People
Wallace Ford
- Name: Wallace Ford
- Birthday: 1898-02-11
- Also known as: Samuel Jones Grundy,Wally Ford,Samuel Grundy Jones
- Place of birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Popularity: 0.8781
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
| James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage) | 1987-03-13 |
| A Patch of Blue as Ole Pa | 1965-12-10 |
| Bristle Face as Emory Packer | 1964-01-26 |
| Tess of the Storm Country as Fred Thorson | 1960-12-08 |
| Warlock as Judge Holloway | 1959-05-15 |
| The Last Hurrah as Charlie Hennessey | 1958-12-31 |
| Twilight for the Gods as Old Brown | 1958-08-04 |
| The Matchmaker as Malachi Stack | 1958-07-23 |
| Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses as Rebel | 1957-01-03 |
| Stagecoach To Fury as Judge Lester Farrell | 1956-12-13 |
| The Rainmaker as Sheriff Howard Thomas | 1956-12-13 |
| Thunder Over Arizona as Stiles | 1956-08-04 |
| Johnny Concho as Albert Dark | 1956-07-01 |
| The First Texan as Henry Delaney | 1956-06-29 |
| The Maverick Queen as Jamie | 1956-05-03 |
| The Spoilers as Flapjack Simms | 1955-12-23 |
| A Lawless Street as Dr. Amos Wynn | 1955-11-15 |
| Lucy Gallant as Gus Basserman | 1955-10-20 |
| The Man from Laramie as Charley O'Leary | 1955-08-19 |
| Wichita as Arthur Whiteside | 1955-07-03 |
| 3 Ring Circus as Sam Morley | 1954-12-22 |
| Destry as Doc Curtis | 1954-12-01 |
| The Boy from Oklahoma as Walter "Wally" Higgins | 1954-02-27 |
| She Couldn't Say No as Joe Wheelen | 1954-02-15 |
| The Nebraskan as 'Mac' McBride | 1953-12-02 |
| The Great Jesse James Raid as Elias Hobbs | 1953-07-17 |
| Flesh and Fury as Jack 'Pop' Richardson | 1952-06-26 |
| Rodeo as Barbecue Jones | 1952-03-09 |
| Warpath as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | 1951-11-22 |
| Painting the Clouds with Sunshine as Sam Parks | 1951-10-10 |
| He Ran All the Way as Fred Dobbs | 1951-06-20 |
| Harvey as The Taxi Driver | 1950-12-04 |
| The Breaking Point as F.R. Duncan | 1950-10-06 |
| The Furies as Scotty Hyslip | 1950-07-22 |
| Dakota Lil as Carter | 1950-02-17 |
| Red Stallion In The Rockies as 'Talky' Carson | 1949-05-02 |
| The Set-Up as Gus | 1949-03-29 |
| Belle Starr's Daughter as Lafe Bailey | 1948-11-13 |
| Embraceable You as Police Lt. Ferria | 1948-08-21 |
| Coroner Creek as Andy West | 1948-07-01 |
| Shed No Tears as Sam Grover | 1948-06-09 |
| The Man from Texas as Jed | 1948-03-06 |
| T-Men as The Schemer | 1947-12-15 |
| Magic Town as Lou Dicketts | 1947-10-07 |
| Dead Reckoning as McGee | 1946-12-31 |
| Crack-Up as Lt. Cochrane | 1946-09-06 |
| Black Angel as Joe | 1946-08-02 |
| Rendezvous with Annie as Al Morgan | 1946-07-22 |
| The Green Years as Jamie Nigg | 1946-07-04 |
| Lover Come Back as Tubbs | 1946-06-21 |
| A Guy Could Change as Bill Conley | 1946-01-27 |
| Spellbound as Hotel masher | 1945-11-08 |
| On Stage Everybody as Emmett Rogers | 1945-07-13 |
| The Great John L. as McManus | 1945-05-25 |
| Blood on the Sun as Ollie Miller | 1945-04-26 |
| Machine Gun Mama as John O'Reilly | 1944-08-18 |
| Secret Command as Miller | 1944-07-30 |
| The Cross of Lorraine as Pierre | 1943-11-12 |
| The Ape Man as Jeff Carter | 1943-03-05 |
| Shadow of a Doubt as Fred Saunders | 1943-01-12 |
| The Mummy's Tomb as Babe Hanson | 1942-10-23 |
| Scattergood Survives a Murder as Wally Collins | 1942-10-01 |
| Inside the Law as Billy | 1942-05-08 |
| All Through the Night as Spats Hunter | 1942-01-10 |
| Blues in the Night as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | 1941-11-15 |
| Murder by Invitation as Bob White | 1941-06-30 |
| Roar of the Press as Wally Williams | 1941-04-17 |
| A Man Betrayed as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | 1941-03-07 |
| Give Us Wings as Mr. York | 1940-12-20 |
| The Mummy's Hand as Babe Jenson | 1940-09-20 |
| Scatterbrain as Sam Maxwell | 1940-07-20 |
| Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! as Joe Redmond | 1940-06-07 |
| Two Girls on Broadway as Jed Marlowe | 1940-04-19 |
| Isle Of Destiny as Millard Barnes | 1940-03-08 |
| Back Door to Heaven as Frankie Rogers | 1939-04-19 |
| The Marines Come Thru as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | 1938-08-04 |
| Stardust as Peter Jackson | 1938-03-25 |
| Swing It, Sailor! as Pete Kelly | 1938-02-04 |
| Exiled to Shanghai as Ted Young | 1937-12-20 |
| Jericho as Mike Clancy | 1937-08-23 |
| O.H.M.S. as Jimmy Tracy | 1937-01-01 |
| A Son Comes Home as Steve | 1936-07-31 |
| The Rogues' Tavern as Jimmy Kelly | 1936-06-04 |
| Absolute Quiet as Jack | 1936-04-24 |
| Two in the Dark as Harry Hilyer | 1936-01-10 |
| Another Face as Joe Haynes, Press Agent | 1935-12-20 |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive as Harper | 1935-11-15 |
| She Couldn't Take It as "Fingers" Boston | 1935-10-08 |
| Get That Man as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | 1935-07-10 |
| The Informer as Frankie McPhillip | 1935-05-09 |
| Men of the Hour as Andy Blane | 1935-05-05 |
| Swellhead as Terry McCall | 1935-05-04 |
| One Frightened Night as Joe Luvalle | 1935-05-01 |
| The Nut Farm as Willie Barton | 1935-03-24 |
| In Spite of Danger as Bob Crane | 1935-03-08 |
| The Whole Town's Talking as Healy | 1935-02-22 |
| The Mysterious Mr. Wong as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | 1935-01-25 |
| The Man Who Reclaimed His Head as 'Curly' | 1934-12-24 |
| The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 |
| Money Means Nothing as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | 1934-06-14 |
| I Hate Women as Scoop McGuire | 1934-05-10 |
| Men in White as Shorty | 1934-04-06 |
| The Lost Patrol as Morelli | 1934-02-16 |
| A Woman's Man as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | 1934-02-06 |
| East of Fifth Avenue as Vic Howard | 1933-11-28 |
| My Woman as Chick Rollins | 1933-10-04 |
| Goodbye Again as Arthur Westlake | 1933-09-09 |
| Three Cornered Moon as Kenneth Rimplegar | 1933-08-04 |
| Headline Shooter as Mike | 1933-07-28 |
| The Big Cage as Russ Penny | 1933-05-01 |
| Night of Terror as Tom Hartley | 1933-04-23 |
| Employees' Entrance as Martin West | 1933-02-11 |
| Hypnotized as Bill Bogard | 1932-12-25 |
| Central Park as Rick | 1932-12-10 |
| Skyscraper Souls as Slim | 1932-07-16 |
| The Wet Parade as Jerry Tyler | 1932-03-26 |
| Are You Listening? as Larry Barnes | 1932-03-21 |
| The Beast of the City as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick | 1932-02-13 |
| Freaks as Phroso | 1932-01-01 |
| X Marks the Spot as Ted Lloyd | 1931-12-13 |
| Possessed as Al Manning | 1931-11-21 |
| Married in Hollywood as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) | 1929-09-22 |
