Wallace Ford
Known for: Acting
Born: February 11, 1898
Died: June 11, 1966
Place of birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
123 movies · 22 TV shows, newest first
6.1
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
7.6
A Patch of Blue
1965
8.0
Bristle Face
1964
10.0
The Great Adventure
19638.0
Vacation Playhouse
1963
10.0
Tess of the Storm Country
1960
6.5
Peter Loves Mary
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
6.4
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
6.5
The Deputy
1959
6.8
Warlock
1959
7.2
The Last Hurrah
1958
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
4.7
Twilight for the Gods
1958
7.0
The Matchmaker
1958
6.9
Trackdown
1957
NR
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
1957
5.4
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
6.8
The Rainmaker
1956
6.3
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
4.5
Johnny Concho
1956
6.7
The First Texan
1956
5.8
The Maverick Queen
1956
5.5
The Spoilers
1955
5.6
A Lawless Street
1955
7.0
Lucy Gallant
1955
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
7.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955NR
Kings Row
1955
7.2
The Man from Laramie
1955
6.3
Wichita
1955
5.6
3 Ring Circus
1954
6.1
Destry
1954
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
3.8
Climax!
1954
6.6
Father Knows Best
1954
7.5
Studio 57
1954
NR
The Whistler
1954
5.7
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
5.7
She Couldn't Say No
1954
8.0
Inner Sanctum
1954
3.8
The Nebraskan
1953
10.0
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
6.0
The Great Jesse James Raid
1953
7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
6.5
This Is Your Life
1952
6.6
Flesh and Fury
1952
7.0
Rodeo
1952
6.0
Warpath
1951
6.0
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
He Ran All the Way
1951
7.7
Harvey
1950
7.1
The Breaking Point
1950
7.1
The Furies
1950
5.4
Dakota Lil
1950
9.0
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949
7.4
The Set-Up
1949
5.1
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.0
Embraceable You
1948
6.2
Coroner Creek
1948
5.1
Shed No Tears
1948
8.0
The Man from Texas
1948
6.7
T-Men
1947
6.7
Magic Town
1947
6.9
Dead Reckoning
1946
5.8
Crack-Up
1946
6.1
Black Angel
1946
7.0
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
6.4
The Green Years
1946
7.1
Lover Come Back
1946
7.0
A Guy Could Change
1946
7.4
Spellbound
1945
8.0
On Stage Everybody
1945
6.3
The Great John L.
1945
5.9
Blood on the Sun
1945
4.5
Machine Gun Mama
1944
6.6
Secret Command
1944
6.5
The Cross of Lorraine
1943
4.4
The Ape Man
1943
7.5
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
5.5
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
5.9
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
6.7
Inside the Law
1942
6.7
All Through the Night
1942
6.2
Blues in the Night
1941
6.0
Murder by Invitation
1941
6.3
Roar of the Press
1941
5.5
A Man Betrayed
1941
7.3
Give Us Wings
1940
5.7
The Mummy's Hand
1940
7.5
Scatterbrain
1940
9.0
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940
7.0
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
5.7
Isle Of Destiny
1940
4.8
Back Door to Heaven
19396.0
The Marines Come Thru
1938
5.3
Stardust
1938
7.5
Swing It, Sailor!
1938
5.5
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
6.2
Jericho
1937
4.7
O.H.M.S.
1937
4.0
A Son Comes Home
1936
6.4
The Rogues' Tavern
1936
5.6
Absolute Quiet
1936
6.1
Two in the Dark
1936
4.8
Another Face
1935
9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
5.3
She Couldn't Take It
1935
4.3
Get That Man
1935
6.8
The Informer
1935
8.0
Men of the Hour
1935
10.0
Swellhead
1935
5.6
One Frightened Night
1935
9.0
The Nut Farm
1935
5.5
In Spite of Danger
1935
6.9
The Whole Town's Talking
1935
4.3
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1935
6.0
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934
6.0
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
5.8
Money Means Nothing
1934
8.0
I Hate Women
1934
6.3
Men in White
1934
6.5
The Lost Patrol
1934
6.5
A Woman's Man
1934
6.3
East of Fifth Avenue
1933
4.2
My Woman
1933
4.9
Goodbye Again
1933
6.0
Three Cornered Moon
1933
6.3
Headline Shooter
1933
8.0
The Big Cage
1933
5.2
Night of Terror
1933
6.1
Employees' Entrance
1933
7.0
Hypnotized
1932
5.8
Central Park
1932
5.5
Skyscraper Souls
1932
6.2
The Wet Parade
1932
5.6
Are You Listening?
1932
5.9
The Beast of the City
1932
7.8
Freaks
1932
6.5
X Marks the Spot
1931
7.0
Possessed
1931
7.0
Married in Hollywood
1929