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
Known For
The Nut Farm
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Harvey
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Spellbound
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
The Set-Up
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
The Ford Television Theatre
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
Filmography
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Ole Pa
as Emory Packer
as Uncle Billy Smith
as Lester Tinney
as Fred Thorson
as Roger Hanover
as Harry
as Herk Lamson
as Marshal Herk Lamson
as Judge Holloway
as Charlie Hennessey
as Old Brown
as Malachi Stack
as Eli Zach
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
as Judge Lester Farrell
as Stiles
as Albert Dark
as Henry Delaney
as Jamie
as Flapjack Simms
as Dr. Amos Wynn
as Gus Basserman
as Ed Rawlings
as Monty Smith
as Charley O'Leary
as Arthur Whiteside
as Sam Morley
as Doc Curtis
as Emory Packer
as Bunco Kelly
as Sheriff
as Dr. Karl Wexdig
as Samuel Cramer
as Boats
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
as Joe Wheelen
as 'Mac' McBride
as Elias Hobbs
as Talker
as Self
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
as Barbecue Jones
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
as Sam Parks
as Innkeeper
as Fred Dobbs
as The Taxi Driver
as F.R. Duncan
as Scotty Hyslip
as Carter
as 'Talky' Carson
as Gus
as Lafe Bailey
as Police Lt. Ferria
as Andy West
as Sam Grover
as Jed
as The Schemer
as Lou Dicketts
as McGee
as Lt. Cochrane
as Joe
as Al Morgan
as Jamie Nigg
as Tubbs
as Bill Conley
as Hotel masher
as Emmett Rogers
as McManus
as Ollie Miller
as John O'Reilly
as Miller
as Pierre
as Jeff Carter
as Fred Saunders
as Babe Hanson
as Wally Collins
as Billy
as Spats Hunter
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
as Bob White
as Wally Williams
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
as Mr. York
as Babe Jenson
as Sam Maxwell
as Joe Redmond
as Jed Marlowe
as Millard Barnes
as Frankie Rogers
as Peter Jackson
as Pete Kelly
as Ted Young
as Mike Clancy
as Jimmy Tracy
as Steve
as Jimmy Kelly
as Jack
as Harry Hilyer
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
as Harper
as "Fingers" Boston
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
as Frankie McPhillip
as Andy Blane
as Terry McCall
as Joe Luvalle
as Willie Barton
as Bob Crane
as Healy
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
as 'Curly'
as Self (uncredited)
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
as Scoop McGuire
as Shorty
as Morelli
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
as Vic Howard
as Chick Rollins
as Arthur Westlake
as Kenneth Rimplegar
as Mike
as Russ Penny
as Tom Hartley
as Martin West
as Bill Bogard
as Rick
as Slim
as Jerry Tyler
as Larry Barnes
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
as Phroso
as Ted Lloyd
as Al Manning
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)