Wallace Ford
Born: 1898-02-11
Place of Birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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
Money Means Nothing
Rendezvous with Annie
A Son Comes Home
Freaks
Warlock
Three Cornered Moon
Black Angel
Skyscraper Souls
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Harvey
Exiled to Shanghai
The Set-Up
Warpath
Destry
Back Door to Heaven
A Woman's Man
Lucy Gallant
The Furies
Spellbound
Wichita
The Nebraskan
The Rainmaker
Rodeo
Scatterbrain
My Woman
The Great John L.
Magic Town
The Informer
Shadow of a Doubt
Swellhead
Possessed
T-Men
X Marks the Spot
3 Ring Circus
Jericho
Bristle Face
Inside the Law
Coroner Creek
Hypnotized
Tess of the Storm Country
The Lost Patrol
On Stage Everybody
Thunder Over Arizona
The Beast of the City
The Man from Laramie
The Maverick Queen
A Lawless Street
The Breaking Point
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
The Last Hurrah
Get That Man
Dead Reckoning
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
A Patch of Blue
The Green Years
Stagecoach To Fury
All Through the Night
The Man from Texas
Swing It, Sailor!
Shed No Tears
Flesh and Fury
The Nut Farm
Are You Listening?
Mary Burns, Fugitive
The First Texan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
In Spite of Danger
He Ran All the Way
The Mummy's Hand
The Big Cage
I Hate Women
The Ape Man
Men in White
Married in Hollywood
The Mummy's Tomb
The Wet Parade
Lover Come Back
A Man Betrayed
The Whole Town's Talking
The Hollywood Gad-About
Isle Of Destiny
Blues in the Night
Employees' Entrance
Secret Command
The Spoilers
A Guy Could Change
The Cross of Lorraine
The Matchmaker
O.H.M.S.
Blood on the Sun
Night of Terror
Crack-Up
Murder by Invitation
Johnny Concho
Belle Starr's Daughter
Twilight for the Gods
Give Us Wings
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Headline Shooter
Two in the Dark
The Rogues' Tavern
Central Park
Two Girls on Broadway
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
East of Fifth Avenue
Dakota Lil
The Boy from Oklahoma
The Great Jesse James Raid
Stardust
She Couldn't Take It
She Couldn't Say No
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Goodbye Again
Another Face
Absolute Quiet
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Embraceable You
Roar of the Press
One Frightened Night
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
