Wallace Ford
Acting • Born 1898-02-11 – Died 1966-06-11
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. From Wikipedia.
Filmography
150 credits
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Hotel masher
Black Angel
Movie • 1946
Joe
Dead Reckoning
Movie • 1946
McGee
The Beast of the City
Movie • 1932
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
Shadow of a Doubt
Movie • 1943
Fred Saunders
The Mummy's Hand
Movie • 1940
Babe Jenson
A Man Betrayed
Movie • 1941
Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
He Ran All the Way
Movie • 1951
Fred Dobbs
Blues in the Night
Movie • 1941
Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
A Patch of Blue
Movie • 1965
Ole Pa
Crack-Up
Movie • 1946
Lt. Cochrane
T-Men
Movie • 1947
The Schemer
The Furies
Movie • 1950
Scotty Hyslip
The Mummy's Tomb
Movie • 1942
Babe Hanson
One Frightened Night
Movie • 1935
Joe Luvalle
All Through the Night
Movie • 1942
Spats Hunter
A Lawless Street
Movie • 1955
Dr. Amos Wynn
Johnny Concho
Movie • 1956
Albert Dark
Coroner Creek
Movie • 1948
Andy West
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Judge Holloway
The Ape Man
Movie • 1943
Jeff Carter
Employees' Entrance
Movie • 1933
Martin West
The Informer
Movie • 1935
Frankie McPhillip
3 Ring Circus
Movie • 1954
Sam Morley
Back Door to Heaven
Movie • 1939
Frankie Rogers
The Breaking Point
Movie • 1950
F.R. Duncan
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Movie • 1935
Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
The Set-Up
Movie • 1949
Gus
The Lost Patrol
Movie • 1934
Morelli
The Man from Laramie
Movie • 1955
Charley O'Leary
The Rogues' Tavern
Movie • 1936
Jimmy Kelly
The Whole Town's Talking
Movie • 1935
Healy
Secret Command
Movie • 1944
Miller
Shed No Tears
Movie • 1948
Sam Grover
Possessed
Movie • 1931
Al Manning
Three Cornered Moon
Movie • 1933
Kenneth Rimplegar
The Last Hurrah
Movie • 1958
Charlie Hennessey
Thunder Over Arizona
Movie • 1956
Stiles
Destry
Movie • 1954
Doc Curtis
The Cross of Lorraine
Movie • 1943
Pierre
Flesh and Fury
Movie • 1952
Jack 'Pop' Richardson
The Green Years
Movie • 1946
Jamie Nigg
Men in White
Movie • 1934
Shorty
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Harper
She Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1954
Joe Wheelen
The Man from Texas
Movie • 1948
Jed
Warpath
Movie • 1951
Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
Wichita
Movie • 1955
Arthur Whiteside
The First Texan
Movie • 1956
Henry Delaney
The Wet Parade
Movie • 1932
Jerry Tyler
Swellhead
Movie • 1935
Terry McCall
X Marks the Spot
Movie • 1931
Ted Lloyd
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie • 1942
Wally Collins
Exiled to Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Ted Young
Night of Terror
Movie • 1933
Tom Hartley
Are You Listening?
Movie • 1932
Larry Barnes
Money Means Nothing
Movie • 1934
Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
Embraceable You
Movie • 1948
Police Lt. Ferria
Headline Shooter
Movie • 1933
Mike
The Nut Farm
Movie • 1935
Willie Barton
O.H.M.S.
Movie • 1937
Jimmy Tracy
Two in the Dark
Movie • 1936
Harry Hilyer
Stagecoach To Fury
Movie • 1956
Judge Lester Farrell
Machine Gun Mama
Movie • 1944
John O'Reilly
Absolute Quiet
Movie • 1936
Jack
Central Park
Movie • 1932
Rick
The Boy from Oklahoma
Movie • 1954
Walter "Wally" Higgins
The Nebraskan
Movie • 1953
'Mac' McBride
Inside the Law
Movie • 1942
Billy
Get That Man
Movie • 1935
Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
Murder by Invitation
Movie • 1941
Bob White
The Great Jesse James Raid
Movie • 1953
Elias Hobbs
Goodbye Again
Movie • 1933
Arthur Westlake
Lover Come Back
Movie • 1946
Tubbs
A Woman's Man
Movie • 1934
Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
Isle Of Destiny
Movie • 1940
Millard Barnes
Swing It, Sailor!
Movie • 1938
Pete Kelly
Dakota Lil
Movie • 1950
Carter
I Hate Women
Movie • 1934
Scoop McGuire
Another Face
Movie • 1935
Joe Haynes, Press Agent
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
"Fingers" Boston
East of Fifth Avenue
Movie • 1933
Vic Howard
Give Us Wings
Movie • 1940
Mr. York
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Lou Dicketts
The Rainmaker
Movie • 1956
Sheriff Howard Thomas
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Movie • 1940
Joe Redmond
Rodeo
Movie • 1952
Barbecue Jones
Scatterbrain
Movie • 1940
Sam Maxwell
My Woman
Movie • 1933
Chick Rollins
Skyscraper Souls
Movie • 1932
Slim
Hypnotized
Movie • 1932
Bill Bogard
Jericho
Movie • 1937
Mike Clancy
Harvey
Movie • 1950
The Taxi Driver
Belle Starr's Daughter
Movie • 1948
Lafe Bailey
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Movie • 1949
'Talky' Carson
Two Girls on Broadway
Movie • 1940
Jed Marlowe
A Son Comes Home
Movie • 1936
Steve
Rendezvous with Annie
Movie • 1946
Al Morgan
Tess of the Storm Country
Movie • 1960
Fred Thorson
The Marines Come Thru
Movie • 1938
Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
The Great John L.
Movie • 1945
McManus
The Big Cage
Movie • 1933
Russ Penny
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Movie • 1951
Sam Parks
A Guy Could Change
Movie • 1946
Bill Conley
Lucy Gallant
Movie • 1955
Gus Basserman
Blood on the Sun
Movie • 1945
Ollie Miller
The Spoilers
Movie • 1955
Flapjack Simms
Roar of the Press
Movie • 1941
Wally Williams
The Maverick Queen
Movie • 1956
Jamie
Married in Hollywood
Movie • 1929
Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
Twilight for the Gods
Movie • 1958
Old Brown
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie • 1934
Self (uncredited)
The Matchmaker
Movie • 1958
Malachi Stack
On Stage Everybody
Movie • 1945
Emmett Rogers
Stardust
Movie • 1938
Peter Jackson
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie • 2008
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Bristle Face
Movie • 1964
Emory Packer
Freaks
Movie • 1932
Phroso
In Spite of Danger
Movie • 1935
Bob Crane
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Movie • 1934
'Curly'
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Movie • 1957
Rebel
Men of the Hour
Movie • 1935
Andy Blane
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Roger Hanover
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Uncle Billy Smith
Studio One
TV • 1948
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Father Knows Best
TV • 1954
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
Climax!
TV • 1954
Bunco Kelly
The Deputy
TV • 1959
Herk Lamson
The Whistler
TV • 1954
Inner Sanctum
TV • 1954
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Lester Tinney
Peter Loves Mary
TV • 1960
Kings Row
TV • 1955
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Harry
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Monty Smith
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Innkeeper
The Deputy
TV • 1959
Marshal Herk Lamson
Climax!
TV • 1954
Sheriff
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Karl Wexdig
Climax!
TV • 1954
Samuel Cramer
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Ed Rawlings
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Emory Packer
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Talker
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Boats
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Eli Zach
The Motorola Television Hour
TV • 1953