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