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.

• Ciudați (1932) — Phroso
• Umbra unei îndoieli (1943) — Fred Saunders
• Fascinația (1945) — Stranger in Hotel Lobby
• Harvey (1950) — The Taxi Driver
• Omul din Laramie (1955) — Charley O'Leary
• The Set-Up (1949) — Gus
• Warlock (1959) — Judge Holloway
• Dead Reckoning (1946) — McGee
• The Informer (1935) — Frankie McPhillip
• A Patch of Blue (1965) — Ole Pa
• The Mummy's Hand (1940) — Babe Jenson
• T-Men (1947) — The Schemer
• The Breaking Point (1950) — F.R. Duncan
• The Mummy's Tomb (1942) — Babe Hanson
• The Furies (1950) — Scotty Hyslip
• The Lost Patrol (1934) — Morelli
• All Through the Night (1942) — Spats Hunter
• He Ran All the Way (1951) — Fred Dobbs
• The Whole Town's Talking (1935) — Healy
• The Last Hurrah (1958) — Charlie Hennessey
• Wichita (1955) — Arthur Whiteside
• Black Angel (1946) — Joe
• The Rainmaker (1956) — Sheriff Howard Thomas
• The Ape Man (1943) — Jeff Carter