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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.
The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | Film |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa | Film |
| 1959 | Warlock | Judge Holloway | Film |
| 1959 | The Deputy | Marshal Herk Lamson | TV |
| 1958 | The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack | Film |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah | Charlie Hennessey | Film |
| 1958 | Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown | Film |
| 1956 | Stagecoach To Fury | Judge Lester Farrell | Film |
| 1956 | Johnny Concho | Albert Dark | Film |
| 1956 | The Maverick Queen | Jamie | Film |
| 1956 | Thunder Over Arizona | Stiles | Film |
| 1956 | The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas | Film |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Henry Delaney | Film |
| 1955 | Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman | Film |
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary | Film |
| 1955 | A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn | Film |
| 1955 | The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms | Film |
| 1955 | Wichita | Arthur Whiteside | Film |
| 1954 | She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen | Film |
| 1954 | 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley | Film |
| 1954 | The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins | Film |
| 1954 | Destry | Doc Curtis | Film |
| 1953 | The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride | Film |
| 1952 | Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson | Film |
| 1951 | He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs | Film |
| 1951 | Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | Film |
| 1950 | The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan | Film |
| 1950 | The Furies | Scotty Hyslip | Film |
| 1950 | Harvey | The Taxi Driver | Film |
| 1949 | The Set-Up | Gus | Film |
| 1948 | Shed No Tears | Sam Grover | Film |
| 1948 | The Man from Texas | Jed | Film |
| 1948 | Coroner Creek | Andy West | Film |
| 1948 | Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria | Film |
| 1947 | T-Men | The Schemer | Film |
| 1947 | Magic Town | Lou Dicketts | Film |
| 1946 | Black Angel | Joe | Film |
| 1946 | Dead Reckoning | McGee | Film |
| 1946 | Crack-Up | Lt. Cochrane | Film |
| 1946 | The Green Years | Jamie Nigg | Film |
| 1946 | Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan | Film |
| 1945 | Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller | Film |
| 1945 | Spellbound | Hotel masher | Film |
| 1945 | The Great John L. | McManus | Film |
| 1944 | Secret Command | Miller | Film |
| 1944 | Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly | Film |
| 1943 | The Ape Man | Jeff Carter | Film |
| 1943 | The Cross of Lorraine | Pierre | Film |
| 1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | Fred Saunders | Film |
| 1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins | Film |
| 1942 | The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson | Film |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Spats Hunter | Film |
| 1942 | Inside the Law | Billy | Film |
| 1941 | Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | Film |
| 1941 | A Man Betrayed | Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | Film |
| 1940 | Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell | Film |
| 1940 | Isle Of Destiny | Millard Barnes | Film |
| 1940 | Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe | Film |
| 1940 | The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson | Film |
| 1939 | Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers | Film |
| 1937 | Jericho | Mike Clancy | Film |
| 1937 | O.H.M.S. | Jimmy Tracy | Film |
| 1937 | Exiled to Shanghai | Ted Young | Film |
| 1936 | The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly | Film |
| 1936 | Two in the Dark | Harry Hilyer | Film |
| 1936 | Absolute Quiet | Jack | Film |
| 1935 | The Informer | Frankie McPhillip | Film |
| 1935 | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | Film |
| 1935 | One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle | Film |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper | Film |
| 1935 | The Whole Town's Talking | Healy | Film |
| 1935 | The Nut Farm | Willie Barton | Film |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | 'Curly' | Film |
| 1934 | A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | Film |
| 1934 | The Lost Patrol | Morelli | Film |
| 1934 | Men in White | Shorty | Film |
| 1934 | Money Means Nothing | Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | Film |
| 1933 | Three Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar | Film |
| 1933 | Employees' Entrance | Martin West | Film |
| 1933 | Night of Terror | Tom Hartley | Film |
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