Aleksander Ford
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-11-24 (72 years old)
Deathday
1980-04-04
Place of Birth
Kijów, Imperium Rosyjskie (obecnie Ukraina)
Also known As
Alexander Ford
Александр Форд
Mosze Lifszyc
Aleksander Ford
Biography
Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc) was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Ford became director of the nationalized Film Polski company following the Red Army occupation of Poland. In 1948 the new communist authorities appointed him professor of the National Film School in Łódź. Roman Polanski was among his students. Another of Ford's protégés was the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. Ford made his first feature film, Mascot in 1930, after a year of making short silent films. He did not use sound until The Legion of the Streets (1932). When World War II began, ...
Acting
2006
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1960
as Director
1934
as Director
1935
as Director
1952
as Director
1933
as Writer
1964
as Director
1958
as Director
1943
as Director
1943
as Editor
1975
as Director
1954
as Director
1954
as Writer
1966
as Director
1936
as Director
1949
as Director
1933
as Director
1960
as Dialogue
1960
as Screenplay
1944
as Editor
1930
as Director
1958
as Screenplay
1973
as Director
1952
as Screenplay
1952
as Storyboard
1944
as Director
1955
as Creative Director
1932
as Director
1938
as Director
1973
as Screenplay
1949
as Screenplay
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