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*** While in quite a few of his Westerns German-Americans were treated as acceptable targets. On the other hand, Ford did help to perpetuate and popularize certain stereotypes about the Irish and Irish-Americans, such as the ones about their predilection for drinking and brawling. This is probably because John Ford himself [[Justified Trope|happened to have a predilection for drinking and brawling]].
* [[Production Posse]]: Ford used the same actors across all his films - what became known as the "John Ford Stock Company" - because he could count on them to perform as he needed.
** The best known were of course [[John Wayne]], [[Jimmy Stewart]], [[Henry Fonda]], [[Maureen O
** Also Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and his brother Francis Ford.
** Towards the end in [[The Sixties]] there were [[Woody Strode]], Patrick Wayne (John's son), and [[Jeffrey Hunter]].
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