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. From Wikipedia.
Movie | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa | 1965-12-10 |
Movie | Bristle Face | Emory Packer | 1964-01-26 |
Series | The Great Adventure | Uncle Billy Smith | 1963-09-27 |
Series | Vacation Playhouse | Lester Tinney | 1963-07-22 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Roger Hanover | 1960-10-03 |
Series | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Harry | 1960-09-19 |
Series | Peter Loves Mary | Unknown | 1960-10-12 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Fred Thorson | 1960-12-08 |
Movie | Warlock | Judge Holloway | 1959-05-15 |
Series | The Deputy | Herk Lamson | 1959-09-12 |
Movie | Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown | 1958-08-04 |
Movie | The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack | 1958-07-23 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | The Last Hurrah | Charlie Hennessey | 1958-12-31 |
Series | Trackdown | Unknown | 1957-10-04 |
Movie | The First Texan | Henry Delaney | 1956-06-29 |
Movie | Johnny Concho | Albert Dark | 1956-07-01 |
Movie | The Maverick Queen | Jamie | 1956-05-03 |
Movie | Stagecoach To Fury | Judge Lester Farrell | 1956-12-13 |
Movie | Thunder Over Arizona | Stiles | 1956-08-04 |
Movie | The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas | 1956-12-13 |
Series | Kings Row | Unknown | 1955-09-13 |
Movie | Wichita | Arthur Whiteside | 1955-07-03 |
Movie | The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary | 1955-08-19 |
Series | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Monty Smith | 1955-10-05 |
Series | Screen Director's Playhouse | Ed Rawlings | 1955-10-05 |
Movie | A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn | 1955-11-15 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms | 1955-12-23 |
Movie | Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman | 1955-10-20 |
Movie | The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins | 1954-02-27 |
Movie | She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen | 1954-02-15 |
Series | Inner Sanctum | Unknown | 1954-01-09 |
Series | The Whistler | Unknown | 1954-07-13 |
Movie | Destry | Doc Curtis | 1954-12-01 |
Series | Father Knows Best | Unknown | 1954-10-03 |
Series | The Wonderful World of Disney | Emory Packer | 1954-10-27 |
Movie | 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley | 1954-12-22 |
Series | Climax! | Samuel Cramer | 1954-10-07 |
Movie | The Great Jesse James Raid | Elias Hobbs | 1953-07-17 |
Movie | The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride | 1953-12-02 |
Movie | Rodeo | Barbecue Jones | 1952-03-09 |
Movie | Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson | 1952-06-26 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Self | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs | 1951-06-20 |
Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Innkeeper | 1951-10-05 |
Movie | Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | 1951-11-22 |
Movie | Painting The Clouds With Sunshine | Sam Parks | 1951-10-10 |
Movie | The Furies | Scotty Hyslip | 1950-08-16 |
Movie | Dakota Lil | Carter | 1950-02-17 |
Movie | The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan | 1950-10-06 |
Movie | Harvey | The Taxi Driver | 1950-12-04 |
Movie | The Set-Up | Gus | 1949-03-29 |
Movie | Red Stallion In The Rockies | 'Talky' Carson | 1949-05-02 |
Movie | Shed No Tears | Sam Grover | 1948-06-09 |
Movie | The Man from Texas | Jed | 1948-03-06 |
Movie | Coroner Creek | Andy West | 1948-07-01 |
Movie | Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria | 1948-08-21 |
Movie | Belle Starr's Daughter | Lafe Bailey | 1948-11-13 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Magic Town | Lou Dicketts | 1947-10-07 |
Movie | T-Men | The Schemer | 1947-12-15 |
Movie | The Green Years | Jamie Nigg | 1946-07-04 |
Movie | Lover Come Back | Tubbs | 1946-06-21 |
Movie | Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan | 1946-07-22 |
Movie | A Guy Could Change | Bill Conley | 1946-01-27 |
Movie | Black Angel | Joe | 1946-08-02 |
Movie | Dead Reckoning | McGee | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | Crack-Up | Lt. Cochrane | 1946-09-06 |
Movie | Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller | 1945-04-26 |
Movie | The Great John L. | McManus | 1945-05-25 |
Movie | Spellbound | Hotel masher | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | On Stage Everybody | Emmett Rogers | 1945-07-13 |
Movie | Secret Command | Miller | 1944-07-30 |
Movie | Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly | 1944-08-18 |
Movie | Shadow of a Doubt | Fred Saunders | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | The Ape Man | Jeff Carter | 1943-03-05 |
Movie | The Cross of Lorraine | Pierre | 1943-11-12 |
Movie | All Through the Night | Spats Hunter | 1942-01-10 |
Movie | Inside the Law | Billy | 1942-05-08 |
Movie | The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson | 1942-10-23 |
Movie | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | A Man Betrayed | Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | 1941-03-07 |
Movie | Roar of the Press | Wally Williams | 1941-04-17 |
Movie | Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | 1941-11-15 |
Movie | Murder by Invitation | Bob White | 1941-06-30 |
Movie | Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe | 1940-04-19 |
Movie | Isle Of Destiny | Millard Barnes | 1940-03-08 |
Movie | Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! | Joe Redmond | 1940-06-07 |
Movie | Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell | 1940-07-20 |
Movie | Give Us Wings | Mr. York | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson | 1940-09-20 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | The Marines Come Thru | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | 1938-08-04 |
Movie | Swing It, Sailor! | Pete Kelly | 1938-02-04 |
Movie | Stardust | Peter Jackson | 1938-03-25 |
Movie | O.H.M.S. | Jimmy Tracy | 1937-01-01 |
Movie | Exiled to Shanghai | Ted Young | 1937-12-20 |
Movie | Jericho | Mike Clancy | 1937-08-23 |
Movie | Absolute Quiet | Jack | 1936-04-24 |
Movie | Two in the Dark | Harry Hilyer | 1936-01-10 |
Movie | The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly | 1936-06-04 |
Movie | A Son Comes Home | Steve | 1936-07-31 |
Movie | The Nut Farm | Willie Barton | 1935-03-24 |
Movie | In Spite of Danger | Bob Crane | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | 1935-01-25 |
Movie | One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle | 1935-05-01 |
Movie | The Whole Town's Talking | Healy | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | Swellhead | Terry McCall | 1935-05-04 |
Movie | Another Face | Joe Haynes, Press Agent | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper | 1935-11-15 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | "Fingers" Boston | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | The Informer | Frankie McPhillip | 1935-05-09 |
Movie | Get That Man | Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | 1935-07-10 |
Movie | Men in White | Shorty | 1934-04-06 |
Movie | A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | 1934-02-06 |
Movie | I Hate Women | Scoop McGuire | 1934-05-10 |
Movie | The Lost Patrol | Morelli | 1934-02-16 |
Movie | Money Means Nothing | Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | 1934-06-14 |
Movie | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | 'Curly' | 1934-12-24 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | The Big Cage | Russ Penny | 1933-05-01 |
Movie | Night of Terror | Tom Hartley | 1933-04-23 |
Movie | Headline Shooter | Mike | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | Employees' Entrance | Martin West | 1933-02-11 |
Movie | Three-Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar | 1933-08-08 |
Movie | My Woman | Chick Rollins | 1933-10-04 |
Movie | East of Fifth Avenue | Vic Howard | 1933-11-28 |
Movie | Goodbye Again | Arthur Westlake | 1933-09-09 |
Movie | The Beast of the City | Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | 1932-02-13 |
Movie | Freaks | Phroso | 1932-01-01 |
Movie | Are You Listening? | Larry Barnes | 1932-03-21 |
Movie | Skyscraper Souls | Slim | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Jerry Tyler | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Hypnotized | Bill Bogard | 1932-12-25 |
Movie | Central Park | Rick | 1932-12-10 |
Movie | Possessed | Al Manning | 1931-11-21 |
Movie | X Marks the Spot | Ted Lloyd | 1931-12-13 |
Movie | Married in Hollywood | Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) | 1929-09-22 |