---
name: "Ford Wheeler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ford-wheeler"
fi1m_id: "ford-wheeler"
imdb_id: "nm0923820"
tmdb_id: 20569
wikidata_id: "Q21526758"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:01:09.268564+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ford Wheeler

## Identity

Ford Wheeler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ford-wheeler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ford-wheeler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0923820
- **TMDB ID:** 20569
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21526758
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21526758, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20569

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1993–2008
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 76 (1), 2000s 81 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21526758, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20569

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Rachel Getting Married*](https://film.one/film/rachel-getting-married.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ford Wheeler is a production designer and set decorator. He began working in film as a set dresser on *Philadelphia* (1993) and later served as set decorator on titles including *Any Given Sunday* (1999), *Kids* (1995) and *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006).

His production design credits include *We Own the Night* (2007), *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), *Let Me In* (2010), *This Is Where I Leave You* (2014), *Ben Is Back* (2018) and *Private Life* (2018). He has also designed for television series such as *The Affair* (2014–2015) and *Let the Right One In* (2022).

*Sources: imdb.com, oak1.the-numbers.com, archive.nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Philadelphia* (1993), Fi1m 76, as Alan — [page](https://film.one/film/philadelphia.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), Fi1m 84, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-getting-married.md)
- *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006), Fi1m 78, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-fiction.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Better Sister* (2025), series, Production Design
- *Ben Is Back* (2018), Production Design
- *Private Life* (2018), Production Design
- *This Is Where I Leave You* (2014), Production Design
- *Blood Ties* (2013), Production Design
- *Not Fade Away* (2012), Production Design
- *Let Me In* (2010), Production Design
- *Greenberg* (2010), Production Design
- *After.Life* (2009), Production Design
- *The Rebound* (2009), Production Design
- *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-getting-married.md)
- *We Own the Night* (2007), Production Design
- *Reservation Road* (2007), Production Design
- *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-fiction.md)
- *Birth* (2004), as Set Decoration
- *She Hate Me* (2004), as Set Decoration
- *The Truth About Charlie* (2002), as Art Direction
- *Bamboozled* (2000), as Set Decoration
- *The Yards* (2000), as Set Decoration
- *Any Given Sunday* (1999), as Set Decoration
- *Into My Heart* (1998), Production Design
- *Office Killer* (1997), as Art Direction
- *Kicked in the Head* (1997), as Set Decoration
- *The Blood Oranges* (1997), Creative Consultant
- *Kids* (1995), as Set Decoration
- *Philadelphia* (1993), as Alan — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/philadelphia.md)
- *The Music of Chance* (1993), Assistant Art Director

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