Harry Chapman Ford was a playwright and novelist in the United States. Two of his plays and one of his novels were adapted to film.
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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.
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.
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.
Theater
Anna Ascends (1920)
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