Wallace Ford
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-11
Day of Death
1966-06-11 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Wallace Ford
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.
Acting
(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)
A Patch of Blue
as Ole Pa
(1964)
Bristle Face
as Emory Packer
(1960)
Tess of the Storm Country
as Fred Thorson
(1959)
Warlock
as Judge Holloway
(1958)
The Last Hurrah
as Charlie Hennessey
(1958)
Twilight for the Gods
as Old Brown
(1958)
The Matchmaker
as Malachi Stack
(1957)
(1956)
The Rainmaker
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
(1956)
The First Texan
as Henry Delaney
(1956)
The Maverick Queen
as Jamie
(1956)
Johnny Concho
as Albert Dark
(1956)
Thunder Over Arizona
as Stiles
(1956)
Stagecoach To Fury
as Judge Lester Farrell
(1955)
A Lawless Street
as Dr. Amos Wynn
(1955)
Wichita
as Arthur Whiteside
(1955)
Lucy Gallant
as Gus Basserman
(1955)
The Spoilers
as Flapjack Simms
(1955)
The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary
(1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
(1954)
Destry
as Doc Curtis
(1954)
3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley
(1954)
She Couldn't Say No
as Joe Wheelen
(1953)
The Great Jesse James Raid
as Elias Hobbs
(1953)
The Nebraskan
as 'Mac' McBride
(1952)
Rodeo
as Barbecue Jones
(1952)
Flesh and Fury
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
(1951)
Warpath
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
(1951)
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
as Sam Parks
(1951)
He Ran All the Way
as Fred Dobbs
(1950)
The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan
(1950)
Harvey
as The Taxi Driver
(1950)
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip
(1950)
Dakota Lil
as Carter
(1949)
The Set-Up
as Gus
(1949)
Red Stallion In The Rockies
as 'Talky' Carson
(1948)
Embraceable You
as Police Lt. Ferria
(1948)
The Man from Texas
as Jed
(1948)
Coroner Creek
as Andy West
(1948)
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Lafe Bailey
(1948)
Shed No Tears
as Sam Grover
(1947)
T-Men
as The Schemer
(1947)
Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts
(1946)
Dead Reckoning
as McGee
(1946)
Black Angel
as Joe
(1946)
A Guy Could Change
as Bill Conley
(1946)
Lover Come Back
as Tubbs
(1946)
Rendezvous with Annie
as Al Morgan
(1946)
The Green Years
as Jamie Nigg
(1946)
Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Emmett Rogers
(1945)
Spellbound
as Hotel masher
(1945)
The Great John L.
as McManus
(1945)
Blood on the Sun
as Ollie Miller
(1944)
Secret Command
as Miller
(1944)
Machine Gun Mama
as John O'Reilly
(1943)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Fred Saunders
(1943)
The Ape Man
as Jeff Carter
(1943)
The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre
(1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Wally Collins
(1942)
All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter
(1942)
The Mummy's Tomb
as Babe Hanson
(1942)
Inside the Law
as Billy
(1941)
Murder by Invitation
as Bob White
(1941)
A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
(1941)
Blues in the Night
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
(1941)
Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams
(1940)
Isle Of Destiny
as Millard Barnes
(1940)
The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson
(1940)
Give Us Wings
as Mr. York
(1940)
Scatterbrain
as Sam Maxwell
(1940)
Two Girls on Broadway
as Jed Marlowe
(1940)
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
as Joe Redmond
(1939)
Back Door to Heaven
as Frankie Rogers
(1938)
Swing It, Sailor!
as Pete Kelly
(1938)
The Marines Come Thru
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
(1938)
Stardust
as Peter Jackson
(1937)
Jericho
as Mike Clancy
(1937)
Exiled to Shanghai
as Ted Young
(1937)
O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy
(1936)
A Son Comes Home
as Steve
(1936)
Absolute Quiet
as Jack
(1936)
Two in the Dark
as Harry Hilyer
(1936)
The Rogues' Tavern
as Jimmy Kelly
(1935)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
(1935)
Get That Man
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
(1935)
The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Harper
(1935)
Another Face
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
(1935)
In Spite of Danger
as Bob Crane
(1935)
Swellhead
as Terry McCall
(1935)
The Whole Town's Talking
as Healy
(1935)
The Nut Farm
as Willie Barton
(1935)
One Frightened Night
as Joe Luvalle
(1935)
She Couldn't Take It
as "Fingers" Boston
(1934)
A Woman's Man
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
(1934)
I Hate Women
as Scoop McGuire
(1934)
Men in White
as Shorty
(1934)
The Lost Patrol
as Morelli
(1934)
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self (uncredited)
(1934)
Money Means Nothing
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
(1934)
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as 'Curly'
(1933)
Night of Terror
as Tom Hartley
(1933)
East of Fifth Avenue
as Vic Howard
(1933)
Goodbye Again
as Arthur Westlake
(1933)
Three Cornered Moon
as Kenneth Rimplegar
(1933)
Employees' Entrance
as Martin West
(1933)
The Big Cage
as Russ Penny
(1933)
Headline Shooter
as Mike
(1933)
My Woman
as Chick Rollins
(1932)
Freaks
as Phroso
(1932)
Skyscraper Souls
as Slim
(1932)
The Beast of the City
as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
(1932)
Hypnotized
as Bill Bogard
(1932)
Central Park
as Rick
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Jerry Tyler
(1932)
Are You Listening?
as Larry Barnes
(1931)
X Marks the Spot
as Ted Lloyd
(1931)
Possessed
as Al Manning
(1929)
Married in Hollywood
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)