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 The Sun Shines Bright
1953
Feeney
Details Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
Character TBA
Details The Living Bible
1952
Samaritan Leper
Details Rim of the Wheel
1951
Mr. Dickerson
Details Wagon Master
1950
Mr. Peachtree
Details She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
Connelly - Fort Stark Suttlers Barman (uncredited)
Details San Antone Ambush
1949
Major Farnsworth
Details Frontier Investigator
1949
Ed Garnett
Details 3 Godfathers
1948
Drunk (uncredited)
Details The Far Frontier
1948
Alf Sharper
Details Eyes of Texas
1948
Thad Cameron
Details The Timber Trail
1948
Ralph Baker
Details Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
Race Checker / Fisherman (uncredited)
Details Fort Apache
1948
Fen - Stage Guard (uncredited)
Details Bandits of Dark Canyon
1947
Horse Trader
Details Unconquered
1947
Frontiersman on Fort Pitt Roof (uncredited)
Details Gunfighters
1947
Cook (uncredited)
Details California
1947
Jessie (uncredited)
Details Wake Up and Dream
1946
Old Man at Counter
Details My Darling Clementine
1946
Dad - Old Soldier (uncredited)
Details Sister Kenny
1946
Patrick O'Shea (uncredited)
Details College Queen
1946
Pop, The Janitor
Details Incendiary Blonde
1945
Ranch Owner (uncredited)
Details The White Gorilla
1945
Mr. Stacey
Details Murder, He Says
1945
Lee - Old Townsman (uncredited)
Details Hangover Square
1945
Ogilby - Fulham Antique Dealer (uncredited)
Details The Princess and the Pirate
1944
Drunken Pirate (uncredited)
Details The Climax
1944
Backstage Attendant (Uncredited)
Details Home in Indiana
1944
Ed - Seated Opposite J.T. in Bar (uncredited)
Details The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Alva 'Dad' Hardwicke (uncredited)
Details Outlaws of Pine Ridge
1942
Bartender
Details The Mummy's Tomb
1942
Townsman (uncredited)
Details King of the Mounties
1942
Zeke Collins (Ch. 4)
Details The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
Tavern Keeper
Details The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
Caretaker
Details They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Veteran (uncredited)
Details Riders of the Purple Sage
1941
Inebriated Courtroom Spectator
Details Last of the Duanes
1941
Luke Stevens
Details Western Union
1941
Eastbound Stagecoach Driver
Details Tobacco Road
1941
Character TBA
Details Romance of the Rio Grande
1941
Stagecoach Driver
Details Diamond Frontier
1940
Derek Bluje
Details South of Pago Pago
1940
Foster
Details Three Faces West
1940
Farmer Bill, with Higgins
Details Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
Court Clerk
Details Viva Cisco Kid
1940
Proprietor
Details The Grapes of Wrath
1940
(uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Details Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Joe Boleo
Details Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
Sam Boone (uncredited)
Details Stagecoach
1939
Sgt. Billy Pickett (uncredited)
Details Kentucky Moonshine
1938
Grandpa Hatfield
Details The Girl of the Golden West
1938
Miner
Details Mannequin
1938
Tim O'Rourke (Uncredited)
Details Checkers
1937
Daniel Snodgrass
Details The Last Train from Madrid
1937
Pedro Elias
Details A Star Is Born
1937
William Gregory (uncredited)
Details The Plough and the Stars
1936
Old Man (uncredited)
Details Little Miss Nobody
1936
Detective
Details Educating Father
1936
Sheriff Hart
Details Gentle Julia
1936
Tubbs, Fish Peddler
Details Charlie Chan at the Circus
1936
John Gaines
Details The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Corporal O'Toole
Details Paddy O'Day
1936
Immigration Officer Tom McGuire
Details Charlie Chan's Secret
1936
Captain of salvage ship
Details This Is the Life
1935
Sticky Jones
Details Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
Efe
Details The Arizonian
1935
Mayor Ed Comstock
Details Paris in Spring
1935
Drunken Peasant
Details The Informer
1935
'Judge' Flynn
Details Judge Priest
1934
Juror No. 12
Details Charlie Chan's Courage
1934
Hewitt
Details The World Moves On
1934
Legionaire in Trench
Details Murder in Trinidad
1934
Davenant
Details Pirate Treasure
1934
Dick's Friend at the Airfield
Details Sleepers East
1934
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Details Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933
Captain Hallett
Details Gordon of Ghost City
1933
Jim Carmody
Details The Man from Monterey
1933
Don Pablo Gonzales
Details Pilgrimage
1933
Mayor Elmer Briggs
Details Life in the Raw
1933
Sheriff Myles
Details Clancy of the Mounted
1933
Inspector Cabot
Details The Lost Special
1932
Botter Hood
Details Air Mail
1932
Passenger Who'll Die on a Train (uncredited)
Details Heroes of the West
1932
Cavalry Captain
Details The Rider of Death Valley
1932
Gabe
Details Destry Rides Again
1932
Judd Ogden
Details Scandal for Sale
1932
Belmont Hotel Desk Clerk
Details Tangled Fortunes
1932
Matt Higgins
Details The Impatient Maiden
1932
Insane Asylum Warden (uncredited)
Details Battling with Buffalo Bill
1931
Jim Rodney
Details Frankenstein
1931
Hans (uncredited)
Details Possessed
1931
Drunken Husband (uncredited)
Details A Free Soul
1931
Skid Row Drunk (uncredited)
Details Abraham Lincoln
1930
Sheridan's Aide (uncredited)
Details The Indians Are Coming
1930
George Woods / Tom Woods
Details Sons of the Saddle
1930
'Red' Slade
Details Song of the Caballero
1930
Don Pedro Madero
Details Kathleen Mavourneen
1930
James, the butler
Details The Jade Box
1930
Martin Morgan
Details The Mounted Stranger
1930
'Spider' Coy
Details Mister Antonio
1929
Character TBA
Details The Black Watch
1929
MacGregor (uncredited)
Details The Lariat Kid
1929
Cal Gregg
Details The Chinatown Mystery
1928
The Sphinx
Details Sisters of Eve
1928
Pritchard
Details The Four-Footed Ranger
1928
Brom Hockley
Details The Trail of '98
1928
Gold Commissioner's Assistant (uncredited)
Details The Branded Sombrero
1928
Link Jarvis
Details Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927
Captain (uncredited)
Details The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927
John Hazzard
Details The Cruise of the Hellion
1927
Peg-leg
Details Life in Hollywood No. 1
1927
Self
Details The Heart of Maryland
1927
Jefferson Davis
Details The Devil's Saddle
1927
Pete Hepburn
Details Men of Daring
1927
Black Roger
Details The Silent Trailer
1926
Mrs. Coleman's Physician
Details Officer '444'
1926
Fire Chief
Details The Fighting Heart
1925
Town Fool
Details The Red Rider
1925
Brown Bear
Details Ridin' Thunder
1925
Frank Douglas
Details Taming the West
1925
Frosty Miller
Details A Roaring Adventure
1925
Colonel Burns
Details The Measure of a Man
1924
'Pale' Peter
Details Hearts of Oak
1924
Character TBA
Details Lash of the Whip
1924
'Hurricane' Smith
Details Mine to Keep
1923
Jack Deering
Details Three Jumps Ahead
1923
Ben McLean
Details The Boss of Camp 4
1922
Dude McCormick
Details The Village Blacksmith
1922
Asa Martin
Details Thundering Hoofs
1922
Daddy Bill / 'Colonel' Bill
Details The Lady from Longacre
1921
Count de Freitas
Details The Stampede
1921
Robert Wagner
Details Action
1921
Soda Water Manning
Details The Great Reward
1921
The American Adventurer
Details Screen Snapshots Series 1, Number 16
1920
The Director / Self
Details The Mystery Of 13
1919
Phil Kelly / Jim Kelly
Details The Silent Mystery
1918
Phil Kelly
Details The Craving
1918
Carroll Wayles
Details Berlin Via America
1918
Phil Kelly
Details John Ermine of the Yellowstone
1917
John Ermine
Details Who Was the Other Man?
1917
James Walbert / Ludwig Schumann
Details The Vault of Mystery
1917
Character TBA
Details The Purple Domino
1917
Hugo Loubeque
Details The Purple Mask
1916
Phil Kelly/The Sphinx
Details Mister Vampire
1916
The Vampire Man
Details The Bandit's Wager
1916
Nan's Brother / The Bandit
Details The Princely Bandit
1916
Prince Frederick
Details Brennon o' the Moor
1916
Willy Brennon
Details The Unexpected
1916
The Mexican Foreman
Details Behind the Mask
1916
Prince Frederick aka Dick Turpin
Details The Madcap Queen of Crona
1916
Prince Frederick
Details The Cry of Erin
1916
Shemus O'Brien
Details His Majesty Dick Turpin
1916
Prince Frederick aka Dick Turpin
Details The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
1916
Dr. Lund, Junior
Details The Campbells Are Coming
1915
Character TBA
Details The Broken Coin
1915
Count Frederick
Details The Heart of Lincoln
1915
Abraham Lincoln
Details A Study in Scarlet
1914
Sherlock Holmes
Details The Phantom Violin
1914
Character TBA
Details Washington at Valley Forge
1914
The Spy
Details In the Fall of '64
1914
Capt. Ford - the Southern Officer
Details Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
1914
Hugo Loubeque
Details The Black Masks
1913
Fred Francis - a Crook
Details When Lincoln Paid
1913
Character TBA
Details The Invaders
1912
Colonel James Bryson
Details The Ball Player and the Bandit
1912
A Baseball Fan
Details On Secret Service
1912
Abraham Lincoln
Details Custer's Last Fight
1912
General George A. Custer
Details The Outcast
1912
Evans, a Trapper
Details The Lieutenant's Last Fight
1912
Colonel Garvin
Details The Post Telegrapher
1912
Bob Evans - the Post Telegrapher
Details The Deserter
1912
The Deserter
Details The Heart of an Indian
1912
The Indian chief
Details War on the Plains
1912
Drake, a Treacherous Prospector
Details Bessie's Ride
1911
John Burton
Details In the Right of Way
1911
John Walsh
Details The Kiss of Mary Jane
1911
Black Bill
Details When the Tables Turned
1911
Cowboy
Details Her Spoiled Boy
1911
Character TBA
Details In Time for Press
1911
Jim Ford
Details The Immortal Alamo
1911
Navarre
Details The Redemption of Rawhide
1911
Reverend Simpson
Details The Spring Round-Up
1911
Jim Dempsey
Details The Reformation of Jack Robins
1911
Jack Robbins
Details An Unwilling Cowboy
1911
Jim Edwards
Details Jack Mason's Last Deal
1911
Jim Saunders
Details Her Faithful Heart
1911
Bill Rank
Details The Warrant for Red Rube
1911
Red Rube
Details Sir Percy and the Punchers
1911
Sir Percy Granville
Details The Snake in the Grass
1911
Texas Ed
Details In the Hot Lands
1911
The County Doctor
Details Billy and His Pal
1911
Jim - the Cowpuncher
Details The Owner of L.L. Ranch
1911
Jeff
Details The Crimson Scars
1911
Character TBA
Details In the Tall Grass Country
1910
Bob
Details Cowboys and Bachelor Girls
1910
The Cowboy Hero
Details His Sergeant's Stripes
1910
The Corporal
Details A Mountain Wife
1910
Her Husband, a Moonshiner
Details Out for Mischief
1910
The Father
Details Billy's Sister
1910
Character TBA
Details A Plucky American Girl
1910
Character TBA
Details Salt on the Bird's Tail
1910
Character TBA
Details In the Mission Shadows
1910
Character TBA
Details Baseball, That's All
1910
The Husband
Details Won in the Fifth
1910
Young Minister
Details The Romance of Circle Ranch
1910
Honest Jim
Details Return of Ta-Wa-Wa
1910
Ta-Wa-Wa
Details A Postal Substitute
1910
Jack Flynn
Details The Golden Secret
1910
Will Brown
Details The Little Preacher
1910
Joe Lane
Details The Ruling Passion
1910
Tony Valero
Details White Doe's Lovers
1910
The Cowboy
Details A Texas Joke
1910
Character TBA
Details Love's C.Q.D.
1910
Lt. Robert Bright
Details The Padre's Secret
1910
Baptiste
Details The Paleface Princess
1910
Captain Keen
Details A Rough Night on the Bridge
1910
Character TBA
Details Speed Versus Death
1910
Mr. Braggs
Details The Seal of the Church
1910
Character TBA
Details The Newly Born
1910
Mr. Newlywed
Details Branding a Thief
1910
Character TBA
Details Cyclone Pete's Matrimony
1910
Cyclone Pete
Details Fortune Favors the Brave
1909
Character TBA
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