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 i
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Personal Info

Id

35849

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-11

Place of Birth

Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As

  • Samuel Jones Grundy
  • Wally Ford
  • Samuel Grundy Jones
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    100

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    Known For

    Spellbound

    Spellbound

    Black Angel

    Black Angel

    Dead Reckoning

    Dead Reckoni

    The Beast of the City

    The Beast of

    Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a

    The Mummy's Hand

    The Mummy's

    A Man Betrayed

    A Man Betray

    He Ran All the Way

    He Ran All t

    Blues in the Night

    Blues in the

    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of B

    Crack-Up

    Crack-Up

    T-Men

    T-Men

    The Furies

    The Furies

    The Mummy's Tomb

    The Mummy's

    One Frightened Night

    One Frighten

    All Through the Night

    All Through

    A Lawless Street

    A Lawless St

    Johnny Concho

    Johnny Conch

    Coroner Creek

    Coroner Cree

    Warlock

    Warlock

    The Ape Man

    The Ape Man

    Employees' Entrance

    Employees' E

    The Informer

    The Informer

    3 Ring Circus

    3 Ring Circu

    Back Door to Heaven

    Back Door to

    The Breaking Point

    The Breaking

    The Mysterious Mr. Wong

    The Mysterio

    The Set-Up

    The Set-Up

    The Lost Patrol

    The Lost Pat

    The Man from Laramie

    The Man from

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    The Rogues'

    The Whole Town's Talking

    The Whole To

    Secret Command

    Secret Comma

    Shed No Tears

    Shed No Tear

    Possessed

    Possessed

    Three-Cornered Moon

    Three-Corner

    The Last Hurrah

    The Last Hur

    Thunder Over Arizona

    Thunder Over

    Destry

    Destry

    The Cross of Lorraine

    The Cross of

    Flesh and Fury

    Flesh and Fu

    The Green Years

    The Green Ye

    Men in White

    Men in White

    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Mary Burns,

    She Couldn't Say No

    She Couldn't

    The Man from Texas

    The Man from

    Warpath

    Warpath

    Wichita

    Wichita

    The First Texan

    The First Te

    The Wet Parade

    The Wet Para

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    Swellhead

    X Marks the Spot

    X Marks the

    Scattergood Survives a Murder

    Scattergood

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    Exiled to Sh

    Night of Terror

    Night of Ter

    Are You Listening?

    Are You List

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    Money Means

    Embraceable You

    Embraceable

    Headline Shooter

    Headline Sho

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    The Nut Farm

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    O.H.M.S.

    Two in the Dark

    Two in the D

    Stagecoach To Fury

    Stagecoach T

    Machine Gun Mama

    Machine Gun

    Absolute Quiet

    Absolute Qui

    Central Park

    Central Park

    The Boy from Oklahoma

    The Boy from

    The Nebraskan

    The Nebraska

    Inside the Law

    Inside the L

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    Get That Man

    Murder by Invitation

    Murder by In

    The Great Jesse James Raid

    The Great Je

    Goodbye Again

    Goodbye Agai

    Lover Come Back

    Lover Come B

    A Woman's Man

    A Woman's Ma

    Isle Of Destiny

    Isle Of Dest

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    Swing It, Sa

    Dakota Lil

    Dakota Lil

    I Hate Women

    I Hate Women

    Another Face

    Another Face

    She Couldn't Take It

    She Couldn't

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    East of Fift

    Give Us Wings

    Give Us Wing

    Magic Town

    Magic Town

    The Rainmaker

    The Rainmake

    Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

    Love, Honor

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    Rodeo

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    Scatterbrain

    My Woman

    My Woman

    Skyscraper Souls

    Skyscraper S

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    Hypnotized

    Jericho

    Jericho

    Harvey

    Harvey

    Belle Starr's Daughter

    Belle Starr'

    Red Stallion In The Rockies

    Red Stallion

    Two Girls on Broadway

    Two Girls on

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    A Son Comes

    Rendezvous with Annie

    Rendezvous w

    Tess of the Storm Country

    Tess of the

    The Great John L.

    The Great Jo

    The Big Cage

    The Big Cage

    Painting The Clouds With Sunshine

    Painting The

    A Guy Could Change

    A Guy Could

    Lucy Gallant

    Lucy Gallant

    Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the

    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers

    Roar of the Press

    Roar of the

    The Maverick Queen

    The Maverick

    Married in Hollywood

    Married in H

    Twilight for the Gods

    Twilight for

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    The Hollywoo

    The Matchmaker

    The Matchmak

    On Stage Everybody

    On Stage Eve

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    Stardust

    Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

    Thou Shalt N

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    James Stewar

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    Bristle Face

    Freaks

    Freaks

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    In Spite of

    The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

    The Man Who

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    2008

    Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

    asDetective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)

    1988

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1965

    A Patch of Blue

    asOle Pa

    1964

    Bristle Face

    asEmory Packer

    1960

    Tess of the Storm Country

    asFred Thorson

    1959

    Warlock

    asJudge Holloway

    1958

    The Last Hurrah

    asCharlie Hennessey

    1958

    Twilight for the Gods

    asOld Brown

    1958

    The Matchmaker

    asMalachi Stack

    1956

    Stagecoach To Fury

    asJudge Lester Farrell

    1956

    The Rainmaker

    asSheriff Howard Thomas

    1956

    Thunder Over Arizona

    asStiles

    1956

    Johnny Concho

    asAlbert Dark

    1956

    The First Texan

    asHenry Delaney

    1956

    The Maverick Queen

    asJamie

    1955

    The Spoilers

    asFlapjack Simms

    1955

    A Lawless Street

    asDr. Amos Wynn

    1955

    Lucy Gallant

    asGus Basserman

    1955

    The Man from Laramie

    asCharley O'Leary

    1955

    Wichita

    asArthur Whiteside

    1954

    3 Ring Circus

    asSam Morley

    1954

    Destry

    asDoc Curtis

    1954

    The Boy from Oklahoma

    asWalter "Wally" Higgins

    1954

    She Couldn't Say No

    asJoe Wheelen

    1953

    The Nebraskan

    as'Mac' McBride

    1953

    The Great Jesse James Raid

    asElias Hobbs

    1952

    Flesh and Fury

    asJack 'Pop' Richardson

    1952

    Rodeo

    asBarbecue Jones

    1951

    Warpath

    asPvt. 'Irish' Potts

    1951

    Painting The Clouds With Sunshine

    asSam Parks

    1951

    He Ran All the Way

    asFred Dobbs

    1950

    Harvey

    asThe Taxi Driver

    1950

    The Breaking Point

    asF.R. Duncan

    1950

    The Furies

    asScotty Hyslip

    1950

    Dakota Lil

    asCarter

    1949

    Red Stallion In The Rockies

    as'Talky' Carson

    1949

    The Set-Up

    asGus

    1948

    Belle Starr's Daughter

    asLafe Bailey

    1948

    Embraceable You

    asPolice Lt. Ferria

    1948

    Coroner Creek

    asAndy West

    1948

    Shed No Tears

    asSam Grover

    1948

    The Man from Texas

    asJed

    1947

    T-Men

    asThe Schemer

    1947

    Magic Town

    asLou Dicketts

    1946

    Dead Reckoning

    asMcGee

    1946

    Crack-Up

    asLt. Cochrane

    1946

    Black Angel

    asJoe

    1946

    Rendezvous with Annie

    asAl Morgan

    1946

    The Green Years

    asJamie Nigg

    1946

    Lover Come Back

    asTubbs

    1946

    A Guy Could Change

    asBill Conley

    1945

    Spellbound

    asHotel masher

    1945

    On Stage Everybody

    asEmmett Rogers

    1945

    The Great John L.

    asMcManus

    1945

    Blood on the Sun

    asOllie Miller

    1944

    Machine Gun Mama

    asJohn O'Reilly

    1944

    Secret Command

    asMiller

    1943

    The Cross of Lorraine

    asPierre

    1943

    The Ape Man

    asJeff Carter

    1943

    Shadow of a Doubt

    asFred Saunders

    1942

    The Mummy's Tomb

    asBabe Hanson

    1942

    Scattergood Survives a Murder

    asWally Collins

    1942

    Inside the Law

    asBilly

    1942

    All Through the Night

    asSpats Hunter

    1941

    Blues in the Night

    asBrad Ames (as Wally Ford)

    1941

    Murder by Invitation

    asBob White

    1941

    Roar of the Press

    asWally Williams

    1941

    A Man Betrayed

    asCasey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)

    1940

    Give Us Wings

    asMr. York

    1940

    The Mummy's Hand

    asBabe Jenson

    1940

    Scatterbrain

    asSam Maxwell

    1940

    Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

    asJoe Redmond

    1940

    Two Girls on Broadway

    asJed Marlowe

    1940

    Isle Of Destiny

    asMillard Barnes

    1939

    Back Door to Heaven

    asFrankie Rogers

    1938

    The Marines Come Thru

    asPvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins

    1938

    Stardust

    asPeter Jackson

    1938

    Swing It, Sailor!

    asPete Kelly

    1937

    Exiled to Shanghai

    asTed Young

    1937

    Jericho

    asMike Clancy

    1937

    O.H.M.S.

    asJimmy Tracy

    1936

    A Son Comes Home

    asSteve

    1936

    The Rogues' Tavern

    asJimmy Kelly

    1936

    Absolute Quiet

    asJack

    1936

    Two in the Dark

    asHarry Hilyer

    1935

    Another Face

    asJoe Haynes, Press Agent

    1935

    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    asHarper

    1935

    She Couldn't Take It

    as"Fingers" Boston

    1935

    Get That Man

    asJack Kirkland / John Prescott

    1935

    The Informer

    asFrankie McPhillip

    1935

    Swellhead

    asTerry McCall

    1935

    One Frightened Night

    asJoe Luvalle

    1935

    The Nut Farm

    asWillie Barton

    1935

    In Spite of Danger

    asBob Crane

    1935

    The Whole Town's Talking

    asHealy

    1935

    The Mysterious Mr. Wong

    asJason H. 'Jay' Barton

    1934

    The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

    as'Curly'

    1934

    The Hollywood Gad-About

    asSelf (uncredited)

    1934

    Money Means Nothing

    asKenneth 'Kenny' McKay

    1934

    I Hate Women

    asScoop McGuire

    1934

    Men in White

    asShorty

    1934

    The Lost Patrol

    asMorelli

    1934

    A Woman's Man

    asJoe Flynn - Prizefighter

    1933

    East of Fifth Avenue

    asVic Howard

    1933

    My Woman

    asChick Rollins

    1933

    Goodbye Again

    asArthur Westlake

    1933

    Three-Cornered Moon

    asKenneth Rimplegar

    1933

    Headline Shooter

    asMike

    1933

    The Big Cage

    asRuss Penny

    1933

    Night of Terror

    asTom Hartley

    1933

    Employees' Entrance

    asMartin West

    1932

    Hypnotized

    asBill Bogard

    1932

    Central Park

    asRick

    1932

    Skyscraper Souls

    asSlim

    1932

    The Wet Parade

    asJerry Tyler

    1932

    Are You Listening?

    asLarry Barnes

    1932

    The Beast of the City

    asDet. Ed Fitzpatrick

    1932

    Freaks

    asPhroso

    1931

    X Marks the Spot

    asTed Lloyd

    1931

    Possessed

    asAl Manning

    1929

    Married in Hollywood

    asMitzi's Fan (uncredited)

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asRoger Hanover

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    (1 episode)asUncle Billy Smith

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    (1 episode)asSelf

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    (1 episode)asInnkeeper

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    (3 episode)asMarshal Herk Lamson

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    (1 episode)asSheriff

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    (1 episode)asDr. Karl Wexdig

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