Hugh Ford

Ford, Hugh (1868–1952), director. After beginning his career as an actor, he served several seasons in stock, both as a player and a director, before coming to the attention of George C. Tyler. For many years thereafter he was the leading director for Liebler and Co. Tyler came to consider him “the greatest director alive,” and Owen Davis recalled that he “had probably the longest unbroken string of successes of any contemporary director.” While these may have been exaggerations, his list of credits included Salomy Jane (1907), The Man from Home (1908), The Melting Pot (1909), The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1909), Alias Jimmy Valentine (1910), The Deep Purple (1911), The Garden of Allah (1911), Potash and Perlmutter (1913), The Yellow Ticket (1914), and Merton of the Movies (1922). He was also famous as a director of silent films.