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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 11, 1898
Died
June 11, 1966
Place of Birth
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Samuel Jones Grundy
- Wally Ford
- Samuel Grundy Jones
Wallace Ford
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.4
Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
7.6
Ole Pa
A Patch of Blue
1965
0.0
Emory Packer
Bristle Face
1964
0.0
Uncle Billy Smith
The Great Adventure
1963
🎬
0.0
Lester Tinney
Vacation Playhouse
1963
0.0
Fred Thorson
Tess of the Storm Country
1960
🎬
5.0
Peter Loves Mary
1960
7.6
Roger Hanover
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
6.2
Harry
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
Credits
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
2008
6.4
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
A Patch of Blue
as Ole Pa
1965
7.6
Bristle Face
as Emory Packer
1964
0.0
The Great Adventure
as Uncle Billy Smith
1963
0.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Lester Tinney
1963
0.0
Tess of the Storm Country
as Fred Thorson
1960
0.0
🎬
Peter Loves Mary
1960
5.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Roger Hanover
1960
7.6
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Harry
1960
6.2
The Deputy
as Herk Lamson
1959
6.2
The Deputy
as Marshal Herk Lamson
1959
6.2
Warlock
as Judge Holloway
1959
6.7
The Last Hurrah
as Charlie Hennessey
1958
7.1
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Twilight for the Gods
as Old Brown
1958
4.2
The Matchmaker
as Malachi Stack
1958
7.0
Trackdown
as Eli Zach
1957
6.4
The Rainmaker
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
1956
6.7
Stagecoach To Fury
as Judge Lester Farrell
1956
5.0
Thunder Over Arizona
as Stiles
1956
6.0
Johnny Concho
as Albert Dark
1956
3.7
The First Texan
as Henry Delaney
1956
6.1
The Maverick Queen
as Jamie
1956
5.3
The Spoilers
as Flapjack Simms
1955
4.8
A Lawless Street
as Dr. Amos Wynn
1955
5.4
Lucy Gallant
as Gus Basserman
1955
7.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Monty Smith
1955
5.4
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Ed Rawlings
1955
6.5
🎬
Kings Row
1955
0.0
The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary
1955
7.2
Wichita
as Arthur Whiteside
1955
6.3
3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley
1954
5.5
Destry
as Doc Curtis
1954
6.1
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Emory Packer
1954
7.8
Climax!
as Bunco Kelly
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Sheriff
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Dr. Karl Wexdig
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Samuel Cramer
1954
3.3
Father Knows Best
1954
6.5
Studio 57
as Boats
1954
0.0
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
1954
5.2
She Couldn't Say No
as Joe Wheelen
1954
5.6
Inner Sanctum
1954
7.0
The Nebraskan
as 'Mac' McBride
1953
3.0
The Great Jesse James Raid
as Elias Hobbs
1953
4.7
The Ford Television Theatre
as Talker
1952
7.3
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.5
Flesh and Fury
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
1952
6.1
Rodeo
as Barbecue Jones
1952
0.0
Warpath
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
1951
5.8
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
as Sam Parks
1951
4.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Innkeeper
1951
7.3
He Ran All the Way
as Fred Dobbs
1951
7.2
Harvey
as The Taxi Driver
1950
7.7
The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan
1950
7.1
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip
1950
7.1
Dakota Lil
as Carter
1950
5.0
Red Stallion In The Rockies
as 'Talky' Carson
1949
0.0
The Set-Up
as Gus
1949
7.3
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Lafe Bailey
1948
4.1
Studio One
1948
5.0
Embraceable You
as Police Lt. Ferria
1948
5.5
Coroner Creek
as Andy West
1948
6.1
Shed No Tears
as Sam Grover
1948
5.0
The Man from Texas
as Jed
1948
6.0
T-Men
as The Schemer
1947
6.8
Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts
1947
6.7
Dead Reckoning
as McGee
1946
6.7
Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane
1946
5.6
Black Angel
as Joe
1946
6.1
Rendezvous with Annie
as Al Morgan
1946
6.0
The Green Years
as Jamie Nigg
1946
6.5
Lover Come Back
as Tubbs
1946
6.2
A Guy Could Change
as Bill Conley
1946
0.0
Spellbound
as Hotel masher
1945
7.4
On Stage Everybody
as Emmett Rogers
1945
0.0
The Great John L.
as McManus
1945
5.0
Blood on the Sun
as Ollie Miller
1945
5.8
Machine Gun Mama
as John O'Reilly
1944
3.8
Secret Command
as Miller
1944
6.8
The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre
1943
6.2
The Ape Man
as Jeff Carter
1943
4.2
Shadow of a Doubt
as Fred Saunders
1943
7.5
The Mummy's Tomb
as Babe Hanson
1942
5.6
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Wally Collins
1942
4.5
Inside the Law
as Billy
1942
5.0
All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter
1942
7.0
Blues in the Night
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
1941
6.3
Murder by Invitation
as Bob White
1941
5.6
Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams
1941
5.6
A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
1941
5.4
Give Us Wings
as Mr. York
1940
6.0
The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson
1940
5.7
Scatterbrain
as Sam Maxwell
1940
0.0
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
as Joe Redmond
1940
0.0
Two Girls on Broadway
as Jed Marlowe
1940
6.6
Isle Of Destiny
as Millard Barnes
1940
5.0
Back Door to Heaven
as Frankie Rogers
1939
3.7
🎬
The Marines Come Thru
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
1938
0.0
Stardust
as Peter Jackson
1938
4.0
Swing It, Sailor!
as Pete Kelly
1938
5.0
🎬
Exiled to Shanghai
as Ted Young
1937
4.9
Jericho
as Mike Clancy
1937
5.8
O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy
1937
3.5
A Son Comes Home
as Steve
1936
1.0
The Rogues' Tavern
as Jimmy Kelly
1936
5.8
Absolute Quiet
as Jack
1936
5.5
Two in the Dark
as Harry Hilyer
1936
5.9
Another Face
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
1935
4.2
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Harper
1935
0.0
She Couldn't Take It
as "Fingers" Boston
1935
4.5
Get That Man
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
1935
3.7
The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip
1935
6.7
Swellhead
as Terry McCall
1935
0.0
One Frightened Night
as Joe Luvalle
1935
5.2
The Nut Farm
as Willie Barton
1935
8.0
In Spite of Danger
as Bob Crane
1935
1.0
The Whole Town's Talking
as Healy
1935
6.8
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
1935
4.1
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as 'Curly'
1934
6.0
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self (uncredited)
1934
5.0
Money Means Nothing
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
1934
4.0
I Hate Women
as Scoop McGuire
1934
0.0
Men in White
as Shorty
1934
6.0
The Lost Patrol
as Morelli
1934
6.5
A Woman's Man
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
1934
4.0
East of Fifth Avenue
as Vic Howard
1933
6.0
My Woman
as Chick Rollins
1933
3.7
Goodbye Again
as Arthur Westlake
1933
5.0
Three-Cornered Moon
as Kenneth Rimplegar
1933
5.2
Headline Shooter
as Mike
1933
5.8
The Big Cage
as Russ Penny
1933
6.0
Night of Terror
as Tom Hartley
1933
5.5
Employees' Entrance
as Martin West
1933
6.3
Hypnotized
as Bill Bogard
1932
0.0
Central Park
as Rick
1932
5.2
Skyscraper Souls
as Slim
1932
5.6
The Wet Parade
as Jerry Tyler
1932
5.8
Are You Listening?
as Larry Barnes
1932
5.0
The Beast of the City
as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
1932
5.9
Freaks
as Phroso
1932
7.8
X Marks the Spot
as Ted Lloyd
1931
6.0
Possessed
as Al Manning
1931
7.1
Married in Hollywood
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
1929
0.0