Wallace Ford
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1898-02-11 – 1966-06-11
Place of birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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 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.
Known for
Spellbound
1945Hotel masher
Black Angel
1946Joe
Dead Reckoning
1946McGee
The Beast of the City
1932Detective Ed Fitzpatrick
Shadow of a Doubt
1943Fred Saunders
The Mummy's Hand
1940Babe Jenson
A Man Betrayed
1941Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
He Ran All the Way
1951Fred Dobbs
Blues in the Night
1941Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
A Patch of Blue
1965Ole Pa
Crack-Up
1946Lt. Cochrane
T-Men
1947The Schemer
The Furies
1950Scotty Hyslip
The Mummy's Tomb
1942Babe Hanson
One Frightened Night
1935Joe Luvalle
All Through the Night
1942Spats Hunter
A Lawless Street
1955Dr. Amos Wynn
Johnny Concho
1956Albert Dark
Coroner Creek
1948Andy West