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Wallace Ford
Known for: ActingWallace 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.
Filmography 54
The Deputy
as Marshal Herk Lamson 
The Man from Laramie
as Charley O'Leary 
The Matchmaker
as Malachi Stack 
Destry
as Doc Curtis 
Spellbound
as Stranger in Hotel Lobby 
Dead Reckoning
as McGee 
Shadow of a Doubt
+2
as Fred Saunders 
Magic Town
as Lou Dicketts 
Freaks
+1
as Phroso 
Harvey
+2
as The Taxi Driver 
T-Men
as The Schemer 
Warlock
as Judge Holloway 
A Patch of Blue
+1
as Ole Pa 
The Furies
as Scotty Hyslip 
3 Ring Circus
as Sam Morley 
The Set-Up
as Gus 
The Rainmaker
+1
as Sheriff Howard Thomas 
The Mummy's Hand
as Babe Jenson 
The Lost Patrol
+1
as Morelli 
All Through the Night
as Spats Hunter 
He Ran All the Way
as Fred Dobbs 
A Lawless Street
+2
as Dr. Amos Wynn 
Wichita
+1
as Arthur Whiteside 
The Last Hurrah
+1
as Charlie Hennessey 
The Breaking Point
as F.R. Duncan 
The Whole Town's Talking
as Healy 
Blues in the Night
+1
as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) 
Possessed
as Al Manning 
Blood on the Sun
+3
as Ollie Miller 
The Mummy's Tomb
+1
as Babe Hanson 
Crack-Up
as Lt. Cochrane 
The Beast of the City
as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick 
The Informer
as Frankie McPhillip 
Black Angel
as Joe 
Warpath
+1
as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts 
The Spoilers
as Flapjack Simms 
A Man Betrayed
as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter) 
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Lafe Bailey 
Men in White
as Shorty 
Shed No Tears
as Sam Grover 
The Cross of Lorraine
as Pierre 
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
+3
as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton 
O.H.M.S.
as Jimmy Tracy 
Lucy Gallant
as Gus Basserman 
Back Door to Heaven
as Frankie Rogers 
The Man from Texas
as Jed 
The Great Jesse James Raid
as Elias Hobbs 
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
as Sam Parks 
Night of Terror
as Tom Hartley 
Flesh and Fury
as Jack 'Pop' Richardson 
The Ape Man
+3
as Jeff Carter 
Roar of the Press
as Wally Williams 
A Woman's Man
as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter