Portrait of Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Acting

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.

Born: February 11, 1898

Place of Birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Filmography

2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)

1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1965
1964
Bristle Face

as Emory Packer

1963
The Great Adventure

as Uncle Billy Smith

1963
Vacation Playhouse

as Lester Tinney

1960
1960
The Andy Griffith Show

as Roger Hanover

1959
The Deputy

as Herk Lamson

1959
The Deputy

as Marshal Herk Lamson

1959
Warlock

as Judge Holloway

1958
The Last Hurrah

as Charlie Hennessey

1958
1958
The Matchmaker

as Malachi Stack

1957
Trackdown

as Eli Zach

1956
The Rainmaker

as Sheriff Howard Thomas

1956
Stagecoach To Fury

as Judge Lester Farrell

1956
Johnny Concho

as Albert Dark

1956
The First Texan

as Henry Delaney

1956
1955
The Spoilers

as Flapjack Simms

1955
A Lawless Street

as Dr. Amos Wynn

1955
Lucy Gallant

as Gus Basserman

1955
1955
1955
The Man from Laramie

as Charley O'Leary

1955
Wichita

as Arthur Whiteside

1954
3 Ring Circus

as Sam Morley

1954
Destry

as Doc Curtis

1954
Climax!

as Bunco Kelly

1954
Climax!

as Sheriff

1954
Climax!

as Dr. Karl Wexdig

1954
Climax!

as Samuel Cramer

1954
Studio 57

as Boats

1954
The Boy from Oklahoma

as Walter "Wally" Higgins

1954
She Couldn't Say No

as Joe Wheelen

1953
The Nebraskan

as 'Mac' McBride

1953
1952
Flesh and Fury

as Jack 'Pop' Richardson

1952
Rodeo

as Barbecue Jones

1951
Warpath

as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts

1951
He Ran All the Way

as Fred Dobbs

1950
Harvey

as The Taxi Driver

1950
The Breaking Point

as F.R. Duncan

1950
The Furies

as Scotty Hyslip

1950
Dakota Lil

as Carter

1949
1949
1948
1948
Embraceable You

as Police Lt. Ferria

1948
Coroner Creek

as Andy West

1948
Shed No Tears

as Sam Grover

1947
T-Men

as The Schemer

1947
Magic Town

as Lou Dicketts

1946
1946
Crack-Up

as Lt. Cochrane

1946
1946
1946
The Green Years

as Jamie Nigg

1946
1946
A Guy Could Change

as Bill Conley

1945
Spellbound

as Hotel masher

1945
On Stage Everybody

as Emmett Rogers

1945
1945
Blood on the Sun

as Ollie Miller

1944
Machine Gun Mama

as John O'Reilly

1944
1943
The Ape Man

as Jeff Carter

1943
Shadow of a Doubt

as Fred Saunders

1942
The Mummy's Tomb

as Babe Hanson

1942
1942
1942
All Through the Night

as Spats Hunter

1941
Blues in the Night

as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)

1941
1941
Roar of the Press

as Wally Williams

1941
A Man Betrayed

as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)

1940
Give Us Wings

as Mr. York

1940
The Mummy's Hand

as Babe Jenson

1940
Scatterbrain

as Sam Maxwell

1940
1940
Two Girls on Broadway

as Jed Marlowe

1940
Isle Of Destiny

as Millard Barnes

1939
Back Door to Heaven

as Frankie Rogers

1938
Stardust

as Peter Jackson

1938
Swing It, Sailor!

as Pete Kelly

1937
Exiled to Shanghai

as Ted Young

1937
Jericho

as Mike Clancy

1937
O.H.M.S.

as Jimmy Tracy

1936
1936
The Rogues' Tavern

as Jimmy Kelly

1936
1936
Two in the Dark

as Harry Hilyer

1935
Another Face

as Joe Haynes, Press Agent

1935
She Couldn't Take It

as "Fingers" Boston

1935
Get That Man

as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott

1935
The Informer

as Frankie McPhillip

1935
Swellhead

as Terry McCall

1935
One Frightened Night

as Joe Luvalle

1935
The Nut Farm

as Willie Barton

1935
In Spite of Danger

as Bob Crane

1935
The Mysterious Mr. Wong

as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton

1934
The Hollywood Gad-About

as Self (uncredited)

1934
Money Means Nothing

as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay

1934
I Hate Women

as Scoop McGuire

1934
Men in White

as Shorty

1934
The Lost Patrol

as Morelli

1934
A Woman's Man

as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter

1933
1933
My Woman

as Chick Rollins

1933
Goodbye Again

as Arthur Westlake

1933
Three Cornered Moon

as Kenneth Rimplegar

1933
1933
The Big Cage

as Russ Penny

1933
Night of Terror

as Tom Hartley

1933
Employees' Entrance

as Martin West

1932
Hypnotized

as Bill Bogard

1932
1932
1932
The Wet Parade

as Jerry Tyler

1932
Are You Listening?

as Larry Barnes

1932
The Beast of the City

as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick

1932
Freaks

as Phroso

1931
X Marks the Spot

as Ted Lloyd

1931
Possessed

as Al Manning

1929
Married in Hollywood

as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)