Wallace Ford
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.
Acting (121 movies)
Spellbound
1945
Black Angel
1946
Dead Reckoning
1946
The Beast of the City
1932
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
The Mummy's Hand
1940
A Man Betrayed
1941
He Ran All the Way
1951
Blues in the Night
1941
A Patch of Blue
1965
Crack-Up
1946
T-Men
1947
The Furies
1950
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
One Frightened Night
1935
All Through the Night
1942
A Lawless Street
1955
Johnny Concho
1956
Coroner Creek
1948
Warlock
1959
The Ape Man
1943
Employees' Entrance
1933
The Informer
1935
3 Ring Circus
1954
Back Door to Heaven
1939
The Breaking Point
1950
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1935
The Set-Up
1949
The Lost Patrol
1934
The Man from Laramie
1955
The Rogues' Tavern
1936
The Whole Town's Talking
1935
Secret Command
1944
Shed No Tears
1948
Possessed
1931
Three Cornered Moon
1933
The Last Hurrah
1958
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
Destry
1954
The Cross of Lorraine
1943
Flesh and Fury
1952
The Green Years
1946
Men in White
1934
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
She Couldn't Say No
1954
The Man from Texas
1948
Warpath
1951
Wichita
1955
The First Texan
1956
The Wet Parade
1932
Swellhead
1935
X Marks the Spot
1931
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
Night of Terror
1933
Are You Listening?
1932
Money Means Nothing
1934
Embraceable You
1948
Headline Shooter
1933
The Nut Farm
1935
O.H.M.S.
1937
Two in the Dark
1936
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
Machine Gun Mama
1944
Absolute Quiet
1936
Central Park
1932
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
The Nebraskan
1953
Inside the Law
1942
Get That Man
1935
Murder by Invitation
1941
The Great Jesse James Raid
1953
Goodbye Again
1933
Lover Come Back
1946
A Woman's Man
1934
Isle Of Destiny
1940
Swing It, Sailor!
1938
Dakota Lil
1950
I Hate Women
1934
Another Face
1935
She Couldn't Take It
1935
East of Fifth Avenue
1933
Give Us Wings
1940
Magic Town
1947
The Rainmaker
1956
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940
Rodeo
1952
Scatterbrain
1940
My Woman
1933
Skyscraper Souls
1932
Hypnotized
1932
Jericho
1937
Harvey
1950
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
A Son Comes Home
1936
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
Tess of the Storm Country
1960
The Great John L.
1945
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