Wallace Ford

Actor

1898-02-11 – 1966-06-11 · Bolton, 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.

• La parada de los monstruos (1932) — Phroso
• La sombra de una duda (1943) — Fred Saunders
• Recuerda (1945) — Stranger in Hotel Lobby
• El invisible Harvey (1950) — The Taxi Driver
• El hombre de Laramie (1955) — Charley O'Leary
• Nadie puede vencerme (1949) — Gus
• El hombre de las pistolas de oro (1959) — Judge Holloway
• Callejón sin salida (1946) — McGee
• El delator (1935) — Frankie McPhillip
• Un retazo de azul (1965) — Ole Pa
• La mano de la momia (1940) — Babe Jenson
• La brigada suicida (1947) — The Schemer
• Punto de ruptura (1950) — F.R. Duncan
• La tumba de la momia (1942) — Babe Hanson
• Las furias (1950) — Scotty Hyslip
• La patrulla perdida (1934) — Morelli
• A través de la noche (1942) — Spats Hunter
• Yo amé a un asesino (1951) — Fred Dobbs
• Pasaporte a la fama (1935) — Healy
• El último hurra (1958) — Charlie Hennessey
• Wichita, ciudad infernal (1955) — Arthur Whiteside
• Ángel negro (1946) — Joe
• El farsante (1956) — Sheriff Howard Thomas
• The Ape Man (1943) — Jeff Carter