John Ford was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA. Has won more directing Oscars than any other director: four, for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). He also won an Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject for The Battle of Midway (1942) and an Oscar for Best Documentary for December 7th (1943). There was a group of actors, known informally as the John Ford Stock Company (John Wayne, Harry Carey, John Carradine, Henry Fonda, etc.) that turned up regularly in Fordīs films. They knew how to work with Ford and with each other, which suited Fordīs directing style: "I tell the actors what I want and they give it to me, usually on the first take."
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