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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 11, 1898
Place of Birth:
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Wallace Ford
Biography
Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique.
Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre.
Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway.
He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford.
Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) |
| 1988 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa |
| 1964 | Bristle Face | Emory Packer |
| 1960 | Tess of the Storm Country | Fred Thorson |
| 1959 | Warlock | Judge Holloway |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah | Charlie Hennessey |
| 1958 | Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown |
| 1958 | The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack |
| 1956 | Johnny Concho | Albert Dark |
| 1956 | Thunder Over Arizona | Stiles |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Henry Delaney |
| 1956 | Stagecoach To Fury | Judge Lester Farrell |
| 1956 | The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas |
| 1956 | The Maverick Queen | Jamie |
| 1955 | A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn |
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary |
| 1955 | Wichita | Arthur Whiteside |
| 1955 | Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman |
| 1955 | The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms |
| 1954 | 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley |
| 1954 | Destry | Doc Curtis |
| 1954 | She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen |
| 1954 | The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins |
| 1953 | The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride |
| 1953 | The Great Jesse James Raid | Elias Hobbs |
| 1952 | Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson |
| 1952 | Rodeo | Barbecue Jones |
| 1951 | He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs |
| 1951 | Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts |
| 1951 | Painting The Clouds With Sunshine | Sam Parks |
| 1950 | The Furies | Scotty Hyslip |
| 1950 | The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan |
| 1950 | Dakota Lil | Carter |
| 1950 | Harvey | The Taxi Driver |
| 1949 | The Set-Up | Gus |
| 1949 | Red Stallion In The Rockies | 'Talky' Carson |
| 1948 | Coroner Creek | Andy West |
| 1948 | Shed No Tears | Sam Grover |
| 1948 | The Man from Texas | Jed |
| 1948 | Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria |
| 1948 | Belle Starr's Daughter | Lafe Bailey |
| 1947 | T-Men | The Schemer |
| 1947 | Magic Town | Lou Dicketts |
| 1946 | Black Angel | Joe |
| 1946 | Dead Reckoning | McGee |
| 1946 | Crack-Up | Lt. Cochrane |
| 1946 | The Green Years | Jamie Nigg |
| 1946 | Lover Come Back | Tubbs |
| 1946 | Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan |
| 1946 | A Guy Could Change | Bill Conley |
| 1945 | Spellbound | Hotel masher |
| 1945 | The Great John L. | McManus |
| 1945 | Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller |
| 1945 | On Stage Everybody | Emmett Rogers |
| 1944 | Secret Command | Miller |
| 1944 | Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly |
| 1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | Fred Saunders |
| 1943 | The Ape Man | Jeff Carter |
| 1943 | The Cross of Lorraine | Pierre |
| 1942 | The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Spats Hunter |
| 1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins |
| 1942 | Inside the Law | Billy |
| 1941 | A Man Betrayed | Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) |
| 1941 | Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) |
| 1941 | Murder by Invitation | Bob White |
| 1941 | Roar of the Press | Wally Williams |
| 1940 | The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson |
| 1940 | Isle Of Destiny | Millard Barnes |
| 1940 | Give Us Wings | Mr. York |
| 1940 | Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! | Joe Redmond |
| 1940 | Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell |
| 1940 | Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe |
| 1939 | Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers |
| 1938 | Swing It, Sailor! | Pete Kelly |
| 1938 | The Marines Come Thru | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins |
| 1938 | Stardust | Peter Jackson |
| 1937 | Exiled to Shanghai | Ted Young |
| 1937 | O.H.M.S. | Jimmy Tracy |
| 1937 | Jericho | Mike Clancy |
| 1936 | The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly |
| 1936 | Two in the Dark | Harry Hilyer |
| 1936 | Absolute Quiet | Jack |
| 1936 | A Son Comes Home | Steve |
| 1935 | One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle |
| 1935 | The Informer | Frankie McPhillip |
| 1935 | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton |
| 1935 | The Whole Town's Talking | Healy |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper |
| 1935 | Swellhead | Terry McCall |
| 1935 | The Nut Farm | Willie Barton |
| 1935 | Get That Man | Jack Kirkland / John Prescott |
| 1935 | Another Face | Joe Haynes, Press Agent |
| 1935 | She Couldn't Take It | "Fingers" Boston |
| 1935 | In Spite of Danger | Bob Crane |
| 1934 | The Lost Patrol | Morelli |
| 1934 | Men in White | Shorty |
| 1934 | Money Means Nothing | Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay |
| 1934 | A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter |
| 1934 | I Hate Women | Scoop McGuire |
| 1934 | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | 'Curly' |
| 1933 | Employees' Entrance | Martin West |
| 1933 | Three-Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar |
| 1933 | Night of Terror | Tom Hartley |
| 1933 | Headline Shooter | Mike |
| 1933 | Goodbye Again | Arthur Westlake |
| 1933 | East of Fifth Avenue | Vic Howard |
| 1933 | My Woman | Chick Rollins |
| 1933 | The Big Cage | Russ Penny |
| 1932 | The Beast of the City | Det. Ed Fitzpatrick |
| 1932 | The Wet Parade | Jerry Tyler |
| 1932 | Are You Listening? | Larry Barnes |
| 1932 | Central Park | Rick |
| 1932 | Skyscraper Souls | Slim |
| 1932 | Hypnotized | Bill Bogard |
| 1932 | Freaks | Phroso |
| 1931 | Possessed | Al Manning |
| 1931 | X Marks the Spot | Ted Lloyd |
| 1929 | Married in Hollywood | Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | The Great Adventure | Uncle Billy Smith |
| 1963 | Vacation Playhouse | Lester Tinney |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Roger Hanover |
| 1960 | Peter Loves Mary | |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Harry |
| 1959 | The Deputy | Herk Lamson |
| 1959 | The Deputy | Marshal Herk Lamson |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | |
| 1957 | Trackdown | Eli Zach |
| 1955 | Kings Row | |
| 1955 | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Monty Smith |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Ed Rawlings |
| 1954 | Father Knows Best | |
| 1954 | Climax! | Bunco Kelly |
| 1954 | The Whistler | |
| 1954 | Inner Sanctum | |
| 1954 | Climax! | Sheriff |
| 1954 | Climax! | Dr. Karl Wexdig |
| 1954 | Climax! | Samuel Cramer |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Emory Packer |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | Boats |
| 1952 | This Is Your Life | Self |
| 1952 | The Ford Television Theatre | Talker |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Innkeeper |
| 1948 | Studio One |