
Francis Ford
Acting • Born 1881-08-12 – Died 1953-09-05
Biography
From Wikipedia Francis Ford (born Francis Feeney, August 14, 1881 – September 5, 1953) was a prolific film actor, writer, and director. He was the mentor and elder brother of film director John Ford. He also appeared in many of John Ford's movies, including Young Mr. Lincoln and The Quiet Man. Francis Ford was born in Portland, Maine. He was the son of John A. Feeney, who was born in the village of Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland in 1854. By 1878, John had moved to Portland, Maine and opened a saloon, at 42 Center Street, that used a false front to pose as grocery store. John opened four others in following years. After service in the infantry in the Spanish-American War, Francis left home. He drifted into the film business in New York City, working for David Horsley, Al Christie, and the Star Film Company's San Antonio operation under Gaston Méliès. He adopted the name Ford from the automobile. From San Antonio Francis began his Hollywood career working for Thomas H. Ince at Ince's Bison studio, directing and appearing in westerns. Francis Ford's younger brother, John M. Feeney, was a successful fullback and defensive tackle on a Portland High state championship football team, nicknamed "Bull". In 1914 Bull followed Francis to Hollywood, changed his name to John Ford and would eventually surpass his elder brother's considerable reputation. Francis Ford's son, Philip Ford, was also a film actor/director.
Filmography
259 credits
Stagecoach
Movie • 1939
Sgt. Billy Pickett (uncredited)

The Grapes of Wrath
Movie • 1940
Migrant (uncredited)

The Quiet Man
Movie • 1952
Dan Tobin

College Queen
Movie • 1946
Pop, The Janitor

The Princess and the Pirate
Movie • 1944
Drunken Pirate (uncredited)

Judge Priest
Movie • 1934
Juror No. 12

A Star Is Born
Movie • 1937
William Gregory (uncredited)

The Jade Box
Movie • 1930
Martin Morgan

Mannequin
Movie • 1938
Tim O'Rourke (Uncredited)

Mister Vampire
Movie • 1916
The Vampire Man

Charlie Chan at the Circus
Movie • 1936
John Gaines

Charlie Chan's Secret
Movie • 1936
Captain of salvage ship

His Majesty Dick Turpin
Movie • 1916
Prince Frederick aka Dick Turpin

The Cry of Erin
Movie • 1916
Shemus O'Brien

The Madcap Queen of Crona
Movie • 1916
Prince Frederick

The Unexpected
Movie • 1916
The Mexican Foreman

The Indians Are Coming
Movie • 1930
George Woods / Tom Woods

Brennon o' the Moor
Movie • 1916
Willy Brennon

The Princely Bandit
Movie • 1916
Prince Frederick

The Village Blacksmith
Movie • 1922
Asa Martin

Taming the West
Movie • 1925
Frosty Miller

Ridin' Thunder
Movie • 1925
Frank Douglas

Wagon Master
Movie • 1950
Mr. Peachtree

The Girl of the Golden West
Movie • 1938
Miner

High Tide
Movie • 1947
Pop Garrow

The Mummy's Tomb
Movie • 1942
Townsman (uncredited)

Men of Daring
Movie • 1927
Black Roger

Toughest Man in Arizona
Movie • 1952

Accomplice
Movie • 1946
King Connors

The Silent Trailer
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Coleman's Physician

Life in Hollywood No. 1
Movie • 1927
Self

The Boss of Camp 4
Movie • 1922
Dude McCormick

The Branded Sombrero
Movie • 1928
Link Jarvis

The Red Rider
Movie • 1925
Brown Bear

A Western Girl
Movie • 1911
Hartley

The Man from Monterey
Movie • 1933
Don Pablo Gonzales

Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie • 1939
Joe Boleo

The Ball Player and the Bandit
Movie • 1912
A Baseball Fan

The Cruise of the Hellion
Movie • 1927
Peg-leg

The Purple Domino
Movie • 1917
Hugo Loubeque

The Outcast
Movie • 1912
Evans, a Trapper

The White Gorilla
Movie • 1945
Mr. Stacey

The Impatient Maiden
Movie • 1932
Insane Asylum Warden (uncredited)

The Prisoner of Shark Island
Movie • 1936
Corporal O'Toole

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie • 1927
Captain (uncredited)

Mine to Keep
Movie • 1923
Jack Deering

The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1942
Caretaker

Driftwood
Movie • 1947
Abner Green

The Sun Shines Bright
Movie • 1953
Feeney

Rim of the Wheel
Movie • 1951
Mr. Dickerson

Billy and His Pal
Movie • 1911
Jim - the Cowpuncher

The Texans
Movie • 1938
Uncle Dud

The Chinatown Mystery
Movie • 1928
The Sphinx

The Far Frontier
Movie • 1948
Alf Sharper

The Invaders
Movie • 1912
Colonel James Bryson

Air Mail
Movie • 1932
Passenger Who'll Die on a Train (uncredited)

The World Moves On
Movie • 1934
Legionaire in Trench

The Mounted Stranger
Movie • 1930
'Spider' Coy

Tangled Fortunes
Movie • 1932
Matt Higgins

The Lariat Kid
Movie • 1929
Cal Gregg

Slave Ship
Movie • 1937
Scraps

Custer's Last Fight
Movie • 1912
General George A. Custer

In the Tall Grass Country
Movie • 1910
Bob

Viva Cisco Kid
Movie • 1940
Proprietor

Kathleen Mavourneen
Movie • 1930
James, the butler

Pirate Treasure
Movie • 1934
Dick's Friend at the Airfield

The Black Watch
Movie • 1929
MacGregor (uncredited)

Destry Rides Again
Movie • 1932
Judd Ogden

South of Pago Pago
Movie • 1940
Foster

Kentucky Moonshine
Movie • 1938
Grandpa Hatfield

Bad Lands
Movie • 1939
Charlie Garth

Wake Up and Dream
Movie • 1946
Old Man at Counter

Little Miss Nobody
Movie • 1936
Detective

Fort Apache
Movie • 1948
Fen - Stage Guard (uncredited)

The Purple Mask
Movie • 1916
Phil Kelly/The Sphinx

The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
Movie • 1916
Dr. Lund, Junior

Berlin Via America
Movie • 1918
Phil Kelly

In the Fall of '64
Movie • 1914
Capt. Ford - the Southern Officer

The Broken Coin
Movie • 1915
Count Frederick

The Heart of Lincoln
Movie • 1915
Abraham Lincoln

Mister Antonio
Movie • 1929
Bit Role (uncredited)

The Vault of Mystery
Movie • 1917

The Devil's Saddle
Movie • 1927
Pete Hepburn

Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
Movie • 1914
Hugo Loubeque

Song of the Caballero
Movie • 1930
Don Pedro Madero

Sons of the Saddle
Movie • 1930
'Red' Slade

The Silent Mystery
Movie • 1918
Phil Kelly

Washington at Valley Forge
Movie • 1914
The Spy

Tobacco Road
Movie • 1941

The Rider of Death Valley
Movie • 1932
Gabe

The Wreck of the Hesperus
Movie • 1927
John Hazzard

Scandal for Sale
Movie • 1932
Belmont Hotel Desk Clerk

Wildfire
Movie • 1945
Ezra Mills

Battling with Buffalo Bill
Movie • 1931
Jim Rodney

The Craving
Movie • 1918
Carroll Wayles

The Lost Special
Movie • 1932
Botter Hood

The Bandit's Wager
Movie • 1916
Nan's Brother / The Bandit

The Heart of an Indian
Movie • 1912
The Indian chief

Life in the Raw
Movie • 1933
Sheriff Myles

Paris in Spring
Movie • 1935
Drunken Peasant

Last of the Duanes
Movie • 1941
Luke Stevens

Upstream
Movie • 1927
Juggler

The Living Bible
Movie • 1952
Samaritan Leper

Paddy O'Day
Movie • 1936
Immigration Officer Tom McGuire

Home in Indiana
Movie • 1944
Ed - Seated Opposite J.T. in Bar (uncredited)

Murder, He Says
Movie • 1945
Lee - Old Townsman (uncredited)

Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie • 1939
Sam Boone (uncredited)

This Is the Life
Movie • 1935
Sticky Jones

Heroes of the West
Movie • 1932
Cavalry Captain

Gordon of Ghost City
Movie • 1933
Jim Carmody

On Secret Service
Movie • 1912
Abraham Lincoln

Frankenstein
Movie • 1931
Hans (uncredited)

The Mystery Of 13
Movie • 1919
Phil Kelly / Jim Kelly

Lucky Cisco Kid
Movie • 1940
Court Clerk

The Trail of '98
Movie • 1928
Gold Commissioner's Assistant (uncredited)

The Desperadoes
Movie • 1943
Hank

Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Patrick O'Shea (uncredited)

San Antone Ambush
Movie • 1949
Major Farnsworth

Cyclone Pete's Matrimony
Movie • 1910
Cyclone Pete

Branding a Thief
Movie • 1910

The Newly Born
Movie • 1910
Mr. Newlywed

The Seal of the Church
Movie • 1910

Speed Versus Death
Movie • 1910
Mr. Braggs

A Rough Night on the Bridge
Movie • 1910

The Paleface Princess
Movie • 1910
Captain Keen

The Padre's Secret
Movie • 1910
Baptiste

Love's C.Q.D.
Movie • 1910
Lt. Robert Bright

A Texas Joke
Movie • 1910

White Doe's Lovers
Movie • 1910
The Cowboy

The Ruling Passion
Movie • 1910
Tony Valero

The Little Preacher
Movie • 1910
Joe Lane

The Golden Secret
Movie • 1910
Will Brown

A Postal Substitute
Movie • 1910
Jack Flynn

Return of Ta-Wa-Wa
Movie • 1910
Ta-Wa-Wa

The Romance of Circle Ranch
Movie • 1910
Honest Jim

Won in the Fifth
Movie • 1910
Young Minister

Baseball, That's All
Movie • 1910
The Husband

In the Mission Shadows
Movie • 1910

Salt on the Bird's Tail
Movie • 1910

A Plucky American Girl
Movie • 1910

Billy's Sister
Movie • 1910
Billy

Out for Mischief
Movie • 1910
The Father

Uncle Jim
Movie • 1910

A Mountain Wife
Movie • 1910
Her Husband, a Moonshiner

His Sergeant's Stripes
Movie • 1910
The Corporal

Cowboys and Bachelor Girls
Movie • 1910
The Cowboy Hero

Pals
Movie • 1910
Denton

A Western Welcome
Movie • 1910
John

The Owner of L.L. Ranch
Movie • 1911
Jeff

Only a Sister
Movie • 1911
John

My Darling Clementine
Movie • 1946
Dad - Old Soldier (uncredited)

In the Hot Lands
Movie • 1911
The County Doctor

The Snake in the Grass
Movie • 1911
Texas Ed

Sir Percy and the Punchers
Movie • 1911
Sir Percy Granville

The Warrant for Red Rube
Movie • 1911
Red Rube

Her Faithful Heart
Movie • 1911
Bill Rank

Jack Mason's Last Deal
Movie • 1911
Jim Saunders

An Unwilling Cowboy
Movie • 1911
Jim Edwards

The Reformation of Jack Robins
Movie • 1911
Jack Robbins

Mary's Stratagem
Movie • 1911
Bill

The Spring Round-Up
Movie • 1911
Jim Dempsey

The Redemption of Rawhide
Movie • 1911
Reverend Simpson

The Immortal Alamo
Movie • 1911
Navarre

In Time for Press
Movie • 1911
Jim Ford

Her Spoiled Boy
Movie • 1911

The Kiss of Mary Jane
Movie • 1911
Black Bill

In the Right of Way
Movie • 1911
John Walsh

Bessie's Ride
Movie • 1911
John Burton

Sins of Man
Movie • 1936
Town Drunk

The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie • 1943
Alva 'Dad' Hardwicke (uncredited)

Unconquered
Movie • 1947
Frontiersman on Fort Pitt Roof (uncredited)

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Movie • 1948
Race Checker / Fisherman (uncredited)

The Lieutenant's Last Fight
Movie • 1912
Colonel Garvin

Romance of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1941
Stagecoach Driver

Smoky
Movie • 1933
Horse Buyer

Diamond Frontier
Movie • 1940
Derek Bluje

The Post Telegrapher
Movie • 1912
Bob Evans - the Post Telegrapher

Gunfighters
Movie • 1947
Cook (uncredited)

The Arizonian
Movie • 1935
Mayor Ed Comstock

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Movie • 1933
Captain Hallett

Three Faces West
Movie • 1940
Farmer Bill, with Higgins

Eyes of Texas
Movie • 1948
Thad Cameron

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Movie • 1949
Connelly - Fort Stark Suttlers Barman (uncredited)

Geronimo
Movie • 1939
Scout

Action
Movie • 1921
Soda Water Manning

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Movie • 1942
Tavern Keeper

In Old Chicago
Movie • 1938
Driver

Doctor Bull
Movie • 1933
Mr. Herring

Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Movie • 1942
Bartender

King of the Mounties
Movie • 1942
Zeke Collins (Ch. 4)

Steamboat Round the Bend
Movie • 1935
Efe

3 Godfathers
Movie • 1948
Drunk (uncredited)

Bandits of Dark Canyon
Movie • 1947
Horse Trader

The Fighting Heart
Movie • 1925
Town Fool

Hearts of Oak
Movie • 1924

The Timber Trail
Movie • 1948
Ralph Baker

The Plunderers
Movie • 1948
Barnaby

Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1941
Inebriated Courtroom Spectator

Western Union
Movie • 1941
Eastbound Stagecoach Driver

Frontier Investigator
Movie • 1949
Ed Garnett

Incendiary Blonde
Movie • 1945
Ranch Owner (uncredited)

They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Veteran (uncredited)

Murder in Trinidad
Movie • 1934
Davenant

Sleepers East
Movie • 1934
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)

The Black Masks
Movie • 1913
Fred Francis - a Crook

Possessed
Movie • 1931
Drunken Husband (uncredited)

The Informer
Movie • 1935
'Judge' Flynn

The Stampede
Movie • 1921
Robert Wagner

A Free Soul
Movie • 1931
Skid Row Drunk (uncredited)

Officer '444'
Movie • 1926
Fire Chief

Three Jumps Ahead
Movie • 1923
Ben McLean

The Leap
Movie • 1917

Soft Shoes
Movie • 1925
Quig Mundy

The Four-Footed Ranger
Movie • 1928
Brom Hockley

The Heart of Maryland
Movie • 1927
Jefferson Davis

Lash of the Whip
Movie • 1924
'Hurricane' Smith

Sisters of Eve
Movie • 1928
Pritchard

Blazing the Trail
Movie • 1912
Blake

Educating Father
Movie • 1936
Sheriff Hart

Abraham Lincoln
Movie • 1930
Sheridan's Aide (uncredited)

Hangover Square
Movie • 1945
Ogilby - Fulham Antique Dealer (uncredited)

When the Tables Turned
Movie • 1911
Cowboy

Mom and Dad
Movie • 1945
Dr. Rubin

Behind the Mask
Movie • 1916
Prince Frederick aka Dick Turpin

Who Was the Other Man?
Movie • 1917
James Walbert / Ludwig Schumann

When Lincoln Paid
Movie • 1913

The Phantom Violin
Movie • 1914

John Ermine of the Yellowstone
Movie • 1917
John Ermine

Thundering Hoofs
Movie • 1922
Daddy Bill / 'Colonel' Bill

The Climax
Movie • 1944
Backstage Attendant (Uncredited)

The Campbells Are Coming
Movie • 1915

A Study in Scarlet
Movie • 1914
Sherlock Holmes

Goin' to Town
Movie • 1935
Sheriff

The Plough and the Stars
Movie • 1936
Old Man (uncredited)

The Deserter
Movie • 1912
The Deserter

Charlie Chan's Courage
Movie • 1934
Hewitt

War on the Plains
Movie • 1912
Drake, a Treacherous Prospector

Pilgrimage
Movie • 1933
Mayor Elmer Briggs

Gentle Julia
Movie • 1936
Tubbs, Fish Peddler

Checkers
Movie • 1937
Daniel Snodgrass

California
Movie • 1947
Jessie (uncredited)

The Fortune Favors the Brave
Movie • 1908

Clancy of the Mounted
Movie • 1933
Inspector Cabot

The Lady from Longacre
Movie • 1921
Count de Freitas

The Great Reward
Movie • 1921
The American Adventurer

A Roaring Adventure
Movie • 1925
Colonel Burns

The Measure of a Man
Movie • 1924
'Pale' Peter

The Crimson Scars
Movie • 1911

Screen Snapshots Series 1, Number 16
Movie • 1920
The Director / Self

The Last Train from Madrid
Movie • 1937
Pedro Elias (uncredited)

Roman Scandals
Movie • 1933
Roman Citizen (uncredited)

Haunted Valley
Movie • 1923
Sharkey

The Ablaze in Mid-Air
Movie • 1917
Phil Kelly/The Sphinx

The Sign of the Cactus
Movie • 1925
Panhandle George

The Battle of Bull Run
Movie • 1913
Abraham Lincoln

I Am the Woman
Movie • 1921

The Demon of the Sky
Movie • 1917
Phil Kelly/The Sphinx

The Front Page
Movie • 1931
Carl - Detective (uncredited)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951