Wallace Ford
Acting
🎂 1898-02-11
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.
Cast credits(148)
Roger Hanover
1960
Bunco Kelly
1954
Sheriff
1954
Dr. Karl Wexdig
1954
Samuel Cramer
1954
1948
1954
Monty Smith
1955
Herk Lamson
1959
Marshal Herk Lamson
1959
1958
Eli Zach
1957
Boats
1954
Talker
1952
Harry
1960
Ed Rawlings
1955
Self
1952
Uncle Billy Smith
1963
1954
Malachi Stack
1958
Phroso
1932
1954
Lester Tinney
1963
Emory Packer
1954
Hotel masher
1945
Fred Saunders
1943
The Taxi Driver
1950
Sheriff Howard Thomas
1956
Miller
1944
Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
1951
Charlie Hennessey
1958
Judge Holloway
1959
Doc Curtis
1954
The Schemer
1947
Frankie McPhillip
1935
Jamie
1956
Ole Pa
1965
1960
Scotty Hyslip
1950
Judge Lester Farrell
1956
Self (archive footage)
1987
Barbecue Jones
1952
Henry Delaney
1956
Albert Dark
1956
Gus
1949
Dr. Amos Wynn
1955
Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
1941
Stiles
1956
Joe Redmond
1940
Charley O'Leary
1955
Jamie Nigg
1946
Steve
1936
1951
Innkeeper
1951
Morelli
1934
Jack 'Pop' Richardson
1952
Lt. Cochrane
1946
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
2008
F.R. Duncan
1950
Fred Thorson
1960
Bill Conley
1946
Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
1932
Pierre
1943
Jed Marlowe
1940
Babe Jenson
1940
Andy West
1948
Spats Hunter
1942
Wally Collins
1942
Kenneth Rimplegar
1933
Flapjack Simms
1955
Jack
1936
Emory Packer
1964
Carter
1950
McGee
1946
Arthur Whiteside
1955
Babe Hanson
1942
Old Brown
1958
Frankie Rogers
1939
Lou Dicketts
1947
Self (uncredited)
1934
Martin West
1933
Tubbs
1946
"Fingers" Boston
1935
Gus Basserman
1955
Walter "Wally" Higgins
1954
Joe
1946
Joe Wheelen
1954
Rick
1932
Sam Parks
1951
Ted Lloyd
1931
Ted Young
1937
Bob White
1941
Ollie Miller
1945
Harry Hilyer
1936
Slim
1932
Jerry Tyler
1932
Fred Dobbs
1951
Mike
1933
Larry Barnes
1932
Sam Grover
1948
1955
Sam Morley
1954
1953
Lafe Bailey
1948
Al Morgan
1946
Vic Howard
1933
Harper
1935
Millard Barnes
1940
Emmett Rogers
1945
Healy
1935
John O'Reilly
1944
Jimmy Kelly
1936
Shorty
1934
McManus
1945
'Mac' McBride
1953
Al Manning
1931
Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
1935
Jeff Carter
1943
Jed
1948
Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
1938
Chick Rollins
1933
Police Lt. Ferria
1948
Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
1934
Wally Williams
1941
Sam Maxwell
1940
Mr. York
1940
Russ Penny
1933
Billy
1942
Peter Jackson
1938
Bill Bogard
1932
Arthur Westlake
1933
Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
1941
Joe Haynes, Press Agent
1935
Mike Clancy
1937
Jimmy Tracy
1937
Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
1934
Elias Hobbs
1953
'Curly'
1934
Tom Hartley
1933
Pete Kelly
1938
Willie Barton
1935
Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
1929
Terry McCall
1935
Joe Luvalle
1935
Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
1935
Scoop McGuire
1934
Bob Crane
1935
'Talky' Carson
1949