{"id":26265,"date":"2026-01-09T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26265"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:05:51","slug":"bull-feeneys-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/bull-feeneys-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull Feeney\u2019s Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f5f5f5&amp;d=winterguide_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=30&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">The talented older brother of Portland\u2019s legendary director John Ford steps out of the shadows.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">By Matthew Jude Barker<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em>The Searchers. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Grapes of Wrath. How Green Was My Valley. The Quiet Man.<\/em> The Cape Elizabeth native who directed these classic films would most likely be unknown today if it were not for Frank Feeney, alias Francis Ford, director John Ford\u2019s big brother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">John Ford, winner of six Academy Awards (four movies, two documentaries), an achievement still unsurpassed, grew up on Munjoy Hill. He followed Frank to Hollywood in 1914.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ford.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ford-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ford-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford&#8217;s Brother Steps Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1504],"class_list":["post-26265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-winterguide-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26312,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26265\/revisions\/26312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}