Aleksander Ford
Directing
November 24, 1908
Died April 4, 1980 (71 years old)
Kijów, Imperium Rosyjskie (obecnie Ukraina)
2
Acting Credits
18
Directed
Biography
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 Wajd...
