While most movies at the time would have hired a casting director and had him or her decide who was good for each role, Ford's films had a unique process. For a start, there was no casting director – Ford just told his friends and people who had worked for him before that he was making another movie. (Many of the same actors appear in Ford's movies over and over again, including Wayne.) "What you did was simple, once you caught on," Harry Carey Jr., who was in many of Ford's movies and appeared as settler Brad Jorgensen in "The Searchers," said. "When word got out that the Old Man was going to start a picture, you simply went over to the office for a visit, and he'd tell you whether you were in or not."
