Jeffrey Byron's mother, British actress Anna Lee, was a member of John Ford's famous movie stock company: beginning with How Green Was My Valley through Fort Apache right up to his last film Seven Women. Ford was Jeffrey's godfather and gave his godson his first screen role at the age of seven in Donovan's Reef starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin. Jeffrey retired at 11 then returned to the screen as a young man in two Peter Bogdanovich films and gave Tatum O'Neal her first screen kiss in International Velvet. He continues to act - appearing most recently in the new J.J. Abrams' Star Trek - and is busy managing the literary estate of his late step-father Robert Nathan. Jeffrey is presently producing three screen adaptations of Nathan's work.