
Known for
Directing
Born
November 24, 1908
Birthplace
Kijów, Imperium Rosyjskie (obecnie Ukraina)
Died
April 4, 1980 (aged 71)
Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; November 24, 1908 – April 4, 1980) 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, Ford escaped to t...
2006
2002
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Director
1973
Director, Screenplay
1966
Director
1964
Director
1960
Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
1958
Director, Screenplay
1955
Creative Director
1954
Director, Writer
1952
Director, Screenplay, Storyboard
1949
Director, Screenplay
1944
Editor, Director
1943
Director, Editor
1938
Director
1936
Director
1935
Director
1934
Director
1933
Writer, Director
1932
Director
1930
Director