Charles E. Ford (March 26, 1899 – August 7, 1942) was a newsreel and film producer and the director of Frank Buck's jungle movie Jacaré (1942).

In 1929 Ford became managing director of Universal Newsreel and shortly thereafter spent thirty months touring Europe by automobile and plane.

One of Ford's best known Universal Newsreels was made in 1937 from 7,000 feet of film flown to New York from war-torn China, said to be the first motion picture of the warfare in Shanghai.

[2] Ford was associate producer of the Roy Rogers films Billy the Kid Returns (1938), Shine On, Harvest Moon (1938), and Come on Rangers (1938).

This filmed record of James Dannaldson's hunting expedition into the Amazon jungles is filled with wild-animal footage, including a terrifying attack by a 28-foot anaconda.