{{Short description|American playwright and author}} {{Infobox person | name = Harry Chapman Ford | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, United States | death_date = May 1938 | death_place = Rutherford, New Jersey, United States | occupation = Playwright, Novelist | notable_works = ''Anna Ascends'' (play), ''Eve's Leaves'' (play), ''Ebb Tide'' (novel) }}

'''Harry Chapman Ford''' was a playwright and novelist in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/harry-chapman-ford-6109|title=Harry Chapman Ford – Broadway Cast & Staff &#124; IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/person/harry-chapman-ford-vault-0000025813|title=Harry Chapman Ford (Writer)|website=Playbill}}</ref> Two of his plays and one of his novels were adapted to film.

==Early life==

Henry Chapman Ford was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother was actress Blanche Chapman. His father was Henry Clay Ford, owner of Ford's Theatre. He had two brothers, Frank A. and George D.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=HARRY C. FORD; Son of Man Who Had Theatre Where Lincoln Was Shot |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/05/23/98139502.html?zoom=15.72 |access-date=30 June 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 May 1938 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==

Two of Ford's plays and one of his books were made into films. He was a stage director for theaters, and toured internationally with the theater adaptation of ''The Garden of Allah''. He directed Viola Allen.<ref name="Obit"/>

==Later life and death==

Ford never married. He died in May 1938 at his home in Rutherford, New Jersey of a coronary thrombosis, outlived by his two brothers and mother.<ref name="Obit"/>

==Theater== *''Anna Ascends'' (1920)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://playbill.com/production/anna-ascends-playhouse-theatre-vault-0000009497|title=Anna Ascends (Broadway, Playhouse Theatre, 1920)|website=Playbill}}</ref> *''Eve's Leaves'' (1925) *''Ebb Tide'' (1931)

==Filmography== *''Anna Ascends'' (1922) *''Eve's Leaves'' (1926) adapted by Paul Sloane from Ford's 1925 play of the same name *''Shadow of the Law'' (1926) adapted by Leah Baird and Grover Jones from Ford's novel ''Two Gates''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{find a Grave|144337756}}

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