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 | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
Series | The Great Adventure | Unknown | 1963-09-27 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Series | Peter Loves Mary | Unknown | 1960-10-12 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Fred Thorson | 1960-12-08 |
Movie | Warlock | Judge Holloway | 1959-05-15 |
Series | The Deputy | Herk Lamson | 1959-09-12 |
Movie | The Last Hurrah | Charlie Hennessey | 1958-12-31 |
Movie | Twilight for the Gods | Old Brown | 1958-08-04 |
Movie | The Matchmaker | Malachi Stack | 1958-07-23 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Series | Trackdown | Unknown | 1957-10-04 |
Movie | The First Texan | Henry Delaney | 1956-06-29 |
Movie | Johnny Concho | Albert Dark | 1956-07-01 |
Movie | The Maverick Queen | Jamie | 1956-05-03 |
Movie | Stagecoach To Fury | Judge Lester Farrell | 1956-12-13 |
Movie | Thunder Over Arizona | Stiles | 1956-08-04 |
Movie | The Rainmaker | Sheriff Howard Thomas | 1956-12-13 |
Series | Kings Row | Unknown | 1955-09-13 |
Movie | Wichita | Arthur Whiteside | 1955-07-03 |
Movie | The Man from Laramie | Charley O'Leary | 1955-08-19 |
Series | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-05 |
Movie | Lucy Gallant | Gus Basserman | 1955-10-20 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Flapjack Simms | 1955-12-23 |
Movie | A Lawless Street | Dr. Amos Wynn | 1955-11-15 |
Movie | She Couldn't Say No | Joe Wheelen | 1954-02-15 |
Series | The Whistler | Unknown | 1954-07-13 |
Series | Inner Sanctum | Unknown | 1954-01-09 |
Movie | The Boy from Oklahoma | Walter "Wally" Higgins | 1954-02-27 |
Movie | Destry | Doc Curtis | 1954-12-01 |
Series | Father Knows Best | Unknown | 1954-10-03 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Movie | 3 Ring Circus | Sam Morley | 1954-12-22 |
Movie | The Great Jesse James Raid | Elias Hobbs | 1953-07-17 |
Movie | The Nebraskan | 'Mac' McBride | 1953-12-02 |
Movie | Flesh and Fury | Jack 'Pop' Richardson | 1952-06-26 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
Movie | He Ran All the Way | Fred Dobbs | 1951-06-20 |
Movie | Painting The Clouds With Sunshine | Sam Parks | 1951-10-10 |
Movie | Warpath | Pvt. 'Irish' Potts | 1951-11-22 |
Movie | Dakota Lil | Carter | 1950-02-17 |
Movie | The Furies | Scotty Hyslip | 1950-08-16 |
Movie | Harvey | The Taxi Driver | 1950-12-04 |
Movie | The Breaking Point | F.R. Duncan | 1950-10-06 |
Movie | The Set-Up | Gus | 1949-03-29 |
Movie | Red Stallion In The Rockies | 'Talky' Carson | 1949-05-02 |
Movie | Shed No Tears | Sam Grover | 1948-06-09 |
Movie | The Man from Texas | Jed | 1948-03-06 |
Movie | Coroner Creek | Andy West | 1948-07-01 |
Movie | Embraceable You | Police Lt. Ferria | 1948-08-21 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Belle Starr's Daughter | Lafe Bailey | 1948-11-13 |
Movie | Dead Reckoning | McGee | 1947-01-16 |
Movie | Magic Town | Lou Dicketts | 1947-10-07 |
Movie | T-Men | The Schemer | 1947-12-15 |
Movie | Lover Come Back | Tubbs | 1946-06-21 |
Movie | A Guy Could Change | Bill Conley | 1946-01-27 |
Movie | The Green Years | Jamie Nigg | 1946-07-04 |
Movie | Rendezvous with Annie | Al Morgan | 1946-07-22 |
Movie | Crack-Up | Lt. Cochrane | 1946-09-06 |
Movie | Black Angel | Joe | 1946-08-02 |
Movie | The Great John L. | McManus | 1945-05-25 |
Movie | Blood on the Sun | Ollie Miller | 1945-04-26 |
Movie | On Stage Everybody | Emmett Rogers | 1945-07-13 |
Movie | Spellbound | Hotel masher | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | Secret Command | Miller | 1944-07-30 |
Movie | Machine Gun Mama | John O'Reilly | 1944-08-18 |
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 | All Through the Night | Spats Hunter | 1942-01-10 |
Movie | Inside the Law | Billy | 1942-05-08 |
Movie | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Wally Collins | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | The Mummy's Tomb | Babe Hanson | 1942-10-23 |
Movie | A Man Betrayed | Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) | 1941-03-07 |
Movie | Roar of the Press | Wally Williams | 1941-04-17 |
Movie | Blues in the Night | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | 1941-11-15 |
Movie | Murder by Invitation | Bob White | 1941-06-30 |
Movie | Isle Of Destiny | Millard Barnes | 1940-03-08 |
Movie | Two Girls on Broadway | Jed Marlowe | 1940-04-19 |
Movie | Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! | Joe Redmond | 1940-06-07 |
Movie | The Mummy's Hand | Babe Jenson | 1940-09-20 |
Movie | Scatterbrain | Sam Maxwell | 1940-07-20 |
Movie | Give Us Wings | Mr. York | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Frankie Rogers | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | Swing It, Sailor! | Pete Kelly | 1938-02-04 |
Movie | Stardust | Peter Jackson | 1938-03-25 |
Movie | The Marines Come Thru | Pvt. 'Singapore' Stebbins | 1938-08-04 |
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 | Two in the Dark | Harry Hilyer | 1936-01-10 |
Movie | Absolute Quiet | Jack | 1936-04-24 |
Movie | The Rogues' Tavern | Jimmy Kelly | 1936-06-04 |
Movie | In Spite of Danger | Bob Crane | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | The Nut Farm | Willie Barton | 1935-03-24 |
Movie | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Jason H. 'Jay' Barton | 1935-01-25 |
Movie | One Frightened Night | Joe Luvalle | 1935-05-01 |
Movie | The Whole Town's Talking | Healy | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | "Fingers" Boston | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | The Informer | Frankie McPhillip | 1935-05-09 |
Movie | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Harper | 1935-11-15 |
Movie | Another Face | Joe Haynes, Press Agent | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | Get That Man | Jack Kirkland / John Prescott | 1935-07-10 |
Movie | The Lost Patrol | Morelli | 1934-02-16 |
Movie | A Woman's Man | Joe Flynn - Prizefighter | 1934-02-06 |
Movie | Men in White | Shorty | 1934-04-06 |
Movie | I Hate Women | Scoop McGuire | 1934-05-10 |
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 | The Big Cage | Russ Penny | 1933-05-01 |
Movie | Employees' Entrance | Martin West | 1933-02-11 |
Movie | Headline Shooter | Mike | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | Night of Terror | Tom Hartley | 1933-04-23 |
Movie | Three-Cornered Moon | Kenneth Rimplegar | 1933-08-08 |
Movie | Goodbye Again | Arthur Westlake | 1933-09-09 |
Movie | East of Fifth Avenue | Vic Howard | 1933-11-28 |
Movie | My Woman | Chick Rollins | 1933-10-04 |
Movie | Are You Listening? | Larry Barnes | 1932-03-21 |
Movie | Freaks | Phroso | 1932-02-12 |
Movie | The Beast of the City | Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | 1932-02-13 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Jerry Tyler | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Skyscraper Souls | Slim | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | Hypnotized | Bill Bogard | 1932-12-25 |
Movie | Central Park | Rick | 1932-12-10 |
Movie | Possessed | Al Manning | 1931-11-21 |
Movie | X Marks the Spot | Ted Lloyd | 1931-12-13 |
Movie | Married in Hollywood | Mitzi's Fan (uncredited) | 1929-09-22 |