Derek Ford

Derek Ford

Derek Ford (6 September 1932, Essex – 19 May 1995) was an English film director and writer, most famous for sexploitation films such as The Wife Swappers (1970), Suburban Wives (1971), Commuter Husbands (1972), Keep It Up, Jack (1973), Sex Express (1975) (also filmed in a graphic hardcore version), What's Up Nurse! (1977) and What's Up Superdoc! (1978). Ford began as a writer in collaboration with his brother Donald Ford (died 1991), originally for radio before progressing to television (The Saint, Adam Adamant Lives!) and film (The Yellow Teddy Bears, The Black Torment, A Study in Terror and Hell Boats). Ford's first foray into directing, Los Tres Que Robbaran Una Banco, made in Spain in 1961 was an unhappy experience, around the same time Ford entered sexploitation when he was asked to re-edit and film additional sequences for a Swedish sex film called Svenska Flickor I Paris, eventually released as Paris Playgirls. Ford's directing career began proper in the late sixties when he entered into partnership with producer Stanley Long, resulting in three films including the massively successful The Wife Swappers, released in America as The Swappers with the tag line "remember when all the guy next door wanted to borrow was your lawnmower?". Ford's early seventies films were mainly shot in London and Maldon, Essex where he lived, while hardcore scenes meant for the European versions of his films were shot in secret at his own house, with his then wife Valerie acting as assistant, wardrobe & makeup. Interviewed in the book, Keeping the British End Up, fellow director Ray Selfe referred to Ford as "a male nymphomaniac", and themes of swinging, wife swapping and outwardly respectable people living double lives run throughout Ford's work. In the 1970s the two most well-known Ford films in America were Groupie Girl (1970) and Sex Express (1975) starring Heather Deeley. Released as Diversions in the U.S, Sex Express premiered in the Kips Bay area of Manhattan and was nominated for best foreign film by the Adult Film Association of America. In Italy he directed Erotic Fantasies (1978) aka Proibito erotico and back in England he quit as the director of Don't Open till Christmas (1984). In the mid-eighties after his divorce, Ford was left to bring up his two children on his own. At this time he attempted to find more mainstream work and dissociate himself from his past, but what little work came his way would drag him back to exploitation film. He directed La Casa delle Orchidee (The House of Orchids) in Italy in 1983, in which (returning to the themes of The Wife Swappers) a group of Italian women join a 'dare club', and co-directed a Hills Have Eyes rip-off in Sweden called Blood Tracks[1] which also features a brief cameo role from Ford as a location scout for a rock video (Ford's only other known acting role is as "Circus Santa Claus" in Don't Open Till Christmas). He was also involved in writing a never-made softcore sitcom called Park Lane. Ford's final film, The Urge to Kill, starring Peter Gordeno & Sarah Hope-Walker has never been given an official release, although clips from it appear in the 2005 documentary The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall, and several bootlegs of it have surfaced over the years.[2] The film was eventually given an official DVD release in France on 1 April 2014 by the Uncut Movies label.

  • Title : Derek Ford
  • Popularity : 1.273
  • Known For : Writing
  • Birthday : 1932-09-06
  • Place of Birth : Tilbury - Essex - United Kingdom
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Derek Ford Movies

  • 1984
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    The Making of a Horror Film

    The Making of a Horror Film

    1 1984 HD

    Documentary/promotional film on the making of the horror film Don't Open Til Christmas.

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  • 1964
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    Saturday Night Out

    Saturday Night Out

    5.7 1964 HD

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  • 1968
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    Corruption

    Corruption

    5.7 1968 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Girl from Starship Venus

    The Girl from Starship Venus

    4.2 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Girl from Starship Venus

    The Girl from Starship Venus

    4.2 1975 HD

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  • 1984
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    Don't Open Till Christmas

    Don't Open Till Christmas

    4.779 1984 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Urge to Kill

    The Urge to Kill

    5.3 1989 HD

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  • 1973
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    The House That Vanished

    The House That Vanished

    5.5 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    I Am a Groupie

    I Am a Groupie

    2.9 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    I Am a Groupie

    I Am a Groupie

    2.9 1970 HD

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  • 1974
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    Commuter Husbands

    Commuter Husbands

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Commuter Husbands

    Commuter Husbands

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Wife Swappers

    The Wife Swappers

    4.6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Wife Swappers

    The Wife Swappers

    4.6 1970 HD

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  • 1978
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    What's Up Nurse

    What's Up Nurse

    4.4 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    What's Up Nurse

    What's Up Nurse

    4.4 1978 HD

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  • 1976
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    Diversions

    Diversions

    4.8 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Diversions

    Diversions

    4.8 1976 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Yellow Teddy Bears

    The Yellow Teddy Bears

    4.3 1963 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Casting Couch

    The Casting Couch

    9 1995 HD

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  • 1965
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    A Study in Terror

    A Study in Terror

    6.3 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    A Study in Terror

    A Study in Terror

    6.3 1965 HD

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  • 1974
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    Venom

    Venom

    4.8 1974 HD

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  • 1973
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    The House That Vanished

    The House That Vanished

    5.5 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    The World at Their Feet

    The World at Their Feet

    7 1970 HD

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  • 1962
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    Stork Talk

    Stork Talk

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1974
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    Keep It Up, Jack!

    Keep It Up, Jack!

    3.1 1974 HD

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  • 1965
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    Primitive London

    Primitive London

    5.8 1965 HD

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  • 1978
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    What's Up Superdoc!

    What's Up Superdoc!

    3.2 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    What's Up Superdoc!

    What's Up Superdoc!

    3.2 1978 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Black Torment

    The Black Torment

    5.8 1964 HD

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  • 1967
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    Son of the City

    Son of the City

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Urge to Kill

    The Urge to Kill

    5.3 1989 HD

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  • 1978
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    Forbidden Erotica

    Forbidden Erotica

    2.5 1978 HD

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  • 1983
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    The House of Orchids

    The House of Orchids

    3 1983 HD

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  • 1969
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    A Promise of Bed

    A Promise of Bed

    2.2 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    Secret Rites

    Secret Rites

    4.6 1971 HD

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  • 1974
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    Keep It Up, Jack!

    Keep It Up, Jack!

    3.1 1974 HD

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  • 1969
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    A Promise of Bed

    A Promise of Bed

    2.2 1969 HD

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  • 1972
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    Suburban Wives

    Suburban Wives

    2.5 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Suburban Wives

    Suburban Wives

    2.5 1972 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.3 1970 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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