Wallace Ford
Age: N/A | From: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Samuel Jones Grundy , Wally Ford , Samuel Grundy Jones
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 92
TV Involvements: 9
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Climax!
(1954) Samuel Cramer
This Is Your Life
(1952) Self
The 20th Century Fox Hour
(1955) Monty Smith
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
(1960) Harry
The Great Adventure
(1963) Uncle Billy Smith
The Deputy
(1959) Herk Lamson
Freaks
(1932) Phroso
Warlock
(1959) Judge HollowayActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1965 | Ole Pa | |
| 1964 | Emory Packer | |
| 1963 | Uncle Billy Smith | |
| Lester Tinney | ||
| 1960 | Fred Thorson | |
| N/A | ||
| Roger Hanover | ||
| Harry | ||
| 1959 | Herk Lamson | |
| Judge Holloway | ||
| 1958 | Charlie Hennessey | |
| N/A | ||
| Old Brown | ||
| Malachi Stack | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| 1956 | Judge Lester Farrell | |
| Sheriff Howard Thomas | ||
| Stiles | ||
| Albert Dark | ||
| Henry Delaney | ||
| Jamie | ||
| 1955 | Flapjack Simms | |
| Dr. Amos Wynn | ||
| Gus Basserman | ||
| Ed Rawlings | ||
| Monty Smith | ||
| N/A | ||
| Charley O'Leary | ||
| Arthur Whiteside | ||
| 1954 | Sam Morley | |
| Doc Curtis | ||
| Bunco Kelly | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| Dr. Karl Wexdig | ||
| Samuel Cramer | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Walter "Wally" Higgins | ||
| Joe Wheelen | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | 'Mac' McBride | |
| Elias Hobbs | ||
| 1952 | Self | |
| Jack 'Pop' Richardson | ||
| Barbecue Jones | ||
| 1951 | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | |
| Sam Parks | ||
| N/A | ||
| Innkeeper | ||
| Fred Dobbs | ||
| 1950 | The Taxi Driver | |
| F.R. Duncan | ||
| Scotty Hyslip | ||
| Carter | ||
| 1949 | 'Talky' Carson | |
| Gus | ||
| 1948 | Lafe Bailey | |
| N/A | ||
| Police Lt. Ferria | ||
| Andy West | ||
| Sam Grover | ||
| Jed | ||
| 1947 | The Schemer | |
| Lou Dicketts | ||
| McGee | ||
| 1946 | Lt. Cochrane | |
| Joe | ||
| Al Morgan | ||
| Jamie Nigg | ||
| Tubbs | ||
| Bill Conley | ||
| 1945 | Hotel masher | |
| Emmett Rogers | ||
| McManus | ||
| Ollie Miller | ||
| 1944 | John O'Reilly | |
| Miller | ||
| 1943 | Pierre | |
| Jeff Carter | ||
| Fred Saunders | ||
| 1942 | Babe Hanson | |
| Wally Collins | ||
| Billy | ||
| Spats Hunter | ||
| 1941 | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | |
| Bob White | ||
| Wally Williams | ||
| Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | ||
| 1940 | Mr. York | |
| Babe Jenson | ||
| Sam Maxwell | ||
| Joe Redmond | ||
| Jed Marlowe | ||
| Millard Barnes | ||
| 1939 | Frankie Rogers | |
| 1938 | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | |
| Peter Jackson | ||
| Pete Kelly | ||
| 1937 | Ted Young | |
| Mike Clancy | ||
| Jimmy Tracy | ||
| 1936 | Jimmy Kelly | |
| Jack | ||
| Harry Hilyer | ||
| 1935 | Joe Haynes, Press Agent | |
| Harper | ||
| "Fingers" Boston | ||
| Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | ||
| Frankie McPhillip | ||
| Terry McCall | ||
| Joe Luvalle | ||
| Willie Barton | ||
| Bob Crane | ||
| Healy | ||
| Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | ||
| 1934 | 'Curly' | |
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | ||
| Scoop McGuire | ||
| Shorty | ||
| Morelli | ||
| Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | ||
| 1933 | Vic Howard | |
| Chick Rollins | ||
| Arthur Westlake | ||
| Kenneth Rimplegar | ||
| Mike | ||
| Russ Penny | ||
| Tom Hartley | ||
| Martin West | ||
| 1932 | Bill Bogard | |
| Rick | ||
| Slim | ||
| Jerry Tyler | ||
| Larry Barnes | ||
| Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | ||
| Phroso | ||
| 1931 | Ted Lloyd | |
| Al Manning | ||
| 1929 | Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
