Paul Ford Filmography

Born:: November 2, 1901 in Baltimore, MD
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Paul Ford Weaver
Biography:: After having drifted from job to job--with a wife and five children in tow--Baltimore native Paul Ford decided in his late 30s to give acting a try. He worked with the Depression-era W.P.A. agency in a puppet show project and also wrote shows for the Federal Theatre; his biggest break came when he...Read More

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Richard

Synopsis: This prescient satirical drama (it came out before Watergate) takes a harsh look at Richard Nixon. His rise to political power is chronicled from his boyhood to his first go at becoming a Congressional candidate to his involvement with three devilish advisers. Later after suffering a series of Read More

1972
Fair Play

1972
Journey Back to Oz

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this animated follow-up to the classic fantasy The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy (voiced by Liza Minnelli, whose mother Judy Garland played the same role in the 1939 film) decides to return to the land of Oz to pay a visit to her good friend The Scarecrow (voice of Mickey Rooney). However, shortly Read More

1971
Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

1969
In Name Only

Actors: Ruth Buzzi, Christopher Connelly, Bill Daily

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers TV movie features an all-star cast in a comedy of marital mix-ups and misunderstandings. Consultants Michael Callan and Ann Prentiss arrange the marriages of several couples, only to discover that all the unions are illegal. Among those affected are a cop (Christopher Connelly) Read More

1969
The Comedians

Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

Synopsis: The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the Read More

1967
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!

Actors: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin Read More

1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman

Synopsis: When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea that the dog has a highly sensitive bug in its stomach. This lively British espionage farce follows what happens after the dog becomes sick. It's a sticky situation, for if a Read More

1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Actors: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Jr., Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford, Chester Conklin, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the wealthiest men in the West (among them Jason Robards Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford and Paul Ford). Into this rarefied atmosphere trudges impoverished farmer Henry Read More

1966
Never Too Late

Actors: Paul Ford, Connie Stevens, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jim Hutton, Jane Wyatt

Synopsis: In this comedy, a middle-aged woman discovers that she is pregnant, to the dismay of her husband and surprise of the town. The husband doesn't feel up to the challenge, and their daughter is now forced to cook and clean around the house, and meanwhile, tries to get pregnant herself. After a Read More

1965
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

11/7/63
Who's Got the Action?

Actors: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Nita Talbot, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, John McGiver

Synopsis: Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also rouses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Walter Read More

1963
The Music Man

Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford

Synopsis: Meredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary stage performance as fast-talking con man Harold Hill, who goes from town to town selling citizens on starting a "boy's band," then extracts money Read More

1962
Advise and Consent

Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney

Synopsis: The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the screen by producer/director Otto Preminger. The film hinges upon the appointment of Robert Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) to Secretary of State. Leffingwell has been hand-picked by Read More

1962
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hat Box

Synopsis: The seventh season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with a nasty little tale of academic gamesmanship featuring former Phil Silvers Show regular Paul Ford and onetime Father Knows Best co-star Billy Gray. Ford plays college anatomy professor Jarvis, who finds out that one of his Read More

1961
The Matchmaker

Actors: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play The Merchant of Yonkers was based on an old British stage farce by John Oxenford (which in turn served as the basis of an Austrian farce by Johann Nestroy). Merchant of Yonkers was a bomb, but Wilder was quite fond of the piece, so he revised it as the Read More

1958
The Missouri Traveler

Actors: Brandon de Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Mary Hosford

Synopsis: Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde heads the cast as 15-year-old orphan boy Biarn Turner. Doing his best to survive in the rural South of the pre-WW1 years, Biarn is unofficially adopted by crusty small-town Read More

1958
Studio One: The Tale of St. Emergency

Synopsis: An original story by no less than Jackie Gleason was the basis of this one-hour drama, originally telecast live on the CBS dramatic anthology Studio One. Decked out in white robes and a cute little halo, comedian Red Buttons stars as St. Emergency, a celestial troubleshooter whose aid is summoned Read More

1956
Bloomer Girl

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21 inch screen. The series' May 28, 1956 presentation was an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Bloomer Girl, which originally Read More

1956
The Teahouse of the August Moon

Actors: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford

Synopsis: Marlon Brando went out on yet another creative limb when he insisted upon playing sly, philosophical Okinawan interpreter Sakima in the 1956 filmization of John Patrick's Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon. While he occasionally lapses into "flied lice" stereotyping, for the most part Read More

1956
The Phil Silvers Show: Season 01

1955
The Kid from Texas

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast as a relatively benign Billy. Hoping to put down his guns and go straight, the Kid takes a job as a ranchhand. When his kindly boss is murdered, however, all bets are off Read More

1950
Perfect Strangers

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur Broadway comedy Ladies and Gentlemen formed the basis of the Warner Bros. laughspinner Perfect Strangers. The title characters are Terry Scott and David Campbell, played by Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. She's a divorcee, he's a husband and father. Terry and David Read More

1950
Lust for Gold

Actors: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western melodrama when he aimed his sights at Lust for Gold. Most of the film is told in flashback, relating the exploits of Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford), the greedy, homicidal owner of the Read More

1949
All the King's Men

Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his Read More

1949
Naked City

Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of jewelry that she supposedly owned is missing. The Naked City is actually about six days in the life of New York City that coincide with the murder and the subsequent investigation Read More

1948
The House on 92nd Street

Actors: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. Thanks to covert surveillance, the FBI learns of the presence of several suspicious persons in NYC. William Eythe is a German-American college student Read More

1945