# Harry Chapman Ford

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{{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](/source/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](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland). His mother was actress [Blanche Chapman](/source/Blanche_Chapman). His father was Henry Clay Ford, owner of [Ford's Theatre](/source/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](/source/The_Garden_of_Allah_(novel))''. He directed [Viola Allen](/source/Viola_Allen).<ref name="Obit"/>

==Later life and death==

Ford never married. He died in May 1938 at his home in [Rutherford, New Jersey](/source/Rutherford%2C_New_Jersey) of a [coronary thrombosis](/source/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](/source/Anna_Ascends)'' (1922)
*''[Eve's Leaves](/source/Eve's_Leaves)'' (1926) adapted by Paul Sloane from Ford's 1925 play of the same name 
*''[Shadow of the Law](/source/Shadow_of_the_Law_(1926_film))'' (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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