Wallace Ford

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK , 1898-02-11

Died: 1966-06-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	Married in Hollywood	Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)	0
2	1931	Possessed	Al Manning	71
3	1931	X Marks the Spot	Ted Lloyd	60
4	1932	Freaks	Phroso	78
5	1932	The Beast of the City	Det. Ed Fitzpatrick	59
6	1932	Are You Listening?	Larry Barnes	50
7	1932	The Wet Parade	Jerry Tyler	58
8	1932	Skyscraper Souls	Slim	56
9	1932	Central Park	Rick	52
10	1932	Hypnotized	Bill Bogard	0
11	1933	Employees' Entrance	Martin West	63
12	1933	Night of Terror	Tom Hartley	55
13	1933	The Big Cage	Russ Penny	60
14	1933	Headline Shooter	Mike	58
15	1933	Three-Cornered Moon	Kenneth Rimplegar	52
16	1933	Goodbye Again	Arthur Westlake	50
17	1933	My Woman	Chick Rollins	34
18	1933	East of Fifth Avenue	Vic Howard	60
19	1934	A Woman's Man	Joe Flynn - Prizefighter	40
20	1934	The Lost Patrol	Morelli	64
21	1934	Men in White	Shorty	60
22	1934	I Hate Women	Scoop McGuire	0
23	1934	Money Means Nothing	Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay	40
24	1934	The Hollywood Gad-About	Self (uncredited)	40
25	1934	The Man Who Reclaimed His Head	'Curly'	60
26	1935	The Mysterious Mr. Wong	Jason H. 'Jay' Barton	42
27	1935	The Whole Town's Talking	Healy	68
28	1935	In Spite of Danger	Bob Crane	10
29	1935	The Nut Farm	Willie Barton	80
30	1935	One Frightened Night	Joe Luvalle	55
31	1935	Swellhead	Terry McCall	0
32	1935	The Informer	Frankie McPhillip	67
33	1935	Get That Man	Jack Kirkland / John Prescott	37
34	1935	She Couldn't Take It	"Fingers" Boston	45
35	1935	Mary Burns, Fugitive	Harper	0
36	1935	Another Face	Joe Haynes, Press Agent	42
37	1936	Two in the Dark	Harry Hilyer	59
38	1936	Absolute Quiet	Jack	55
39	1936	The Rogues' Tavern	Jimmy Kelly	58
40	1936	A Son Comes Home	Steve	10
41	1937	O.H.M.S.	Jimmy Tracy	50
42	1937	Jericho	Mike Clancy	58
43	1937	Exiled to Shanghai	Ted Young	49
44	1938	Swing It, Sailor!	Pete Kelly	50
45	1938	Stardust	Peter Jackson	40
46	1938	The Marines Come Thru	Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins	0
47	1939	Back Door to Heaven	Frankie Rogers	50
48	1940	Isle Of Destiny	Millard Barnes	50
49	1940	Two Girls on Broadway	Jed Marlowe	68
50	1940	Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!	Joe Redmond	0
51	1940	Scatterbrain	Sam Maxwell	0
52	1940	The Mummy's Hand	Babe Jenson	57
53	1940	Give Us Wings	Mr. York	60
54	1941	A Man Betrayed	Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)	55
55	1941	Roar of the Press	Wally Williams	56
56	1941	Murder by Invitation	Bob White	56
57	1941	Blues in the Night	Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)	62
58	1942	All Through the Night	Spats Hunter	70
59	1942	Inside the Law	Billy	50
60	1942	Scattergood Survives a Murder	Wally Collins	45
61	1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Babe Hanson	57
62	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Fred Saunders	75
63	1943	The Ape Man	Jeff Carter	42
64	1943	The Cross of Lorraine	Pierre	62
65	1944	Secret Command	Miller	68
66	1944	Machine Gun Mama	John O'Reilly	38
67	1945	Blood on the Sun	Ollie Miller	58
68	1945	The Great John L.	McManus	50
69	1945	On Stage Everybody	Emmett Rogers	0
70	1945	Spellbound	Hotel masher	74
71	1946	A Guy Could Change	Bill Conley	0
72	1946	Lover Come Back	Tubbs	62
73	1946	The Green Years	Jamie Nigg	65
74	1946	Rendezvous with Annie	Al Morgan	60
75	1946	Black Angel	Joe	60
76	1946	Crack-Up	Lt. Cochrane	56
77	1946	Dead Reckoning	McGee	67
78	1947	Magic Town	Lou Dicketts	67
79	1947	T-Men	The Schemer	68
80	1948	The Man from Texas	Jed	60
81	1948	Shed No Tears	Sam Grover	50
82	1948	Coroner Creek	Andy West	61
83	1948	Embraceable You	Police Lt. Ferria	60
84	1948	Belle Starr's Daughter	Lafe Bailey	44
85	1949	The Set-Up	Gus	73
86	1949	Red Stallion In The Rockies	'Talky' Carson	0
87	1950	Dakota Lil	Carter	50
88	1950	The Furies	Scotty Hyslip	71
89	1950	The Breaking Point	F.R. Duncan	71
90	1950	Harvey	The Taxi Driver	77
91	1951	He Ran All the Way	Fred Dobbs	72
92	1951	Painting The Clouds With Sunshine	Sam Parks	45
93	1951	Warpath	Pvt. 'Irish' Potts	58
94	1952	Rodeo	Barbecue Jones	0
95	1952	Flesh and Fury	Jack 'Pop' Richardson	61
96	1953	The Great Jesse James Raid	Elias Hobbs	47
97	1953	The Nebraskan	'Mac' McBride	30
98	1954	She Couldn't Say No	Joe Wheelen	56
99	1954	The Boy from Oklahoma	Walter "Wally" Higgins	52
100	1954	Destry	Doc Curtis	61
101	1954	3 Ring Circus	Sam Morley	55
102	1955	Wichita	Arthur Whiteside	63
103	1955	The Man from Laramie	Charley O'Leary	72
104	1955	Lucy Gallant	Gus Basserman	70
105	1955	A Lawless Street	Dr. Amos Wynn	54
106	1955	The Spoilers	Flapjack Simms	48
107	1956	The Maverick Queen	Jamie	52
108	1956	The First Texan	Henry Delaney	61
109	1956	Johnny Concho	Albert Dark	37
110	1956	Thunder Over Arizona	Stiles	60
111	1956	Stagecoach To Fury	Judge Lester Farrell	50
112	1956	The Rainmaker	Sheriff Howard Thomas	67
113	1958	The Matchmaker	Malachi Stack	69
114	1958	Twilight for the Gods	Old Brown	42
115	1958	The Last Hurrah	Charlie Hennessey	71
116	1959	Warlock	Judge Holloway	67
117	1960	Tess of the Storm Country	Fred Thorson	0
118	1964	Bristle Face	Emory Packer	0
119	1965	A Patch of Blue	Ole Pa	76
120	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
121	2008	Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)	64

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One		47
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		70
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Innkeeper	70
4	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	66
5	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Talker	70
6	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
7	1954	The Whistler		0
8	1954	Studio 57	Boats	0
9	1954	Father Knows Best		66
10	1954	Climax!	Bunco Kelly	30
11	1954	Climax!	Sheriff	30
12	1954	Climax!	Dr. Karl Wexdig	30
13	1954	Climax!	Samuel Cramer	30
14	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Emory Packer	76
15	1955	Kings Row		0
16	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Monty Smith	52
17	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Ed Rawlings	65
18	1957	Trackdown		64
19	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		53
20	1959	The Deputy	Herk Lamson	62
21	1959	The Deputy	Marshal Herk Lamson	62
22	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Harry	62
23	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Roger Hanover	76
24	1960	Peter Loves Mary		50
25	1963	Vacation Playhouse	Lester Tinney	0
26	1963	The Great Adventure	Uncle Billy Smith	0