From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English movie and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build later in life, appeared in a number of movie westerns and B-movies. Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent 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, he 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 part in the film Possessed and went on to appear in over 200 films including 13 directed by John Ford, through the two men were unrelated. He also appeared in a 1964 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as Roger Hanover, Aunt Bee's old flame. He is buried with an unmarked grave in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wallace Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | A Patch of Blue | Ole Pa | 1965-12-10 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Fred Thorson | 1960-12-08 |
Series | The Deputy | Herk Lamson | 1959-09-12 |
Movie | Warlock | Judge Holloway | 1959-05-15 |
Movie | The Last Hurrah | Charlie Hennessey | 1958-12-31 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown | 1958-08-04 |
Movie | The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack | 1958-07-23 |
Movie | Johnny Concho | Albert Dark | 1956-07-01 |
Movie | The First Texan | Henry Delaney | 1956-06-29 |
Movie | The Maverick Queen | Jamie | 1956-05-03 |
Movie | Thunder Over Arizona | Stiles | 1956-08-04 |
Movie | Stagecoach To Fury | Judge Lester Farrell | 1956-12-13 |
Movie | The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas | 1956-12-13 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms | 1955-12-23 |
Movie | A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn | 1955-11-15 |
Movie | Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman | 1955-10-20 |
Movie | The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary | 1955-08-19 |
Movie | Wichita | Arthur Whiteside | 1955-07-03 |
Movie | 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley | 1954-12-22 |
Movie | Destry | Doc Curtis | 1954-12-01 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | Father Knows Best | Unknown | 1954-10-03 |
Movie | The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins | 1954-02-27 |
Movie | She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen | 1954-02-15 |
Movie | The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride | 1953-12-02 |
Movie | The Great Jesse James Raid | Elias Hobbs | 1953-07-17 |
Movie | Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson | 1952-06-26 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs | 1951-06-20 |
Movie | Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | 1951-11-22 |
Movie | Painting The Clouds With Sunshine | Sam Parks | 1951-10-10 |
Movie | Harvey | The Taxi Driver | 1950-12-04 |
Movie | The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan | 1950-10-06 |
Movie | The Furies | Scotty Hyslip | 1950-08-16 |
Movie | Dakota Lil | Carter | 1950-02-17 |
Movie | The Set-Up | Gus | 1949-03-29 |
Movie | Red Stallion In The Rockies | 'Talky' Carson | 1949-05-02 |
Movie | Belle Starr's Daughter | Lafe Bailey | 1948-11-13 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria | 1948-08-21 |
Movie | Coroner Creek | Andy West | 1948-07-01 |
Movie | Shed No Tears | Sam Grover | 1948-06-09 |
Movie | The Man from Texas | Jed | 1948-03-06 |
Movie | Dead Reckoning | McGee | 1947-01-16 |
Movie | T-Men | The Schemer | 1947-12-15 |
Movie | Magic Town | Lou Dicketts | 1947-10-07 |
Movie | Crack-Up | Lt. Cochrane | 1946-09-06 |
Movie | Black Angel | Joe | 1946-08-02 |
Movie | Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan | 1946-07-22 |
Movie | The Green Years | Jamie Nigg | 1946-07-04 |
Movie | Lover Come Back | Tubbs | 1946-06-21 |
Movie | A Guy Could Change | Bill Conley | 1946-01-27 |
Movie | Spellbound | Hotel masher | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | On Stage Everybody | Emmett Rogers | 1945-07-13 |
Movie | The Great John L. | McManus | 1945-05-25 |
Movie | Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller | 1945-04-26 |
Movie | Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly | 1944-08-18 |
Movie | Secret Command | Miller | 1944-07-30 |
Movie | Shadow of a Doubt | Fred Saunders | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | The Cross of Lorraine | Pierre | 1943-11-12 |
Movie | The Ape Man | Jeff Carter | 1943-03-05 |
Movie | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Inside the Law | Billy | 1942-05-08 |
Movie | All Through the Night | Spats Hunter | 1942-01-10 |
Movie | The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson | 1942-10-23 |
Movie | Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | 1941-11-15 |
Movie | Murder by Invitation | Bob White | 1941-06-30 |
Movie | Roar of the Press | Wally Williams | 1941-04-17 |
Movie | A Man Betrayed | Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | 1941-03-07 |
Movie | Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! | Joe Redmond | 1940-06-07 |
Movie | Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe | 1940-04-19 |
Movie | Isle Of Destiny | Millard Barnes | 1940-03-08 |
Movie | Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell | 1940-07-20 |
Movie | The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson | 1940-09-20 |
Movie | Give Us Wings | Mr. York | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | The Marines Come Thru | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | 1938-08-04 |
Movie | Stardust | Peter Jackson | 1938-03-25 |
Movie | Swing It, Sailor! | Pete Kelly | 1938-02-04 |
Movie | O.H.M.S. | Jimmy Tracy | 1937-01-01 |
Movie | Jericho | Mike Clancy | 1937-08-23 |
Movie | Exiled to Shanghai | Ted Young | 1937-12-20 |
Movie | The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly | 1936-06-04 |
Movie | Absolute Quiet | Jack | 1936-04-24 |
Movie | Two in the Dark | Harry Hilyer | 1936-01-10 |
Movie | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | 1935-01-25 |
Movie | The Whole Town's Talking | Healy | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | In Spite of Danger | Bob Crane | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | The Nut Farm | Willie Barton | 1935-03-24 |
Movie | One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle | 1935-05-01 |
Movie | The Informer | Frankie McPhillip | 1935-05-09 |
Movie | Get That Man | Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | 1935-07-10 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | "Fingers" Boston | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper | 1935-11-15 |
Movie | Another Face | Joe Haynes, Press Agent | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | 'Curly' | 1934-12-24 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | Money Means Nothing | Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay | 1934-06-14 |
Movie | I Hate Women | Scoop McGuire | 1934-05-10 |
Movie | Men in White | Shorty | 1934-04-06 |
Movie | The Lost Patrol | Morelli | 1934-02-16 |
Movie | A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | 1934-02-06 |
Movie | Employees' Entrance | Martin West | 1933-02-11 |
Movie | Night of Terror | Tom Hartley | 1933-04-23 |
Movie | The Big Cage | Russ Penny | 1933-05-01 |
Movie | Three-Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar | 1933-08-08 |
Movie | Headline Shooter | Mike | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | Goodbye Again | Arthur Westlake | 1933-09-09 |
Movie | My Woman | Chick Rollins | 1933-10-04 |
Movie | East of Fifth Avenue | Vic Howard | 1933-11-28 |
Movie | Hypnotized | Bill Bogard | 1932-12-25 |
Movie | Central Park | Rick | 1932-12-10 |
Movie | Skyscraper Souls | Slim | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Jerry Tyler | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Are You Listening? | Larry Barnes | 1932-03-21 |
Movie | The Beast of the City | Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | 1932-02-13 |
Movie | Freaks | Phroso | 1932-02-12 |
Movie | X Marks the Spot | Ted Lloyd | 1931-12-13 |
Movie | Possessed | Al Manning | 1931-11-21 |
Movie | Married in Hollywood | Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) | 1929-09-22 |