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)
(1988)
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)
The Matchmaker
as Malachi Stack
(1958)
Twilight for the Gods
as Old Brown
(1956)
The Rainmaker
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
(1956)
The First Texan
as Henry Delaney
(1956)
Johnny Concho
as Albert Dark
(1956)
Thunder Over Arizona
as Stiles
(1956)
Stagecoach To Fury
as Judge Lester Farrell
(1956)
The Maverick Queen
as Jamie
(1955)
The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary
(1955)
Wichita
as Arthur Whiteside
(1955)
A Lawless Street
as Dr. Amos Wynn
(1955)
The Spoilers
as Flapjack Simms
(1955)
Lucy Gallant
as Gus Basserman
(1954)
Destry
as Doc Curtis
(1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
(1954)
She Couldn't Say No
as Joe Wheelen
(1954)
3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley
(1953)
The Great Jesse James Raid
as Elias Hobbs
(1953)
The Nebraskan
as 'Mac' McBride
(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
(1951)
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
as Sam Parks
(1950)
Harvey
as The Taxi Driver
(1950)
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip
(1950)
The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan
(1950)
Dakota Lil
as Carter
(1949)
The Set-Up
as Gus
(1949)
Red Stallion In The Rockies
as 'Talky' Carson
(1948)
Coroner Creek
as Andy West
(1948)
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Lafe Bailey
(1948)
The Man from Texas
as Jed
(1948)
Shed No Tears
as Sam Grover
(1948)
Embraceable You
as Police Lt. Ferria
(1947)
T-Men
as The Schemer
(1947)
Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts
(1946)
Dead Reckoning
as McGee
(1946)
Black Angel
as Joe
(1946)
Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane
(1946)
Rendezvous with Annie
as Al Morgan
(1946)
The Green Years
as Jamie Nigg
(1946)
Lover Come Back
as Tubbs
(1946)
A Guy Could Change
as Bill Conley
(1945)
Spellbound
as Hotel masher
(1945)
Blood on the Sun
as Ollie Miller
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Emmett Rogers
(1945)
The Great John L.
as McManus
(1944)
Secret Command
as Miller
(1944)
Machine Gun Mama
as John O'Reilly
(1943)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Fred Saunders
(1943)
The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre
(1943)
The Ape Man
as Jeff Carter
(1942)
The Mummy's Tomb
as Babe Hanson
(1942)
All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter
(1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Wally Collins
(1942)
Inside the Law
as Billy
(1941)
Blues in the Night
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
(1941)
A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
(1941)
Murder by Invitation
as Bob White
(1941)
Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams
(1940)
The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson
(1940)
Two Girls on Broadway
as Jed Marlowe
(1940)
Isle Of Destiny
as Millard Barnes
(1940)
Scatterbrain
as Sam Maxwell
(1940)
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
as Joe Redmond
(1940)
Give Us Wings
as Mr. York
(1939)
Back Door to Heaven
as Frankie Rogers
(1938)
Stardust
as Peter Jackson
(1938)
Swing It, Sailor!
as Pete Kelly
(1938)
The Marines Come Thru
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
(1937)
O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy
(1937)
Exiled to Shanghai
as Ted Young
(1937)
Jericho
as Mike Clancy
(1936)
Two in the Dark
as Harry Hilyer
(1936)
Absolute Quiet
as Jack
(1936)
The Rogues' Tavern
as Jimmy Kelly
(1936)
A Son Comes Home
as Steve
(1935)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
(1935)
The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip
(1935)
She Couldn't Take It
as "Fingers" Boston
(1935)
The Whole Town's Talking
as Healy
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Harper
(1935)
The Nut Farm
as Willie Barton
(1935)
Another Face
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
(1935)
In Spite of Danger
as Bob Crane
(1935)
One Frightened Night
as Joe Luvalle
(1935)
Get That Man
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
(1935)
Swellhead
as Terry McCall
(1934)
The Lost Patrol
as Morelli
(1934)
Men in White
as Shorty
(1934)
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as 'Curly'
(1934)
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self (uncredited)
(1934)
A Woman's Man
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
(1934)
Money Means Nothing
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
(1934)
I Hate Women
as Scoop McGuire
(1933)
Night of Terror
as Tom Hartley
(1933)
Headline Shooter
as Mike
(1933)
Goodbye Again
as Arthur Westlake
(1933)
Employees' Entrance
as Martin West
(1933)
My Woman
as Chick Rollins
(1933)
The Big Cage
as Russ Penny
(1933)
Three-Cornered Moon
as Kenneth Rimplegar
(1933)
East of Fifth Avenue
as Vic Howard
(1932)
Freaks
as Phroso
(1932)
Skyscraper Souls
as Slim
(1932)
The Beast of the City
as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Jerry Tyler
(1932)
Central Park
as Rick
(1932)
Hypnotized
as Bill Bogard
(1932)
Are You Listening?
as Larry Barnes
(1931)
Possessed
as Al Manning
(1931)
X Marks the Spot
as Ted Lloyd
(1929)
Married in Hollywood
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)