Fun
Facts about John Ford
° Ford was the first director to receive the American Film
Institute's Lifetime Achievement award.
° During the filming of Citizen
Kane (1941), Orson Welles
repeatedly watched Ford's Stagecoach
(1939) for inspiration.
° Ford appeared as an extra in The
Birth of a Nation (Griffith,
1915), widely considered one of the most important motion
pictures of all time.
A breathtaking image of John Ford
Point in Monument Valley, Arizona. Ford shot many of his beloved
Western films at
this location. Click the
image to learn more about John Ford Point.