 1998 ), Random Hearts ( 1999 ), K-19: The Widowmaker ( 2002 ), Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 ), Firewall ( 2006 ), and Extraordinary Measures ( 2010 ).

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

In 1976, Thurmond appeared in a campaign commercial for incumbent U. S. President Gerald Ford in his race against Thurmond's fellow Southerner, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

On 4 October 1956, Garson appeared with Reginald Gardiner as the first two guest stars in the series premiere of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

On November 21, 1957, she appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a frequent entry in the " Top 20 " and featuring a musical group called " The Top Twenty.

The same year she appeared opposite Harrison Ford in a supporting role as Katharine Parker in the film Working Girl.

When Ford had taken power, it appeared that one key to his success would be building upon the foreign policy successes of President Nixon, his predecessor.

The weekly show regularly featured guest artists, and the biggest stars of the day appeared ( including Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Tennessee Ernie Ford ).

Other sponsors, whose products appeared during the original openings, were Procter & Gamble for Cheer and Lilt Home Permanent ( 1954 – 57 ), General Foods for Sanka ( 1955 – 57 ), Ford Motor Company ( 1957 – 58 ), and Westinghouse company ( 1958 – 60 ).

The show also appeared on television a few years later with the same format, but excluding the trio and retitled The Les Paul & Mary Ford Show ( also known as Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home ) with " Vaya Con Dios " as a theme song.

While the previously introduced Ford Maverick offered either straight-6 or V8 engine and twin bench seats, the Pinto offered an inline-4 engine, and bucket seats – more in keeping with small imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle, available since 1949, the Toyota Corolla, introduced to North America March 1968, and the newly introduced Datsun 1200 which appeared in 1970.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

Directed by John Ford, How Green Was My Valley is one of the films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

While Keanu Reeves and Harrison Ford both had major roles in action science fiction films ( The Matrix and Blade Runner, respectively ), Ford branched out into a number of other action genres, such as action-adventure films.

, the United States domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US $ 3. 5 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $ 6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U. S. domestic box-office star.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

The type of fedora worn by Ford in the Indiana Jones films

Ford has been in numerous other films, including Heroes ( 1977 ), Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ), and Hanover Street ( 1979 ).

Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness ( 1985 ), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, about an Amish boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer and has to be hidden away in his Amish community to protect him.

He was especially popular with director John Ford, who frequently included McLaglen in his films.

He was captivated by movies from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low budget horror films, such as The Thing from Another World and high budget science fiction like Forbidden Planet and began filming horror shorts on 8 mm film even before entering high school.

The film was something of a departure for Wayne and Ford, who were both known mostly for Westerns and other action-oriented films.

" John Ford — who worked with Wayne on many films ( such as The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance )— was so impressed with Wayne's performance that he is reported to have said, " I didn ’ t know the big son of a bitch could act!

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

In addition to The Bengali Night, films based on, or referring to, his works, include: Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du Sacré ( 1987 ), part of the television series Architecture et Géographie sacrée, by Paul Barbă Neagră ; Domnişoara Christina ( 1996 ), by Viorel Sergovici ; Eu Adam ( 1996 ), by Dan Piţa ; Youth Without Youth ( 2007 ), by Francis Ford Coppola.

Christie starred in two other films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O ' Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and ( uncredited ) John Ford.

His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie ( née Ford ), is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr .' s films.

Only two directors have received consecutive Best Director awards: John Ford for 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1941's How Green Was My Valley, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz for 1949's A Letter to Three Wives and 1950's All About Eve.

Massey again portrayed Lincoln in the 1956 production of The Day Lincoln Was Shot on Ford Star Jubilee, and ( a wordless appearance this time ) in 1962's How the West Was Won.

An October 25, 2006, USA Today editorial, " How Ford starved its Taurus ", noted that the Japanese stuck with their winners and make them better ( such as the Toyota Corolla, which has been in continuous production since the 1960s ), while Detroit automakers retire cars and even entire division nameplates in search of " the next big thing ".

That studio cast her in low-budget films until she was rescued by director John Ford, who cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, which won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture.

In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mrs Ford greets Robin, Falstaff's page, with the words " How now, my eyas musket ", eyas musket meaning a lively young man ( an eyas is a hawk nestling ).

Jeff Beck paid tribute to Les Paul and Mary Ford at the 2010 Grammy Awards Ceremony by playing a note-for-note version of How High the Moon with Imelda May singing, a year after Les Paul died.

Ford also admonished Wayne for failing to serve in World War II while Stewart was regarded as a war hero: " How rich did you get while Jimmy was risking his life?

Ford and Paul put out 28 hits for Capitol Records between 1950 and 1957, including " Tiger Rag ", " Vaya con Dios " ( 11 weeks at # 1 ), " How High the Moon " ( nine weeks at # 1 ), " Bye Bye Blues " and " The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise ".

They took a cramped apartment in Paul ’ s former New York neighborhood, where they conceived and recorded their arrangement of " How High The Moon ", a hard-swinging multi-layered arrangement containing twelve overdubs using the guitar and Ford ’ s voice.

When she and her first husband, director Robert Stevenson, moved to Hollywood she became associated with John Ford, appearing in several of his films, notably How Green Was My Valley, Two Rode Together and Fort Apache.

Curtis teamed with Ford and John Wayne in Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, The Searchers, The Horse Soldiers, The Alamo and How The West Was Won.

# " How High The Moon " by Les Paul & Mary Ford

* " Funding Hate — How the Ford Foundation Funds Hate Groups ," In 4 parts.

* Harris, Ford W. " How Many Parts To Make At Once " Factory, The Magazine of Management, 10 ( 2 ), 135-136, 152 ( 1913 ).

How to Deal is a 2003 film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Mandy Moore, Allison Janney and Trent Ford.

" How long are we going to abdicate law and order " House GOP leader Gerald Ford demanded in 1966, " in favor of a soft social theory that the man who heaves a brick through your window or tosses a firebomb into your car is simply the misunderstood and underprivileged product of a broken home?

He made a joke at Nixon's expense in the first season after Eric streaked through the crowd while wearing a Nixon Mask and, in a pivotal moment, expressed disdain for Gerald Ford ( when allowed to ask President Ford a question he said " Hey ' Jerry ', here's my question: ' How the hell could you pardon Nixon?

She also became a favorite of director John Ford, appearing in The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), 3 Godfathers ( 1948 ), The Robe ( 1953 ), and The Searchers ( 1956 ).

In 1997, Ford Motor Company approved the publication of a textbook, Unified Structured Inventive Thinking – How to Invent by Dr. Ed.