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Hugh Ford

1868–1942 · American theatrical director, film director and screenwriter

Hugh Ford was an American stage actor, director, and producer. He performed on stage as an actor from 1889 through 1904. From 1898 on he also directed plays: for stock companies, the F. F. Proctor organization, Liebler & Company, and later as an independent through 1932. His Broadway credits span over forty years as performer and creative crew; he also adapted and wrote several plays, and an article on modern stagecraft as employed in early films. He worked in the silent film industry for eight years, directing 31 films and writing for 19 between 1913 and 1921. This film experience later proved useful when he directed and co-produced the Kaufman and Connelly Broadway hit, Merton of the Movies, which ran an entire season for nearly 400 performances. Ford retired in 1932, devoting himself to landscape art until his death ten years later.

Hugh Ford, in order

  1. 1913 The Prisoner of Zenda: wrote · directed by Edwin Stanton Porter
  2. 1914 Such a Little Queen: directed, wrote
  3. 1914 The Crucible: directed, wrote
  4. 1915 Bella Donna: directed
  5. 1915 Lydia Gilmore: directed, wrote
  6. 1915 Niobe: directed
  7. 1915 Poor Schmaltz: directed
  8. 1915 Sold: directed
  9. 1915 Still Waters: wrote · directed by J. Searle Dawley
  10. 1915 The Eternal City: directed
  11. 1915 The Old Homestead: wrote · directed by James Kirkwood
  12. 1915 The White Pearl: directed
  13. 1915 When We Were Twenty-One: directed
  14. 1916 Diplomacy: wrote · directed by Sidney Olcott
  15. 1916 Mice and Men: wrote · directed by J. Searle Dawley
  16. 1916 Molly Make-Believe: wrote · directed by J. Searle Dawley
  17. 1916 Saints and Sinners: wrote · directed by James Kirkwood
  18. 1916 The Moment Before: wrote · directed by Robert G. Vignola
  19. 1916 The Woman in the Case: directed
  20. 1917 Sapho: directed, wrote
  21. 1917 Seven Keys to Baldpate: directed
  22. 1917 Sleeping Fires: directed, wrote
  23. 1917 The Slave Market: directed
  24. 1918 Mrs. Dane's Defense: directed
  25. 1918 The Danger Mark: directed
  26. 1919 In Mizzoura: directed
  27. 1919 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch: directed
  28. 1919 Secret Service: directed
  29. 1919 The Woman Thou Gavest Me: directed
  30. 1920 Civilian Clothes: directed
  31. 1920 His House in Order: directed, wrote
  32. 1920 Lady Rose's Daughter: directed
  33. 1920 The Great Day: directed
  34. 1921 The Call of Youth (short film): directed
  35. 1921 The Price of Possession: directed, wrote