Ford,John

Ford,John
I. Ford1, John. 1586-1639.
English playwright whose works include 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633) and collaborative efforts, notably with Thomas Dekker and John Webster.
  II. Ford2, John. Originally Sean Aloysius O'Feeney. 1895-1973.
American filmmaker who won an Academy Award for his direction of The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952).

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  • FORD, John — (1894–1973)    Born John Martin Feeney in Maine, John Ford began his career in film by working bit parts in the films of his brother (Francis Ford) and others. Among his earliest bit parts was that of a Klansman in D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a …   Westerns in Cinema

  • Ford, John — I (baptized April 17, 1586, Ilsington, Devon, Eng. died 1639?) British dramatist. Early in his career he studied law and wrote collaboratively with several other playwrights, but little more is known of his life, and the dating of many of his… …   Universalium

  • Ford, John — • ФОРД (Ford) Джон (наст. имя и фам. Шон Алоизиус О Фирна или О Фини, O Fearna или O Feeney) (1.2.1895 31.8.1973)    амер. режиссёр. По нац. (ирландец. С 1913 в Голливуде ассист. режиссёра, с 1917 режиссёр. Снял неск. десятков к/м ковбойских… …   Кино: Энциклопедический словарь

  • Ford, John — (1895 1973)    Born Sean Aloysius O’Fearna (or Feeney) in Maine, the famous movie director was the son of Irish immigrants. After brief attendance at the University of Maine, he joined his brother in California and took the name Ford while… …   Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

  • Ford, John — (?1586 1640)    Born in Ilsington, Devon, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, before studying law at the Middle Temple in 1602. He became one of England s major dramatists of the Caroline period, whose tragedies some eighteen are of a high …   British and Irish poets

  • Ford, John — (1586 1639?) Autor dramático inglés. Describe amores infortunados y criminales pasiones amorosas. Obras: Lástima que sea una ramera y El corazón lacerado, entre otras. (1895 1973) Director cinematográfico estadounidense. Dirigió varias películas… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Ford, John —    см. Форд, Джон …   Режиссерская энциклопедия. Кино США

  • FORD, JOHN —    dramatist, born at Islington, North Devon; studied at Oxford, and entered the Middle Temple in 1602, but was never called to the bar; in 1606 appeared his first poetic work Fame s Memorial, an elegy on the death of the Earl of Devonshire, and… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Ford, John — pseud. di O Feeney, Sean Aloysius …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • Ford, John — (c. 1586?)    Dramatist, b. probably at Ilsington, Devonshire, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1602, and appears to have practised as a lawyer. His chief plays are The Lover s Melancholy (1629), Tis Pity, The Broken Heart, and Love s… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

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