Wallace Ford
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-11 (68 years old)
Deathday
1966-06-11
Place of Birth
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known As
Samuel Jones Grundy
Wally Ford
Samuel Grundy Jones
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 in a theatre. Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing o...
Acting
1945
as Hotel masher
1946
as Joe
1946
as McGee
1932
as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
1943
as Fred Saunders
1940
as Babe Jenson
1941
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
1951
as Fred Dobbs
1941
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
1965
as Ole Pa
1946
as Lt. Cochrane
1947
as The Schemer
1950
as Scotty Hyslip
1942
as Babe Hanson
1935
as Joe Luvalle
1942
as Spats Hunter
1955
as Dr. Amos Wynn
1956
as Albert Dark
1948
as Andy West
1959
as Judge Holloway
1943
as Jeff Carter
1933
as Martin West
1935
as Frankie McPhillip
1954
as Sam Morley
1939
as Frankie Rogers
1950
as F.R. Duncan
1935
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
1949
as Gus
1934
as Morelli
1955
as Charley O'Leary
1936
as Jimmy Kelly
1935
as Healy
1944
as Miller
1948
as Sam Grover
1931
as Al Manning
1933
as Kenneth Rimplegar
1958
as Charlie Hennessey
1956
as Stiles
1954
as Doc Curtis
1943
as Pierre
1952
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
1946
as Jamie Nigg
1934
as Shorty
1935
as Harper
1954
as Joe Wheelen
1948
as Jed
1951
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
1955
as Arthur Whiteside
1956
as Henry Delaney
1932
as Jerry Tyler
1935
as Terry McCall
1931
as Ted Lloyd
1942
as Wally Collins
1937
as Ted Young
1933
as Tom Hartley
1932
as Larry Barnes
1934
as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
1948
as Police Lt. Ferria
1933
as Mike
1935
as Willie Barton
1937
as Jimmy Tracy
1936
as Harry Hilyer
1956
as Judge Lester Farrell
1944
as John O'Reilly
1936
as Jack
1932
as Rick
1954
as Walter "Wally" Higgins
1953
as 'Mac' McBride
1942
as Billy
1935
as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
1941
as Bob White
1953
as Elias Hobbs
1933
as Arthur Westlake
1946
as Tubbs
1934
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
1940
as Millard Barnes
1938
as Pete Kelly
1950
as Carter
1934
as Scoop McGuire
1935
as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
1935
as "Fingers" Boston
1933
as Vic Howard
1940
as Mr. York
1947
as Lou Dicketts
1956
as Sheriff Howard Thomas
1940
as Joe Redmond
1952
as Barbecue Jones
1940
as Sam Maxwell
1933
as Chick Rollins
1932
as Slim
1932
as Bill Bogard
1937
as Mike Clancy
1950
as The Taxi Driver
1948
as Lafe Bailey
1949
as 'Talky' Carson
1940
as Jed Marlowe
1936
as Steve
1946
as Al Morgan
1960
as Fred Thorson
1938
as Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins
1945
as McManus
1933
as Russ Penny
1951
as Sam Parks
1946
as Bill Conley
1955
as Gus Basserman
1945
as Ollie Miller
1955
as Flapjack Simms
1941
as Wally Williams
1956
as Jamie
1929
as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
1958
as Old Brown
1934
as Self (uncredited)
1958
as Malachi Stack
1945
as Emmett Rogers
1938
as Peter Jackson
2008
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
1987
as Self (archive footage)
1964
as Emory Packer
1932
as Phroso
1935
as Bob Crane
1934
as 'Curly'
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