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