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Constance Ford is a Actor American born on 1 july 1923 at the Bronx (USA)

Constance Ford

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Birth name Constance Ford
Nationality USA
Birth 1 july 1923 at the Bronx (USA)
Death 26 february 1993 (at 69 years) at New York City (USA)

Constance Ford (July 1, 1923 – February 26, 1993) was an American actress and model. She is best known for her long-running role as Ada Hobson on the daytime soap opera Another World.

Biography

Constance Ford est née dans l'arrondissement du Bronx, à New York. Elle débute au théâtre à Broadway en février 1949, dans la pièce Mort d'un commis voyageur d'Arthur Miller (avec Lee J. Cobb et Mildred Dunnock), représentée 742 fois jusqu'en novembre 1950.

Suivent quatre autres pièces à Broadway, l'avant-dernière étant Nobody Loves an Albatross de Ronald Alexander (1963-1964, avec Robert Preston et Barnard Hughes) ; la dernière est UTBU de James Kirkwood Jr. (avec Tom Aldredge et Margaret Hamilton), jouée en 1966.

Toujours à Broadway, elle participe en 1958-1959 à la comédie musicale Say, Darling , sur une musique de Jule Styne (avec Vivian Blaine et David Wayne).

Au cinéma, Constance Ford contribue à seulement treize films américains, depuis le western La Dernière Chasse de Richard Brooks (1956, avec Robert Taylor et Stewart Granger) jusqu'à Refroidi à 99 % de John Frankenheimer (1974, avec Richard Harris et Edmond O'Brien).

Dans l'intervalle, citons Ils n'ont que vingt ans de Delmer Daves (1959, avec Richard Egan et Dorothy McGuire), Celui par qui le scandale arrive de Vincente Minnelli (1960, avec Robert Mitchum et Eleanor Parker) et L'Ange de la violence de John Frankenheimer (1962, avec Warren Beatty et Eva Marie Saint).

À la télévision, excepté un téléfilm de 1953, elle apparaît surtout dans soixante-six séries américaines dès 1949, dont Alfred Hitchcock présente (deux épisodes, 1956-1960), Gunsmoke (deux épisodes, 1956-1962) et Perry Mason (trois épisodes, 1958-1963).

Sa dernière série est le feuilleton Another World, où elle tient le rôle récurrent d'Ada Hobson durant 2 517 épisodes à partir de 1967 ; l'ultime est diffusé le 12 novembre 1992, trois mois et demi avant sa mort (en février 1993, à 69 ans), des suites d'un cancer, dans l'arrondissement de Manhattan, à New York.

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Filmography of Constance Ford (12 films)

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Actress

99 and 44/100% Dead, 1h38
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Chuck Connors, Ann Turkel, Constance Ford
Roles Dolly
Rating55% 2.7527852.7527852.7527852.7527852.752785
Harry Crown (Richard Harris), a stylish professional hit man with a pair of Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols with ivory grips, carried in a shoulder holster, is brought in by mob boss "Uncle Frank" Kelly (Edmond O'Brien) when his operation is challenged by Big Eddie (Bradford Dillman), a grinning, lisping rival.
The Caretakers, 1h37
Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Janis Paige, Constance Ford, Herbert Marshall
Roles Nurse Bracken
Rating56% 2.805662.805662.805662.805662.80566
Optimistic psychiatrist Dr. Donovan MacLeod wants to prove his theory that mental patients can benefit from group therapy. His method of treatment, with no violence or punishment, is met with a great deal of resistance from his unyielding and self-righteous head nurse, Lucretia Terry, who believes in traditional methods such as strait-jackets and padded cells for treating the mentally ill.
Rome Adventure, 1h59
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, Suzanne Pleshette, Constance Ford, Hampton Fancher
Roles Daisy Bronson
Rating63% 3.19543.19543.19543.19543.1954
New England librarian Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette) recommended a book, Lovers Must Learn, to one of her students. After defending herself and the book, she resigns telling the school board she's going to Rome where she will be surrounded by people who really know the meaning of love. Sailing from New York she picks the wrong man as a protective consort, providing two potential romantic interests. Albert Stillwell, a student of Etruscan history is a perfect gentlemen, while Roberto Orlandi (Rossano Brazzi) is the perfect mature Roman lover.
All Fall Down, 1h51
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, Brandon deWilde, Constance Ford
Roles Mrs. Mandel
Rating67% 3.395683.395683.395683.395683.39568
Berry-Berry Willart (Beatty) is a young, handsome hedonistic drifter who hates life and who has no trouble living off the women of all ages he seduces. When the women become too attached to him, his charm turns sadistic and frequently lands him in jail for battery. Berry-Berry is always on the road far from home, is rarely seen by his drunken father Ralph (Karl Malden), his controlling, manipulative mother, Annabel (Angela Lansbury), and his sixteen-year-old brother Clinton (Brandon deWilde). The story follows Clinton, who idolizes Berry-Berry but soon finds out his brother's darker side during the many times he has to bail Berry-Berry out of jail. Clinton is in love with a family friend, Echo O'Brien (Saint), and is forced to realize the type of person his brother is when Berry-Berry tragically sets his sights on Echo.
The Cabinet of Caligari, 1h45
Directed by Roger Kay
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin, Estelle Winwood, Constance Ford
Roles Christine
Rating58% 2.9150152.9150152.9150152.9150152.915015
Motorist Jane Lindstrom (Glynis Johns) has a tire blowout and seeks assistance at an estate owned by Caligari (Dan O'Herlihy), a very polite man with a German accent. After spending the night she finds that Caligari will not let her leave; he proceeds to ask some personal questions and shows her (presumably sexual) pictures that offend her.
House of Women, 1h25
Directed by Crane Wilbur, Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols, Margaret Hayes, Jeanne Cooper
Roles Sophie Brice
Rating60% 3.0468153.0468153.0468153.0468153.046815
Erica Hayden (Knight) is a young expectant mother who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years. Erica learns that she must find a guardian for her daughter or she will become a ward of the state. The prison's warden, Frank Cole (Duggan), becomes infatuated with Erica and effectively blocks her chances for a parole.
Claudelle Inglish, 1h39
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Diane McBain, John Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins, Claude Akins, Constance Ford, Frank Overton
Roles Jessie Inglish
Rating61% 3.0503853.0503853.0503853.0503853.050385
Pretty and shy young Georgia farmgirl Claudelle Inglish (Diane McBain), the daughter of a poor sharecropper Clyde Inglish (Arthur Kennedy) and his wife Jessie (Constance Ford), starts dating the poor neighbor, handsome farmboy Linn Varner (Chad Everett) during the spring of their senior year in high school. Claudelle and Linn instantly hit it off together and soon they fall in love. Her mother objects to the relationship, fearing Claudelle will end up in the same rut she is being married to a poor farmer resulting in a stormy marriage. Claudelle is forced to endure her parents' many arguments stemming from Jessie's unhappiness having to be married to Clyde, a poor but hard-working farmer.
Home from the Hill, 2h30
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Luana Patten
Roles Opal Bixby
Rating73% 3.6934853.6934853.6934853.6934853.693485
In the beginning, Captain Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum), the wealthiest and most powerful person in his East Texas town, is wounded by a jealous husband. Wade is a notorious womanizer, who lives with his beautiful wife Hannah (Eleanor Parker) who scorns him. She has raised their son Theron (George Hamilton) to be dependent upon her, but as he reaches adulthood Theron seeks his father’s help in becoming a man.
A Summer Place, 2h10
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, John Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi
Roles Helen Jorgenson
Rating68% 3.4456553.4456553.4456553.4456553.445655
A pair of onetime teenage sweethearts and lovers, Ken (Richard Egan) and Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), come from different social strata. Ken was a self-supporting college student, working as a lifeguard at the Maine resort of Pine Island, while Sylvia's nouveau riche family stayed as guests of the owners one summer between years at college. After their love affair, they married other people. Twenty years on, Sylvia has a son, Johnny (Troy Donahue), and Ken a daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee).
The Iron Sheriff, 1h13
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Darryl Hickman, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor, Will Wright
Roles Claire
Rating60% 3.001623.001623.001623.001623.00162
A stagecoach is robbed in South Dakota and its driver is killed. A dying man, Gene Walden, tells the sheriff, Sam Galt, that it was Sam's son Benjie who shot the driver. Benjie is engaged to be married to Walden's daughter.
Bailout at 43,000, 1h18
Directed by Francis D. Lyon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford, Eddie Firestone
Roles Mrs. Frances Nolan
Rating57% 2.8587052.8587052.8587052.8587052.858705
This script must be run from the command line
The Last Hunt, 1h48
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Debra Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn, Joe De Santis
Roles Peg
Rating68% 3.444233.444233.444233.444233.44423
Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger) sets out on his last hunt with his new partner, the obsessive Charles Gilson (Robert Taylor). While McKenzie has grown tired of buffalo hunting, Gilson derives a pleasure from his "stands" – killing an entire herd of buffalo at one time. When Gilson chases down and kills an Indian raiding party, he takes an Indian woman and her child captive. The presence of the native woman causes tension and Gilson becomes increasingly paranoid and deranged, leading to a stand-off between the two former partners.