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