Wallace Ford

Known for ActingBorn 1898-02-11Died 1966-06-11Bolton, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Adventure

Tess of the Storm Country

The Motorola Television Hour

Swellhead

Red Stallion In The Rockies

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

Mary Burns, Fugitive

The Nut Farm

Bristle Face

Vacation Playhouse

Inner Sanctum

Studio 57

The Man from Texas

On Stage Everybody

The Wonderful World of Disney

Men of the Hour

I Hate Women

The Big Cage

The Ford Television Theatre

A Patch of Blue

The Andy Griffith Show

Harvey

Freaks

Shadow of a Doubt

Scatterbrain

Swing It, Sailor!

Spellbound

The Set-Up

The Last Hurrah

The Man from Laramie

Give Us Wings

He Ran All the Way

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Furies

The Matchmaker

The Breaking Point

Lover Come Back

Lucy Gallant

Screen Director's Playhouse

Rodeo

Rendezvous with Annie

A Guy Could Change

Trackdown

Two Girls on Broadway

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Warlock

The Rainmaker

Hypnotized