Polish film director
Educated at Warsaw University.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 357-360. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
After World War II he headed the government-controlled Film Polski organization.
Father of Aleksander Ford.
His documentary Mir kumen on , concerning impoverished Jewish and Polish orphans in a sanatorium, was banned for being "a vehicle for Communist propaganda".
Along with fellow Pole Jerzy Bossak , he created an avant-garde cinema company, in 1943, with the aim of filming reports on the Polish struggle and the work of the partisans in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
Son of the director Aleksander Ford and Olga Ford.
